Alethe is uniquely qualified to help businesses assess their data center and identify infrastructure risks, provide recommendations for improvement and offer accurate project cost estimation and guidance throughout a new Data Center design & implementation.

Alethe designs Data Center solutions that protect against some of the leading causes of downtime, hardware damage, data loss, and decreased productivity. Alethe sets the standard for 'always' available solutions for data centers, server rooms, network operations centers, and other mission critical facilities. Alethe Consulting focus & provide consultancy services on the following aspects of the Data Center Design

Data Center Strategy Consulting

In data center strategy consulting we follow with a thorough survey of the existing systems and facilities. Our Consultants use innovative tools and software with professional expertise to help improve data centre performance, reduce energy consumption and to help companies avoid additional capital expenditures Following are the deliverables of Data Center Strategy Consulting Services:

• Reviews business and IT needs and recommend number and location of Data centers
• Incorporates business continuity plans for mission critical application
• Recommends ways to improve IT capacity management using strategies such as virtualization or outsourcing to hosting providers
• Financial data provided to show cost/benefit tradeoffs for different approaches

Data center Design and Build Services

A good plan is critical for a successful data center design project. The data center design process starts with our client's management staff determining the business's data center objectives and availability requirements. We then work with the IT staff and the facility staff to identify and quantify the data center project needs and combine them with our understanding of the trends and migrations strategies required to adapt to future changes. Finally, we develop a conceptual data center design from which we develop construction budgets and schedules. Following are the deliverables of Data center Design & Build Consulting Services:

Data center Design

• Designing a Data center in multiple tier architecture to host web services, applications & databases.
• Optimize existing Data center facilities by addressing floor layout, un-utilized capacity, cooling & power concepts
• Employs modular design concepts to efficiently accommodate the needs of today with the ability to grow or shrink in any direction
• Advises on use of energy efficient equipment and green building design concepts

Data center Build

Our consultants can help organizations in conceptualizing the physical design of the data center & using their vast experience can give valuable inputs in the physical readiness of the Data centers and Server Rooms that integrate, ' BEST-of-BREED ', critical infrastructure technologies, it includes the following deliverables:

• Pre-Implementation Audit
• Project Management & supervision of the Data center construction vendor
• Data center implementation services which include equipment installation, configuration and readiness services
• Recommendations for interim solutions while your data center is being built
• Site readiness audit
• Post Implementation Audit
• Site AS-IS Report
• GAP Analysis
• Report on how to bridge the GAP
• Technology Audit

Migration & Relocation Services

Alethe helps customers consolidate facilities and migrate hundreds or thousands of servers and applications to reduce the numbers of data centre they need to run their business

• AS IS Study of all the Data Center assets including  Server, Network Devices, Storage, LAN & FC cabling & Applications
• Documenting Hostnames & IP address of all the Servers
• Documenting Application dependency on all the local resource
• Preparing the power off & power on plans & steps for the servers, storage & network devices
• Preparing application test cases for all the  application for post migration sanity test
• Taking sign off & concurrence from all application owners
• Preparing detailed plans for relocation of IT equipment.
• Un mounting, Packaging, Transporting, rack & stack & reinstallation of the servers & network devices at the destination Data Center
• Application sanity test as per test cases
• Sign off from respective application owner 

Data Center Infrastructure High Availability

All data center designs are judged by their ability to provide continuous operations for the Applications, Servers & Network services they support. Data center availability is affected by both planned (scheduled maintenance) and unplanned (failures) events. To maximize availability, the impact from each of these must be minimized and/or eliminated.

All data centers must be maintained on a regular basis. In most data center designs, scheduled maintenance is a planned event requiring network downtime. For this reason, general maintenance is often forgone, leaving long-term availability to chance. In robust data center designs, concurrently maintainable systems are implemented to avoid interruption to normal data center operations.

To mitigate unplanned outages, both redundancy and fault-tolerance must be incorporated into the data center design. High-availability is accomplished by providing redundancy for all, major and minor, systems, thereby eliminating single points of failure. Additionally, the data center design must offer predictable uptime by incorporating fault-tolerance against hard failures. (A hard failure is a failure in which the component must be replaced to return to an operational steady state.)

A data center achieves high-availability by implementing a fully redundant, fault-tolerant, and concurrently maintainable IT and support infrastructure architecture in which all possible hard failures are predictable and deterministic.

Data Center Flexibility & Scalability

A data center must support fast, seamless, growth, and deployment of new services without a major overhaul of its infrastructure and without a major disruption to its operation. A data center designed for flexibility can adapt to changing business conditions and thereby the demands put upon its function. The use of modular systems within the data centers design, where the characteristics of the modules are known and the steps to add more modules are simple, is an excellent method for achieving flexibility.

Another key component in achieving flexibility is scalability. Scalability is the design concept of proactively planning for changing requirements. A data center that is scalable has the capacity to sustain rapid growth in performance, the number of devices that it can host, and the quality of services offered. Again, the use of modular systems is an excellent strategy to address growth without major disruptions.

A data center achieves flexibility by implementing a modular IT and support infrastructure architecture allowing it to adapt quickly to unanticipated growth.

Physical Data Center Design in lines with Green IT norms

We provide data center consulting services on the physical design of the Data Centers. We encourage our customers to adopt Green Data Center Technology. A green data center is a repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data in which the mechanical, lighting, electrical and computer systems are designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact. The construction and operation of a green data center includes advanced technologies and strategies.

We put an advantage to bring the green Data center concept in following ways: 

• Minimizing the footprints of the buildings
• The use of low-emission building materials, carpets and paints
• Sustainable landscaping
• Waste recycling
• Installation of catalytic converters on backup generators
• The use of alternative energy technologies such as photovoltaic, heat pumps, and evaporative cooling
• The use of hybrid or electric company vehicles

Design consideration for the Green Data Center

We consider & provide the consultancy services to optimize the following aspects of the Data Center Design

• Physical Layout of the Data Center
• Cooling considerations
• Power considerations
• Security & BMS
• Energy efficiency

Green data centers don't just save energy; they also reduce the need for expensive infrastructure upgrades to deal with increased power and cooling demands. Physical consolidation is considered for such data centers, where based on the utilization of the resources, servers will be consolidated to lesser number of servers. The activities will be to…

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