We assess racks against industry standards and grade risks on a three-tier system to provide a clear breakdown of issues that need attention or urgent remediation.
Sunspeed will provide experienced data center professionals who record key attributes of the environment and survey each rack individually.
Benefits of the assessment include:
- Identifying compliance issues.
- Highlighting deviations from best-practice standards.
- Exposes inconsistencies potentially signposting broken governance practices and policies.
- Gather ‘nice-to-know’ information to validate DCIM data.
Following the assessment, Sunspeed can provide project-based support to remediate any of the highlighted issues. We also offer ongoing management and support services to ensure your environment continues to conform to defined standards and processes.
Rack Vulnerability Assessment
Patching & Cabling
Cable installation is key for optimum performance and ease of change. We check the use of correct size cables, the way they are dressed and labelled and bend radii along with cable type separation and management.
General Environment Inspection
This includes health and safety, rack security, fire hazards and the general tidiness of the IT environment.
Rack Power Infrastructure
We assess the resilience of power supplies, load balancing, single powered device protection, installation/suitability of cables and assess the suitability of initiatives and enable easier change and maintenance.
Additional Services
Sunspeed can help with IMAC, Infrastructure Design, Structured Cabling, Data Centre Relocation and Optimisation.
Rack Design & Installation
We examine the physical stability of the racks including containment solutions, cable entry, air blanking and device positioning including air intake and exhaust.
Smart Hands
Sunspeed can provide Smart Hands to support you with change management. If you’re interested in further support environment, read about our Data Centre Management service.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why Sunspeed?
Established & Trusted – With 30+ years of experience, Sunspeed has delivered thousands of specialist data centre and IT projects. We support many of the UK’s Data Centres, Large Service Integrators and IT Resellers and are trusted by organisations small and large across both the private and public sectors.
Safe & Secure – At Sunspeed, our experienced and security cleared engineers can coordinate all your logistical needs as well as deliver the technical requirements for any server relocation, from small moves to large data centre projects.
Project Coordination – No matter the size or scope, a dedicated project coordinator is assigned to all projects. As the main point of contact whilst a project is in delivery, the project coordinator is responsible for coordinating site surveys, scheduling, briefing the engineering teams and organising the logistics.
What else can Sunspeed help with?
We’re a physical IT services company and we offer a variety of services. We can help with IT Relocation, Secure Desktop IT Relocation, IT Equipment Installs, Data Centre Cabling, Technical Logistics, Data Centre Cleaning & International IT Shipments as well as Asset Decommissioning and IT Recycling.
We are moving our services to the cloud, how can this service help us?
Sunspeed provide professional services that assist customers with auditing what they have and enabling cloud or physical migrations. We can also decommission, resell or destroy unwanted IT and securely shred data on or off site. Of course, the rack vulnerability assessment is crucial to determine the efficiency and risk to the IT that is left behind.
We already have teams checking our installations and qualified engineers undertaking any physical change, how would this service help?
This is quite common in modern datacentres, however, what we find is differing standards deployed by multiple installers, and the lack of deployment guidelines issues become difficult to fix. A periodic independent assessment is a good health check, not just for your installation but your processes and standards too.
I still have more questions.
We are confident you still have a number of questions.
Pick up the phone and speak to us – our friendly and experienced staff are here to help you make good decisions when it comes to planning your IT or data centre project. You can reach sales on: +44 (0) 1252 377 027 or via our enquiry form.
