Renovate the Data Center
€69.98
(Excl. 21% tax)
- 33% of enterprises will be undertaking facility upgrades or refreshes in 2010 aimed at extending the life of their existing data centers.
- Every upgrade or refresh targeting specific components in the facility to address short-term pain will have significant impact on the data center environment as a whole. Planning upfront and establishing a clear project scope will minimize expensive changes in later years.
- This solution set will provide you with step-by-step design, planning, and selection tools to define a Data Center renovation plan to reduce cost and risk while supporting cost-effective long-term growth for power, cooling, standby power, and fire protection renovations.
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Critical Insight
- 88% of organizations cited they would spend more time and effort on documenting and identifying facility requirements for initial project scoping. Organizations can prevent scope creep by conducting the necessary project planning up front and identify requirements and the effect that the renovation project will have in all areas of the data center facility.
- Data Center facilities renovations must include the specific requirements related to power provisioning, stand-by power, cooling, and fire protection - not just the immediate short-term pain.
- 39% of organizations cited they would put more emphasis on monitoring contractor management and performance to improve the outcome of the data center renovation project.
Impact and Result
- Early internal efforts to create a budget and facility requirements yields better cost and project outcomes when construction begins. Each data center renovation project is unique and should have its own detailed budget.
- Upfront planning and detailed project scoping can prevent a cascading impact on data center renovation projects to other areas of the data center that can increase project size, scope and spend.
- Contractor selection is one of the most important first steps in a complex data center renovation. Organizations must ensure the contractor selected has experience specifically in data center renovation.
Renovate the Data Center Research & Tools
Besides the small introduction, subscribers and consulting clients within this management domain have access to:
1. Identify and understand the renovation project.
- Storyboard: Renovate the Data Center
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- Data Center Annual Review Checklist
2. Renovate power in the data center.
- Data Center Power Requirements Calculator
3. Renovate cooling in the data center.
- Data Center Cooling Requirements Calculator
4. Renovate standby power in the data center.
- Data Center Standby Power Requirements Calculator
5. Define current and future fire protection requirements.
- Fire Protection & Suppression Engineer Selection Criteria Checklist
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6. Assess the opportunities and establish a clear project scope.
- Data Center Renovation Project Charter
- Data Center Renovation Project Planning & Monitoring Tool
7. Establish a budget for the data center renovation project.
- Data Center Renovation Budget Tool
8. Select a general contractor to execute the project.
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- Data Center Renovation Contractor Scripted Interview
- Data Center Renovation Contractor Scripted Interview Scorecard
- Data Center Renovation Contractor Reference Checklist