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Centro Suite 1 Phase 2 fit-out update

Published on May 11, 2010 in Centro fit-out and Pictures. 0 Comments Tags: batteries, caging, centro, chiller, cooling, crac, deliveries, expansion, fit out, power, UPS.

Followers of our Twitter feed have been enjoying some behind the scenes photos from the expansion works at our Centro facility. We’ve put together a quick post here with some highlights:

: Bases ready for installation of additional 5 air conditioning units

: Installation of new ultra-secure dedicated caged area

: Additional 250kW Carrier chiller arrives on-site

: Delivery of new 2,500L chiller water buffer tank

: Delivery of UPS batteries to support 400kW at 2N redundancy

: UPS battery build nearing completion

Gyron celebrates 10th birthday with £3.85m in new contract wins

Published on March 23, 2010 in Centro fit-out, Gyron News and Press Releases. 1 Comment Tags: birthday, centro, contracts, expansion.

Gyron, a leading UK provider of specialist datacentre services, has celebrated it’s 10th birthday in style by announcing a large expansion at its state of the art Centro datacentre following contract wins in excess of £3.85m for services at the facility alone since first opening 9 months ago.

Centro datacentre

Robin Balen, Managing Director, comments:

The next phase of expansion at the Centro datacentre is an exciting time for Gyron. Our philosophy has always been that customers will respond enthusiastically when presented with a state of the art datacentre, a flexible approach, fantastic customer service and great value for money, and we’ve been bowled over by the volume of positive feedback about our facility from both new and existing customers. The contract figures speak for themselves, especially given the challenging wider economic conditions.

The fit out works will add an additional 360kW of IT capacity within the datacentre at Hemel Hempstead, over 85% of which has already been contracted for. Work on the expansion space is due to complete on the 1st of June, exactly 1 year after the Centro facility first opened its doors to customer equipment.

Ben Miller, Operations Director, continues:

Our approach from day one when designing the Centro facility was to ensure that the datacentre infrastructure was completely modular. This has allowed us to rapidly expand operations at the site to meet unprecedented demand for our services, and also increase the specification of our services when needed to suit specific customer requirements. This next phase is no exception and we look forward to delivering this additional capacity shortly.

State of the art power and cooling systems have been specified for the expansion area, along with a custom hot-aisle containment system designed in-house, allowing a best-in-class target Power usage Effectiveness (PuE) of between 1.3 and 1.4, whilst simultaneously providing enhanced 2N redundancy on the power infrastructure.

For further details on this and future expansion space at the Centro facility, please contact the Gyron sales team.

-ENDS-

About Gyron

Gyron was formed in March 2000, and offers colocation and a wide range complimentary managed services from two facilities — the London Hosting Centre in the heart of the London Docklands, and the Centro datacentre in Hemel Hempstead. Both datacentres are supported by 24/7 on-site teams of engineers and offer redundant power, cooling, and connectivity, all covered by 100% uptime service level guarantees. For more information, visit http://blog.gyron.net/.

Behind the scenes at Centro – bulk BT Openreach fibre installation

Published on January 22, 2010 in Behind the Scenes and Pictures. 0 Comments Tags: bt, centro, duct, fibre, network, openreach.

: 144 cores of fibre are brought in to a dedicated BT riser at Centro

: Dedicated splicing tray installed in to one of Centro’s diverse comms rooms

: Tubing is installed through to the customer rack, and the fibre blown through with compressed air

: Fibre is spliced in to a patch panel at the customer rack

Centro generator snow start test

Published on December 18, 2009 in General Bloggery and Videos. 0 Comments Tags: centro, generators, power, ppm, snow, testing.

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.

Gyron’s Centro facility shortlisted for Datacenter Leaders’ Awards 2009

Published on December 2, 2009 in Gyron News. 2 Comments Tags: awards, bcs, centro, datacenterdynamics, green grid, innovation.

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.

20 rack pod in Suite 1 with hot aisle containment

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.