Data Center Services
From planning and designing a greenfield data center to modernizing, expanding, optimizing and retrofitting existing facilities.
Plan and fund
Before capital is committed
DC Innovations
Innovation and solutions for advanced cooling, high-power-density management and sustainable energy, to support the rapid growth of AI and cloud computing.
Challenges we work on (6)
- High-density cooling limits
- Power availability and grid constraints
- Sustainability and environmental pressure
- Evolving cyber and physical threats
- Regulatory compliance and data sovereignty
- Rising TCO across hardware, software and operations
DC Consulting
Advice on optimal data center design, consolidation and modernization, including workload migration to public or private clouds.
What it covers (4)
- Strategy and planning: feasibility studies, tier alignment
- Design and engineering: layout, space, power, cooling and network cabling
- Compliance advisory: Uptime Institute tier ratings
- ROI modelling and scalable-model consulting
DC Financing
Help raising the debt and equity capital a campus needs, often billions of dollars, to fund land, high-voltage power, building shells and specialized IT such as GPU clusters.
What it covers (5)
- IT infrastructure grants
- Data center investment
- Capital and debt financing
- Letters of credit (LC and SLC)
- Co-location financing
Build and power
New facilities and upgrades
DC Power
An energy partner arranged by CITS finances, builds, owns and operates the on-site power and electrical infrastructure under a long-term service agreement.
DC Retrofit / Modernize
Upgrades that let ageing facilities take higher power densities, AI workloads and better energy efficiency, while live environments keep running with minimal downtime.
What it covers (5)
- Assessment and retrofit feasibility study
- Phased strategy and modernization roadmap
- Re-design of rack layouts, power density and airflow
- UPS, PDU, precision cooling and containment upgrades; PUE improvement
- Server, storage and network modernization
DC BTS
Build to Suit
A facility custom-designed to meet the exact power, cooling and space needs of a single organization.
What it covers (5)
- Site selection and acquisition
- Design, engineering, construction and commissioning
- Green data center build
- Prefab, modular and edge data centers
- MEP: mechanical, electrical and plumbing
Equip
Hardware without the upfront cost
DC Hardware Rental
Rental of servers, storage and networking gear, and of critical plant such as generators, temporary HVAC and load banks, for temporary capacity, migrations or construction.
DCAM
DC Asset Management: shipping, compliance and warehouse
A strict chain of custody for high-value IT equipment, tracked through its whole life and kept compliant from inbound transit to final rack placement.
What it covers (7)
- Importer of Record (IOR) for data center assets
- Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) shipping
- VAT recovery on international trade
- Exporter of Record (EOR)
- Import and export liability for hardware
- Global trade compliance
- Warehousing and asset insurance
Run
Operation under agreed service levels
DC Automation
Automation of routine tasks, so services are delivered on demand in a repeatable way.
What it covers (5)
- Automated server provisioning
- Compute, storage and network configuration
- Power distribution, cooling and generator control
- Batch jobs, updates and patching
- PUE monitoring, ESG compliance and carbon reporting
DC Managed Services
An operating model for the day-to-day management, maintenance and monitoring of every data center component.
What it covers (9)
- Facility: power, cooling, fire and physical infrastructure
- IT: compute, storage, network and virtualization
- Operations: NOC, monitoring, incident and change management
- Security: SOC, SIEM, firewall, IAM and compliance
- Resilience: backup, DR, BCP and DRaaS
- Cloud: FinOps, private, public, hybrid and multi-cloud
- Observability: analytics, AIOps and reporting
- Service management: service desk, SLAs, ITIL and governance
- Sustainability: energy efficiency and green data center services
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