Case Study: New Greenfield Data Center for Research Lab

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Greenfield Stand-Alone Primary Edge Data Center

As the General Contractor for a research laboratory, PTS Data Center Solutions  addressed the issue of an aging data center that was pushing the limits of the existing support infrastructure.  We provided construction and commissioning services, and built an efficient, new greenfield data center in one year. PTS will provide ongoing support for this project for the next 10 years.

Project Details: 

  • Address Aging & Capacity Constrained Supporting Infrastructure
  • Increase space, power, and cooling capacity
  • Build new Greenfield Data Center
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Situation

  • Aging primary data center
  • Operating at the power and cooling limits of existing supporting infrastructure

Impact

  • Increased Risk & Cost​
  • Increased risk of downtime to operations as a result of higher failure rates​
  • Out of space, power & cooling​
  • Increased operational costs due to increased scheduled and unscheduled maintenance​

Resolution

  • Construction of a LEED Gold Data Center
  • Improved efficiency with a PUE of 1.4
  • The ability to support the mission of securing extremely sensitive data
  • Increased reliability from Tier I to a new Tier III with Tier IV Attributes
  • PTS provided construction services and continues to provide 10 years of ongoing support

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You shouldn’t have to compromise when it comes to your facility. Our expert team assesses your unique needs, and then employs a proven plan that reduces the amount of support infrastructure you will need.

The result is higher efficiency, reduced complexity and better resiliency at lower cost… all at the same time.

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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