Data Center Consultants: Providing Key Services for Data Center Projects

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Data Center Consultants

• Providing Key Services for Data Center Projects

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Data Center Consultants

• Data center consultants are often brought into a
  project to ensure the highest return on
  investment. Planning, designing, building or
  expanding a data center is complicated,
  time-intensive and expensive. Therefore, many
  companies want data center design and build
  experts on their team to help ensure a successful
  project outcome.

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Data Center Consultants

• Well qualified data center consultants will have
  managed the design and building of hundreds of
  facilities and have decades of experience. They
  can assist with all the major components of a
  data center project. Specifically, consultants
  can provide expertise in the following areas
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• Pre-Design and Planning
• Facility Design
• Project Management
• Owners Representative

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Data Center Consultants

• Pre-Design and Planning Services for Data Center
  Projects
• Data center consultants can help make sure
  projects get off to a good start. As with all
  types of projects, successful results depend on
  strong planning efforts upfront. Given the
  complexities involved with data center projects,
  companies cant afford to re-do work because it
  wasnt completed properly the first time.
  Therefore, planning helps ensure work is done
  correctly from the beginning.

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Data Center Consultants

• Proper planning typically involves the following
  tasks
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• Determining appropriate systems availability
  levels.
• Estimating cost exposures and risk levels.
• Providing detailed site evaluations and selection
  processes.
• Identifying potential weaknesses in backup
  programs.
• Evaluating future expansion opportunities.

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Data Center Consultants

• Data center consultants can help companies
  balance many aspects of data center performance
  to optimize resources. For example, a trade-off
  exists between around-the-clock availability and
  operating costs. In other words, increased
  reliability and availability result in greater
  costs from capital investments and regular
  maintenance.
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• Many companies require the expertise of data
  center consults to help determine the costs of
  downtime compared to the costs of accommodating
  greater availability. This information helps
  companies make better decisions about how best to
  build out a data center for their particular
  requirements.

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Data Center Consultants

• Facility Design for Data Center Projects
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• The focus on todays data center designs is
  energy efficiency and scalability. Data centers
  incorporate complex power, cooling, security,
  fire suppression and monitoring systems. These
  systems must operate in way that keeps costs in
  check, but also can accommodate future growth.
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• During facility design, data center consultants
  keep focused on the projects budget and
  schedule. All subsequent phases of the project
  will be dependent on the design specifications.
  Therefore, its critical all aspects of the
  project are defined in the design work.

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Data Center Consultants

• Project Management for Data Center Projects
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• Project management is one of the many benefits
  of bringing data center consultants on board.
  Through professional project management,
  consultants will coordinate vendors and
  contractors, manage the acquisition and
  installation of all equipment, coordinate
  deliveries and bring data the data center online
  when construction is completed.
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• Data center consultants will make sure
  everything within the data center is functioning
  according to specifications. Reputable
  consultants will also provide warranties on
  equipment they install, as well as guaranteed
  response levels.

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Data Center Consultants

• Given the huge investment owners make in data
  center facilities, securing expertise outside the
  organization is often a prudent strategy.
  Experienced data center consultants will focus on
  the details and help ensure projects are
  delivered on time and within budget.

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About the Author

• Arnie W. Evdokimo is Chief Executive Officer of
  DP Air Corporation, a leading provider of data
  center design, build and maintenance services
  based in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information
  about Data Center Consultants, visit
  http//www.DPAir.com today.