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Data Center Services
According to a 2007 Gartner Group study, more than 70% of the Global 1000 organizations will either need to move or significantly modify their data center facilities over the next five years. The most common motivation for this activity are growth limitations regarding power, cooling, space and lease restrictions.
| Area | Issue | Alternatives |
| Power |
Facilities lack sufficient power to
upgrade to high density server and
storage systems.
For example, when 200 watts of power per sq. ft. are
required and only 100 are available,
vertical space will be wasted. |
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Recover Power |
| Cooling |
Few computer rooms were designed for the constant AC loads of a modern, high density data center. A point of diminishing returns is quickly reached where increased cooling is prohibitively expensive and inefficient. |
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Recover Cooling |
| Space |
Many existing data centers were constructed in traditional, expensive office space. These facilities lack the floor to ceiling height required to cool and exhaust modern data centers efficiently and cannot be retrofitted. |
Often growth and/or migration to high density systems are blocked and only solution is to optimize while you search for a new facility. |
| Lease |
A leased facility may be reaching the end of its useful life (insufficient power, cooling and space) rendering it unsuitable for current and future use. |
Optimize (recover space, power and cooling) while seeking long term options. |
With broad experience including half a million square feet of data center optimizations, designs, construction, consolidation and relocations - TDS helps companies smoothly navigate these "data center transitions".
TDS can operate as an extension of your team providing advice and oversight for key projects, or take on full turnkey responsibilities - whichever is appropriate.
Optimizations: There are several short term techniques that will extend the useful life of your facility which are transparent to IT operations. In most cases, no costly, time consuming and risky server upgrades and virtualization efforts necessary.
Design / Build: As you maximize your current facility, you will have time to conduct a thorough analysis and develop and optimum migration plan to a new facility. TDS can help you in all facets from site selection, lease vs. build decision, and design / construction if appropriate.
Consolidation / Relocation: A data center relocation is often a "once in a career" event and not a good place for on-the-job learning. When your new facility is ready, we can assure a smooth and seamless transition. TDS has relocated dozens of corporate data centers of all sizes - including tens of thousands of servers and related equipment.
Decommission: Return your old data center space to prior use (or new use)
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Five Steps
to
Successful Data Center Relocation
On the Web
TDS
CEO Michael Bullock writes a
weekly feature in the
Data Center Drill Down
section of CIO.com.
The 5 Pitfalls of Data Center Consolidation
Oregon's
Nightmare
MP3 from WFED Radio
Track Record
TDS has planned and relocated over a hundred data centers of all sizes including Monster.com, Boston Red Sox and others.
We have recently built over 100,000 sq. ft. of Tier 3 space for under $10K per KW.
These companies rely on TDS as an extension to their core IT operations and staff: