Data Center Planners

Today’s data centers change at a rapid rate in order to meet the IT needs that are brought upon them by the business requirements.  This change brings on a new set of challenges for the personnel that must maintain the facility critical infrastructure.  With every new server, switch, or storage device that is added or moved, a change is caused in the critical infrastructure that supports the IT equipment.  These changes if not checked periodically, can cause problems that can lead to failure or even downtime.

DCP's data center assessment will assess the ability of the critical infrastructure that supports the IT equipment.  DCP will supply you with the information necessary to manage your facilities for optimum performance, extend the life of your hardware, and ensure the highest level of availability.

A comprehensive data center assessment will analyze your existing infrastructure with the goal of insuring maximum reliability and availability of your critical systems,  including a site inspection, an evaluation of the load capacity constraints, identification of critical deficiencies and potential downtime risks, an assessment of the concurrent maintenance capacity of the site, recommendations for improvements, and a comparison to the identified business objectives for the intended use of the space.

During the assessment DCP will collect data pertaining to:

• Power and Power distribution
• Cooling and cooling distribution 
• Critical infrastructure capacity and utilization
• Environment and building conditions
• Outside factors that could cause issues

Data centers are facilities that house computer servers, data storage systems, and telecommunications equipment. To ensure that these computer systems operate reliably, they must be adequately cooled: The airflow requirement of each server rack must be met, in order to maintain the rack inlet air temperatures within acceptable range. 

Often the design and analyzing practices for data center cooling are based on empirical guidelines and prior experiences. These practices do not consider the complex fluid dynamic processes that control the airflow and temperature distribution. Consequently, they lead to inefficient and ineffective data centers. In addition to the CFD analysis, TSC can also perform an energy analysis of existing and proposed data center layouts.

DCP’s TileFlow CFD analysis can:

• Confirm suspected hot spots within an existing data center
• Confirm cooling capacity for new IT equipment deployment
• Simulate new layouts of CRAC units and IT equipment for vary kW/ Rack 
• Model CRAC unit failures and their corresponding impact on IT loads without effective data center enviorment

The key to designing and analyzing an optimally cooled data center is a good understanding of the airflow patterns and temperature distribution in the data center. This is best achieved through computer modeling of the fluid flow and thermal processes, that is, by computer simulation of the cooling performance of the data center.

Let a DCP service professional accurately determine your data center cooling potential with the use of TileFlow.  From a 1000 square feet facility to a 100,000 square foot facility, DCP trained professionals can assess you cooling capacities and help make recommendations for new IT deployments. 

Project Management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources in such a way that these resources deliver all the work required to complete a project within defined scope, quality, time, and cost constraints. A project is a temporary and one-time endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service that brings about beneficial change or added value. Project management requires varying technical skills and philosophy, hence the necessity for project management.  DCP’s personnel can fulfill these project process objectives so that your company’s project is on time and on budget. 

TSC realizes the importance of proper project manangement to the success of your project in meeting your business strategy.  The scope of work includes the following key elements susccessful to the proper completion of any project, especially with the high sensitivity of data center work.

      a. General Project Management Services

      b. Project Quality Control

      c. Project Scheduling

      d. Project Contract Close-out

These services are directed at the specific data center equipment supplied by each manufacturer and software purchased by the client and the planned site deployment.  TSC relies on proven process to ensure that the project will be constructed in a smooth and correct manner.

TSC is pleased to provided project management services necessary to assure that the inherent reliablity of the systems selected is achieved in teh execution of the construction and installation process, thereby contributing to the highest availablity of the data center.