Information technology is the life-blood of the organization. The goal of data center design is to deliver a design that integrates, 'best-of-breed', critical infrastructure technologies and results in a continuously available, scalable, redundant, fault-tolerant, manageable and maintainable mission critical environment.

Data Center Design starts with a thorough survey of the existing systems & facility. We then work with the IT & facility staff to identify & quantify project needs and develop an understanding of the trends and migrations strategies required to adapt to future changes. Finally, we develop a conceptual data center design from which construction budgets can be developed.

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The term data center has become ubiquitous with any physical space that safely and securely houses computing, data storage and networking equipment and provides adequate support infrastructure necessary for high-availability operation including, protecting & distributing power, controlling temperature & humidity and providing data/communication connectivity internally as well as outside the space.

In the strictest sense however, a data center is the culmination of multiple spaces including information technology spaces (computer rooms, telecommunications rooms, network operations centers, etc.) and non-information technology support spaces (electrical rooms, mechanical rooms, security rooms, conference rooms, personnel offices, storage rooms, lunch rooms, loading docks, staging areas, etc.)

The technology spaces can be further broken down into the entrance rooms, main distribution areas (MDA), horizontal distribution areas (HDA), zone distribution areas (ZDA) and equipment distribution areas (EDA).

The entrance room is the space used for the interface between data center structured cabling system and inter-building cabling, both carrier and customer-owned.

The main distribution area includes the main cross-connect (MC), which is the central point of distribution for the data center structured cabling system and may include horizontal cross- connect (HC) when equipment areas are served directly from the main distribution area. The main distribution area may serve one or more horizontal distribution areas or equipment distribution areas within the data center and one or more telecommunications rooms located outside the computer room space to support office spaces, operations center and other external support rooms.

The horizontal distribution area is used to serve equipment areas when the HC is not located in the main distribution area. Therefore, when used, the horizontal distribution area may include the horizontal cross-connect (HC), the distribution point for cabling to the equipment distribution areas. A typical data center will have several horizontal distribution areas.

The equipment distribution area (EDA) is the space allocated for end equipment, including computer systems and telecommunications equipment.

A computer room, also sometimes referred to as a collapsed data center, can consolidate the main cross-connect (MC), and the horizontal cross-connect (HC) in a single main distribution area, possibly as small as a single cabinet or rack. The telecommunications room for cabling to the support areas and the entrance room are also often consolidated into the main distribution area in a collapsed data center or computer room technology.

In data centers, the telecommunications room (TR) is a space that supports cabling to areas outside the computer room. The TR is normally located outside the computer room but, if necessary, it can be combined with the main distribution area or horizontal distribution areas.

The data center may support more than one telecommunications room if the areas to be served cannot be supported from a single telecommunications room.