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Creating an effective workspace environment
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Benefits of the DIO Data Centre Blueprint
The DIO selected specialist data centre design and build contractor
Workspace Technology Ltd, working in partnership with Carillion
Amey, to provide them with the DIO’s Next Generation Data Centre
that will be used as the design blueprint for all forthcoming data
centre projects.
Key added value benefits of the DIO’s Blueprint for Data Centre
Infrastructure includes:-
Standardised Model
– Creation of a Core Standardised
Design to suit all environments
Energy Efficient
– Maximise IT Energy Efficiency by Producing a
Facility which Delivers Industry Leading Power Usage
Effectiveness (PUE) Levels
Resilient
– Redundancy and Resilience built to ensure system
availability
Secure
– Physical & Electronic Security Built in
Adaptable, Scalable & Re-Deployable
– To Allow the Facility to
Grow & Expand in line with IT Demands over its entire Lifetime
Rapidly Deployable
– Decreases the Time Taken to Deploy a
New Facility through the use of Modular Architecture
Real-time & Remotely Manageable
– Deliver a System which
Displays Real-time Facility Statistics and Grants Remote Access
to Cleared Operational Personnel
Easily Maintainable
– Ease of access to services combined
with the incorporation of Modular Hot Swappable Technology
Greenhouse Gas Efficient
– Maximise Carbon Emissions
Reduction through deployment of energy efficient infrastructure
Cost Effective
– Maximising Investment to Reduce OPEX and
CAPEX Costs and Provides accelerated ROI