Power services and solutions specialist, Comtec Power, has launched a new solution framework to achieve ecological business continuity. The Datacentre Eco-Structure assists data center managers in meeting the challenges of achieving information and communications technology (ICT) business continuity, whilst reducing an organisation's carbon footprint and increasing efficiency.
Based upon intelligent design techniques and high-level IT and facilities management consultancy, the Datacentre Eco-Structure enables organisations to benefit from a network critical physical infrastructure that offers agility and resilience against potential internal and external impacts. For example, forthcoming legislation on green tax, spiralling energy costs, and mergers and acquisitions are demonstrative of immediate threats against operational stability.
Underpinning the Eco-Structure framework is a comprehensive range of services and technical expertise including design, project management, relocation UPS, cooling environmental monitoring, and maintenance and support.'
Nick Ewing, solutions consultant, Comtec Power, explains: The data center is the foundation of all IT and communications strategies - its stability and performance is critical to achieving business continuity. However, at the same time, data center managers are under growing pressure to conform to green' corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies that will reduce a company's carbon emission and their energy bills.
Right-sizing the energy-guzzling power and cooling components in the data center with the ecological and financial demands of an organisation, therefore, requires a strategic design that delivers flexibility, efficiency and performance.
Ewing adds: In this environment, achieving a living, breathing eco-structure', with flexibility, efficiency and performance at the core, will enable the datacentre manager to deliver greater value and profitability, whilst supporting a range of other objectives such as CSR.'
Nick Claxson, managing director of Comtec Power concludes: Data center managers can benefit from the emergence of eco-structures' if they ensure that they, and others, such as those responsible for CSR, business growth and continuity, do not underestimate the integral role that the data centre plays in business stability and success, or the potential damage it can bring if its needs are not considered or planned for.'