WHY BUILD A SERVER ROOM, WHEN YOU CAN SIMPLY WHEEL ONE IN?
Your server room is the heart of your business, it is the gateway to the cloud and the home of your data centre, which is in turn the hub that connects all your devices to your data, in order for you to leverage the Internet of Things( IoT) in your business.
Until recently, a server room has been a static environment that, because of requirements such as cooling, fire, and surge protection, as well as environmental monitoring, has had to be a permanent fixture in your office – with its own square meterage and special set of security and climate control systems. But that it no longer the case with a Data Centre in a Box( DCIB) solution from Netshield – an entire server room on wheels.
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Inus Dreckmeyr CEO
Netshield
According to Inus Dreckmeyr, CEO at Netshield South Africa, a local original equipment manufacturer( OEM) subsidiary of WestconGroup Southern Africa, your business can now have its own IoT-ready“ server room on wheels” at an affordable price. The perfect solution for remote offices, mid-sized businesses, and companies who may need to“ up and move” on a regular basis as a result of being a truly mobile enterprise.
“ Netshield’ s IP54-rated Data Centre in a Box( DCIB) is a completely self-contained, stand-alone server room that can be wheeled into your offices and deployed within minutes,” Dreckmeyr explains.“ The DCIB takes away the onerous task of having to set up and deploy a server room from scratch as it houses all the components you need to manage a traditional server room environment – in a modular and mobile unit. Think of a server room on wheels- the DCIB is exactly that.”
The DCIB is fully kitted out with an access control keypad, electronic locking, central Simple Network Management Protocol( SNMP) management and control device with dashboard, temperature monitor, flooding detection, an application-specific air conditioner and UPS, as well as optional humidity monitor, smoke and fire detectors, and extinguishers. It is a complete movable asset for a company.
“ Importantly, the DCIB can be built to your business’ s exact requirements. In short, it is a stand-alone server room for which you can cherry-pick security and monitoring modules based on your business needs. All of which you can then control from a single IP address,” says Dreckmeyr.“ Only qualified users will be given access to the server room, and can do so onsite or remotely by way of a simple click-through interface that provides a dashboard summary of the exact alerts and statuses of a selected device within the DCIB.”
The true benefit of the DCIB is that it strips away the need for a host of costly technical skills to build and deploy the infrastructure required in a server room. Furthermore, it reduces the time to operation – as you can wheel it in and get set up and working straight away, and it eliminates the costs associated with a dedicated server room that takes up expensive square metres.
“ As a result of Netshield being part of WestconGroup Southern Africa, you can further tailor you DCIB to include a host of additional technologies – such as a wireless bay station, networking switches, patch panels, data blades, and any other technologies available through the company. We will preconfigure your DCIB and then set it up for you onsite. If you have multiple satellite branches that require their own server room, but you don’ t have the IT resources to manage each environment, then the DCIB is the perfect solution for you. It is secure and quick to deploy and access to the equipment it houses is only afforded to approved and certified personnel at any given point,” Dreckmeyr ends. ■
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