Technical Strategy Consulting Services
Global Datacenter Solutions, LLC (GDS) can assist with strategy development to full deployment of your data center needs.
Data Center Strategy:
GDS can help you navigate through the ever changing data center market, assisting you find the best solutions for your needs today and for years to come. We understand power, space and how the various types of providers work and how they can meet your needs.
Needs Assessment:
GDS can thoroughly evaluate new and existing data centers. Working with your team we will investigate your critical power needs and consumption, cooling, security, site operations, equipment maintenance, room layout and design methodologies.
Evaluation of Data Center Requirements:
Whether you have one or 10,000 servers, if you require a robust and secure location to place your equipment, a number of choices await you. There are numerous factors that go into planning your new data center such as: current deployments, future expansion and growth plans, power utilization trends, security, network communications and redundancy requirements. Let GDS help you find the right solutions for your current and future needs.
Design and Planning:
We have done countless data center designs over the years and as technology has evolved and changed, we have ensured that our design standards stay at the cutting edge. Our design and planning services include the following: Rack/cabinet layout, branch circuit power layout, low voltage cabling design, carrier handoff's and much more. We work closely with your chosen hosting partner to ensure that the design is right for your application and remains within the limits of the facility.
Critical Infrastructure Planning:
GDS can assist with your current and future data center and network architecture configuration and provide system design recommendations. We will help identify and recommend solutions for immediate tactical issues in the data center and the network architecture, becoming your trusted advisor as your company continues to grow.
Program Management:
GDS can help you to project manage any data center related project that you are considering undertaking. With proven experience in all aspects of project management, we have undertaken the following types of assignments: Data center expansion and upgrades, relocations, consolidations, space and capacity planning, assistance with large deployments and core network upgrades.
Data Center Transition/Migration/Consolidation Management:
If you are a company faced with the move of a few servers, or an entire data center, you need a partner who will guide you through the transition to your new environment while also helping you to avoid costly mistakes and unnecessary downtime. Our proven methodology will keep your operations running with minimal downtime and disruption to your users. We will work alongside your staff to plan through each step of the move in tremendous levels of detail.
Build vs. Lease Analysis:
GDS will use proprietary advanced economic models together with the knowledge of today's build and construction costs, which includes the front and back-end operations requirements. This will provide a well balanced and responsible perspective, allowing your operations and financial teams to make well informed decisions.
Let us become your trusted advisors.
