Background
A South African government agency needed to move to a new office building, which meant relocating not only its 1,700 staff members but also the organisation’s main 100kW data centre.
In tandem with the move, the organisation additionally wanted to take the opportunity to modernise the data centre and upgrade its supporting infrastructure. This data centre upgrade is part of the two facilities run by the client; one operational and the other focused on disaster recovery.
Results
- Despite significant site spacing constraints, the infrastructure was pre-built off-site to meet the challenging three-month completion window.
- The main data centre was unavailable for only 1.5 days in total, with zero official downtime, as the organisation’s mirror site was still accessible.
- The customer is now able to monitor critical infrastructure and manage environmental conditions within its data centre in real time.
- It is also capable of monitoring key infrastructure appliances, including UPS units, precision cooling units, generator sets and more.
- By using more redundant solutions, the entire site has also essentially been derisked.
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