FOCUS AWARDS FEATURE
Issue 2, February 2009
at full load, compared with a typical legacy design (PUE 2).
Finalists
BT DATA CENTRE LEEDS, WITH BDP AND SELECT DATA CENTRE FACILITIES
Completed on time and within budget in August 2008, the center is configured as a Tier II data center, with key Tier III enhancements (introducing flexibility to transparently upgrade to a full Tier III facility in the future with zero disruption and downtime).
The facility provides 1,000m² of enhanced Tier II space to house 400 data racks and a working environment for 90 BT staff and BT end-customer employees. The data center currently has 15 circuits, 67 network devices, 530 physical/virtual servers, eight bridge positions and 50kms of cabling.
The center achieves new standards in energy
efficiency presenting >20% reduction in CO2 in comparison with other similar facilities.
FUJITSU LONDON NORTH DATA CENTRE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RED ENGINEERING DESIGN (Winner of the Innovation in the Mega Data Center Award – see above)
GIB ZURICH DATA CENTRE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH IBM SWITZERLAND AG
IBM built a new energy-efficient green data center at a former military bunker outside of Zurich. The data center is a highly secure data storage facility, where GIB will support its clients in Switzerland, and will offer a first-of-its-kind energy model, where a direct heat exchange will take place between the data center and a public swimming pool in the town.
Located in Uitikon, Switzerland, the data center is expected to create 2,800MWh of wasted heat per year when operating at full capacity – the same amount of energy needed to supply up to 80 houses with heating and warm water for one year. In order to repurpose some of this previously wasted energy, the town is looking to the needs of local civilians – ensuring a comfortable temperature for swimming in the town pool.
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YOUNG MISSION CRITICAL ENGINEER
Winner: Greg Metcalf, ARUP Sponsor: Cnet Training
operation of the global data center portfolio.
The firm recognised that by integrating data center FM and IT functions globally into a brand new multidisciplinary team, it could realise its strategic and operational objectives, improve synergies, service levels and resiliency, as well as reduce costs.
Morgan Stanley has formed long-term partnerships with its primary vendors; Norland Managed Services (M&E solutions) and Redstone Converged Solutions (IT infrastructure installations) across both locations. This cross- site vendor consolidation and management has great benefits, not least in reducing and controlling the total cost of ownership.
Cnet’s MD Andrew Stephens congratulates Greg Metcalf of Arup (centre)
Greg Metcalf was part of Arup’s graduate intake in 2006, and has subsequently become an invaluable member of the Buildings London team that specialises in Mission Critical Facilities.
OPERATIONAL TEAM OF THE YEAR
Winner: Morgan Stanley, in partnership with Norland Managed Services and Redstone Converged Solutions Sponsor: CB Richard Ellis
A key feature is that there is always backup to provide additional help, domain-specific expertise and specialist skills to cover for peak workloads, operational incidents and also provide roaming holiday and sickness cover at all levels and disciplines 24/7.
The enlarged team from both sites are able to assist each other and transfer assistance from one site to the other through common policies and operations procedures, a common radio system that is stretched across both sites and access to each other’s BMS systems.
All team members have access to the common policies and procedures, as well as the site and equipment-specific operations manuals through a SharePoint Site. Problems and incidents will always occur at data centers, but it is the timely and expert remediation of these problems that distinguishes the excellent from the ordinary.
Finalists
BSKYB DATA CENTRE MANAGEMENT TEAM SENTRUM UK OPERATIONS TEAM
Morgan Stanley’s Vijay Mistry collects the award from CB RIchard Ellis MD Andrew Jay
Morgan Stanley formed its global Enterprise data centers (EDC) group to bring together the core skillsets of the traditional corporate service and IT functions to work as one team with single-point accountability for the
DIGITAL REALTY TRUST DUBLIN OPERATIONS TEAM MORE INFORMATION
Entries for the Data Centre Awards 2009 will open on 1 July. For further information on categories and entries, contact
ambrose.mcnevin@
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