FEATURE: DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS
“Siemon never fails to provide a
total solution when it comes to
quality, technical support, prompt
delivery and overall value.”
Furthermore, ACS wanted the facility to
be manned 24/7, therefore requiring not
only data centre white space but also
a full network operations centre (NOC),
office environment and associated
facilities to be available to its staff.
Solution
This was a considerable undertaking
and rather than going for a traditional
bricks and mortar construction, it was
felt that a modular prefabricated data
centre would offer a more scalable and
flexible solution. Pioneering Swedish
data centre specialist, Flexenclosure,
was invited to offer a proposal and
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Tomas Rahkonen, the company’s Chief
Technology Officer, comments, “Since
1989 we have specialised in designing
and deploying prefabricated data centre
buildings in some of the world’s most
extreme environments. Our brief from
ACS was not short of challenges, but we
were confident in our ability to deliver
exactly what the customer wanted.”
An example of one of the challenges
Flexenclosure faced was in the location
picked by ACS: a large greenfield site
in Benfica, which was ideal in terms of
space but had no existing infrastructure;
no water, power, telecoms connectivity
or even a road to reach the site.
“In such situations,” Jos Baart, Vice
President Sales & Marketing at
Flexenclosure explains, “Opting for a
prefabricated data centre provides
the fastest deployment option
combined with greater cost savings
on design, planning, construction and
infrastructure.” Flexenclosure’s eCentre
is a custom designed, prefabricated
data centre that is fast to deploy, energy
efficient and easy to expand. Rahkonen
says, “By prefabricating a data centre,
the building itself becomes as much
a component of the ‘machine’ as the
cabling, power units, cooling system and
the server racks. And this allows for the
full pre-integration and testing of all
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