Data Center Facilities
Facilities: Designing, Selecting and/or Building the Glass House
Whether you are planning on building a new data center, upgrading your existing facility or performing an engineering review, hiring qualified, experienced staff to support your construction or design efforts is critical to ensuring that your end results meet your availability requirements and stay within budget.
ICS has been a trusted partner for major data center construction and service projects that include the following key delivery items:
- Defining a corporate Data Center Strategy
- Defining IT requirements (space, power, cooling, availability, etc.)
- For sizing co-location requirements (ICS Co-lo Quick Specs)
- As input into the engineering and architecture plans for facility construction
- Development of engineering and architectural design requirements
- Financial analysis of options
- Infrastructure maintenance plans and integration testing
- Facility audits
- Data center inventory management
- Site selection support
- Risk and maintainability design and reviews with comparison against business objectives
- Recommendations to improve design and reduce risk
- Analysis and recommendations on trade-offs in support of budget decisions
Do You Have a Clear Plan?
Download our Sample Outline for a Data Center Strategy
Are You Considering a Co-lo?

Are you struggling to define requirements for co-location space?
ICS can help.