Case Study: Data Center Renovation/Maintenance Management

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PTS has a long history of working closely with a large retailer-owned cooperative.  For this particular project, we focused on a data center renovation to address the increased risk and cost associated with aging (and capacity-constrained) support infrastructure. The primary data center was to remain operational throughout upgrades and renovations.

Highlights:

  • Increased overall data center reliability from a Tier II to a Tier III with Tier IV attributes
  • Improved power usage by ~20%
  • Rebuilt the supporting NOC (80,000 sf) and surrounding office space
  • Replaced legacy cooling with higher efficiency solutions
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Situation

  • Aging & capacity-constrained supporting infrastructure
  • 20-year-old primary stand-alone data center to remain operational through upgrade and renovations
  • Operating at the power and cooling limits of existing supporting infrastructure

Impact

  • Increased risk of downtime to operations as a result of higher failure rates
  • Out of power & cooling capacity to support the strategic growth
  • Increased operational costs due to inefficiency and unscheduled maintenance

Resolution

  • Site alternatives were ruled out due to costs and desire to operate own data center
  • Phased construction tackled hardest issues first, sequentially building for next phases
  • Complete replacement of all critical and emergency power systems
  • Replacement of legacy cooling with higher-efficiency solutions
  • Layout the data center into rows for phased IT migrations
  • Increase the data center overall RLU density to allow the overall footprint to shrink 40%
  • Rebuild the supporting NOC and office space around the data center  (80,000 sq ft)
  • Efficiency improved +20% and reliability increased from Tier II to Tier III w/Tier IV Attributes

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Situation

  • Have two (2) aging edge data centers, some colocation, & some cloud
  • On-premises infrastructure needs have been shrinking
  • Increased risk of downtime to operations because of higher failure rates
  • Increased operational costs due to increased scheduled and unscheduled maintenance
  • Wasted and unused IT space

Resolution

  • Improved hybrid data center strategy leveraging previous investments
  • Designed and built new edge data center in the mixed-use facility using repurposed adjacent space
  • Refreshed the 18-floor IDF stack

Outcome

  • Updated the strategic plan for data center operations
  • New, reliable, resilient, primary edge data center in the mixed-use facility