Computer Room & Data Centre

The computer room and Data Centre can be compared to the human body.

Like the body, while having healthy vital organs (servers, storage, networking and software applications) is of paramount importance, without the means to encapsulate these vital organs in a way that allows them to function in unison, and deliver the oxygen needed for your business to survive, ultimately the business will suffer from illness, whether short term or long term.

It is therefore vital that consideration is given to the environment in which your vital organs function and, like anyone maintaining a healthy lifestyle, we must reassess our needs on an ongoing basis in light of changes to the internal and external environment.


There are many challenges that require consideration and we have listed just a few below:

• Increased CPU cores = increased power consumption = increased heat output.
• Higher density computing (Blades) can increase power demand and create localised environmental issues such as hot spots in the computer room, leading to intermittent over-heating and loss of service.
• Companies rarely refresh the cabinets in which equipment is located and outdated door design and venting can further exacerbate the high power and heat output challenges presented by new technology.
• High performance application requirements need higher disk I/O and reduced latency, which are typically addressed by simply adding more disk arrays. This creates further space, heat and cooling demands on the environment.
• With increased equipment, or higher density computing supporting virtualised environments, are your key resources still adequately protected from power loss?

Brighter Connections have experience in this area of IT. We have relationships within the industry with experts who have a detailed knowledge which complements our own experience. This will help address your needs both proactively and reactively.

Whether you are looking at a refresh of existing facilities, planning brand new facilities or looking to reactively address some localised issues in this area, get in touch! We are waiting to assist you.