Consult

Data centre consultancy, audit and survey services

Workspace Technology provides clients with infrastructure and data centre consultancy, audit and planning services.

Consultancy

Our consultants provide professional advice on all aspects of the I.T Infrastructure including; Building Systems, Data Centre design, data centre consultancy, deployment, sizing, availability and a range of survey and audit services. The data centre consultancy service delivers baseline, capacity planning, performance enhancing and fault resolution information to the IT and facilities manager. This information is critical to aid strategic decision-making.

Workspace Technology provides data centre planning services associated with, relocation strategies, expansion capacity planning, and cabinet and server migration.

Workspace Technology’s Consult services can help I.T and Data Centre Managers:

  • Decreased system downtime
  • Increased productivity
  • Efficient use of current assets
  • Accurate baseline statistics
  • Enables the optimisation of the performance of the network and NCPI facility
  • Ensures maximum return on investment
  • Ensures the delivery of a consistently high quality of service to all networked users by identifying problems before they occur
  • Enables better informed I.T Infrastructure, Building Systems and Data Centre planning
  • Provides better information for the selection of new technologies
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Data Centre Audit & Data Centre Survey Services

Workspace Technology offers a range of data centre audit and data centre survey services. These services may be specified as a result of a Data Centre Audit or as part of a comprehensive Data Centre planned preventative maintenance and support package.

Our Audit & Survey services provide data centre and facilities managers with in-depth analysis of their data centre environment. A detailed list of services is outlined in the table below.

SERVICE DETAILS

Data Centre Audit

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The Data Centre Audit service is designed to provide a comprehensive review of the existing data centre or server room facility. This review is designed to help identify both good and bad practice and help clients reduce the risk of downtime.

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Electrical Thermal Imaging Survey

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Detailed thermal imaging survey of data centre electrical systems and equipment. This survey will help identify unseen faults on electrical systems which can cause expensive business downtime, damage, loss of data or risk from fire.

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Power Quality Survey

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A comprehensive Power Quality Survey & Analysis service is designed to help:-

  • Identify and quantify harmonic related problems
  • To investigate ‘flicker’, ‘sag’ and other phenomena
  • Confirm electricity supply voltage levels
  • To identify Power Factor levels
  • Check loads before planned changes to distribution
  • To record the data needed to assess G5/4-1 compliance

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Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) Assessment

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The PUE Assessment enables I.T and data centre managers to accurately benchmark the Power Usage Effectiveness** (PUE), Data Centre Infrastructure Efficiency** (DCiE) and usage of the server room environment through direct analysis of power and energy consumption.

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Airflow & Room Thermal Imaging Survey

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The Airflow and Thermal Imaging Survey enables data centre manager to identify problems with cooling capacity and airflow efficiency. The survey includes the following:-

  • Room assessment and layout plan.
  • Thermal imaging photos of each aisle and photographic images of each cabinet.
  • Air velocity pressure survey (airflow through each 600×600 vented floor tile).
  • Temperature and humidity check at low, medium and high levels on each aisle.
  • Flow & return temperature and humidity check on the air conditioning units.

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