Datacentre solutions including the critical power (UPS, battery packs, generators & PDUs), cooling, server racks, cabling and environmental monitoring products required in mission critical IT applications to protect servers and storage devices. The range of products can be used in comms rooms, server rooms and datacentres.
The infrastructure systems within a server room or data centre are classed as either critical, essential or non-essential. The three most common critical infrastructure systems are power, cooling and fire suppression, followed by environmental monitoring and security systems. Regular inspections and preventative maintenance are required to ensure that these infrastructure systems are reliable and available 24/7.
Temperature and humidity levels in data centres and server rooms are two of the most critical aspects to continuously monitor. For most small to medium sized facilities temperature-related issues cause almost 35% of facility downtime. In the UK we have seen an increase in demand for our server room monitoring solutions as organisations have moved to remote working and have fewer staff including IT and facilities engineers on site to respond to alarm conditions. Even with COVID-19 secure practices in place, it can also take more time to get remote service companies to respond when there is an emergency call out, leading to a greater reliance on internal resources.
A power outage is a break in the mains power supply which can last from milliseconds to minutes or even hours. In recent years the number of power outages recorded within Western Europe has increased. Momentary breaks in the electrical supply are increasing due to more severe and disruptive weather conditions, the switching of substations transformers, grid breakdowns and a rising demand for electricity. Demand for electricity continues to rise as economies decarbonise and move to electric transportation whilst also introducing more power from renewables. This is in addition to an increasing dependence on data centre services fuelled by Edge and 5G connectivity.
An EDC or Edge Data Centre is a self-contained data centre or micro data centre connected to a primary or hyperscale data centre. The configuration is designed to reduce latency in terms of data processing and service delivery to the end user. The EDC is nearer to the end users being served by the data centre and provides a faster and more tailored service for those users than would be achieved via direct connection to the primary or hyperscale data centre.
We are a manufacturer independent systems integrator and support the critical infrastructure solutions we supply as well as take on other third party supplied datacentre systems for maintenance and refurbishment. For those instances where we do not have a suitably qualified and manufacturer trained engineer, we maintained an approved sub-contractor team.
In many ways Server Room Environments works as a systems integrator bringing together separate solutions into a combined solution for a client project. Solutions can range from power protection related items like uninterruptible power supplies to rack cabinets, cooling and environmental monitoring solutions.
