After what feels like a few weeks, we have finally started construction on the lower level of the office, this will give us a nice reception / display area, large board room, small meeting room, kitchen / lunchroom, server build and test room and a common area for the co-location facility!
Since the construction only started on Monday, you can only see the skeleton of the walls, the Gyprock will be complete by Thursday or Friday and then it looks like we will be painting on the weekend…
Once this is complete, we will move onto the finalization of the co-location facility, there has just been a huge amount of back end things that have had to be resolved before we can actually finish the flooring and cabling, the main contributor is the fibre links and the installation of more power to the building to handle the load.
firstly oops! I have been soo busy with everything that has been going on I forgot to Blog! So here I am with some pretty cool updates!
The main reason behind me being so busy is that we are building a state of the art co-location facility in Tuggerah and that has taken much of my time, BUT what a lot of people did not know was that we also moved the Servers Australia, One Provider and Replica offices and finally combined the three companies into one BIG office, and yes it is nice and BIG with even more room to come in the next few weeks once construction is finished!
The move happened over the past week, and we will hopefully be settled by the end of the week and fully functional again…although we will not be doing an official opening for around another 4-6 weeks, as this is the time that the SAUDC-1 will be completed, once this is done we will be having some huge specials and a celebration of the new office and data centre, so if you want to join in simply send me an e-mail. We would love to see you there! And of course it is no party without food and beverages, so there will be lots of that supplied by us.
I have attached some images of the office below, the bright colours are matching to our logo (I know they are bright, but they look soo soo cool!)
Samantha and Myself have our own office at the front of the office which will over look the sales / support staff that will be in the open plan part of the office, then down the back of the office we will have the two Sales managers Geoff and Anthony, who will be able to look over the new Data Centre, as well as the sales / support staff and the new board room that will be either downstairs or upstairs, we have not decided yet, but I will make a decision with the others some time this week.
Downstairs, we will have a reception / display room, a small meeting room, lunch room and kitchen and a Network Operations Centre, that will over look and connect to the Co-location room to help customers who break their servers and for general maintenance on equipment!
Well that is all I have for now on the office, I will also post an update on the DC build very shortly.
Ok, so in my last post I stated that we (Servers Australia Pty Ltd) are building a Data Centre shortly.
This is a very big step for us as a wholesale provider and will allow us to offer affordable, reliable and cheap co-location space to our new and existing customers.
We will be building the facility to high standards and will be using proper Data Centre equipment such as:
- N+1 CRAC cooling systems
- N+1 Power system
- 300mm raised flooring, capable of holding 1800kg / square metre
The first stage of the facility will house approx 150 racks with stage 2 housing a further 150-200 racks, we are anticipating to have stage 1 open by June 30th and I will start posting photos and updates on here daily when the construction actually starts!
So far we have ordered all the needed parts / components for the Data Centre and most of it has arrived, the images below show the racks being loaded from the manufacturer onto a truck to be sent to us and the raised flooring in a container that was shipped to us (there is over 300m2 of flooring in stage 1)
The next images will be of the start of construction, and the connection of the redundant Gigabit Fibre links!
