Some of the key areas to consider when designing your data center include: Data cabling Grounding and

nd bonding Infrastructure management and monitoring Power and cooling Thermal management Security

Design considerations of United Banks Datacenter

Decide the tier level we want to attain and comply to the re uirements !rchitectural considerations " This addresses the design topology# the number of functional rooms in the datacenter $staging# holding# computer# %&'# power# (etc)

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Dimensions of the rooms Type of wall# door# emergency e*its (etc +ire rated rooms# walls# floors# +loor to ceiling dimensions ,uilt in 'abling structure +loor loading of pointed and distributed load

Power considerations- Ground and ,onding cabling work. ,uilt in grounding structure of the datacenter Security- Physical security $doors# surveillance# access cards) /onitoring- ,uilding management system $,/S) Structural cabling 0irtual machines and 'loud technology may affect the future of datacenters. Thus considerations can be made to rent datacenter space as hosting company or usage of cloud technology and no need of own datacenter.

The building structure must consider the power and network cabling in and out of the datacenter without affecting the cooling of the room and without allowing dust into the room and also without being a security breach. If cables rise from power source to the datacenter# it should be emphasi1ed that the length of the cable be e ual in all directions Should the datacenter ,/S be integrated with the building system or be monitored independently by the IT department