We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers for their support and business over the previous 12 months, and wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.
Instead of sending out Christmas cards this year we have again made a donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children where over 150,000 sick children are treated every year.
We’d also like to particularly thank our NOC Technicians and Security Officers who are staffing both our LHC and Centro sites on a 24/7 basis over the entire holiday period in order to provide our customers with the continuous support they’re used to!
As part of our extensive Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedule at our Centro datacentre facility, we run start tests on our generators every two weeks.
These generators provide stand-by power in the unlikely event of a utility outage on both HV supplies to the datacentre. We store enough diesel on-site to run the entire facility for around 4 days, and we have fuel resupply agreements with multiple fuel providers to ensure we can continue operating from generator power even in case of a prolonged outage.
We posted an image of the snow that had settled at Centro over on our Twitter page (over a foot deep in most places!), but as a generator start test was scheduled for today, we’ve uploaded the CCTV footage as an extra bonus:
Our generators are constantly heated and their starter batteries kept fully charged to ensure they are available as quickly as possible to provide backup power to our facility.
During this start test, the outside temperature was around -1C, and both generators started, synced and closed their breakers on to our main switchgear in 18 seconds, well within normal operating tolerances (we have battery supplies for our UPS system to last around 10 minutes before the generators kick in). The generators are run for around 30 minutes, during which time the on-board management computers are checked to ensure that there are no faults.
We’re pleased to announce that our Centro datacentre facility has been shortlisted in the Datacenter Leaders’ Awards 2009 for the “Innovation in the Medium Datacentre” category. The awards are judged by industry specialists, including engineers from Morgan Stanley, HP, Norland, Dell, and APC, and are sponsored by the British Computer Society, and the Green Grid.
Hot aisle containment in Suite 1 at Centro datacentre facility
The annual awards are organised by DatacenterDynamics, an information provider who host a series of 22 annual popular datacentre industry conference events worldwide. In 2008 alone, nearly 8,000 industry specialists attended the conferences.
Robin Balen, Managing Director of Gyron stated:
We’re extremely proud to have been shortlisted for this prestigious leadership award. We have received incredible feedback from both existing and new customers who have toured our state-of-the-art Centro facility, which has been designed from the ground up to host a wide range of customer equipment in the most efficient and scalable way possible. This level of recognition from industry insiders is icing on the cake for all the hard work our team have put in to developing the Centro datacentre.
For more details regarding the other awards and finalists, the DatacentreDynamics press release can be found here.
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