The heart of a company’s infrastructure is its data center — where the most IT investment is made and where small decisions can have large impact long after they are implemented. In a data center where change is constantly occurring — expansions, consolidations, relocations and migrations — any unplanned event can have a catastrophic business impact. Align has over 20 years of experience managing this change. We’ve made our reputation by planning, designing, building, relocating and managing data centers for the world’s top firms.

Whether building a new facility, expanding an existing data center or retrofitting an existing site, Align will assess and examine a firm’s business needs, adhere to corporate standards, ensure flexibility and provide space for growth. Our BICSI-certified Registered Communication Distribution Designers (RCDDs) consider all architectural, mechanical and electrical issues as we prepare a design that is cost-effective, redundant, scalable and maintainable.

Address Current Technology Requirements and
Prepare for Next-Generation Technologies

We build consensus with all the organization’s stakeholders — technology, facilities, engineering, real estate and business — to ensure your data center has a reliable, flexible infrastructure that addresses every requirement and is scalable.

An under-performing data center leads to system downtime, loss of data and ultimately, loss of revenue. With the constant changes in legal and regulatory requirements, data centers have also become the focus of periodic audits and the major component of a business continuity planning. Understanding all of the operational requirements necessary to manage today’s data centers make it difficult for companies to handle the many facets of this IT challenge.

Our data center professionals can help:

  • Evaluate the global corporate IT strategy and the technology facilities to support it
  • Utilize advanced computational fluid dynamics(CFD) tools to understand and optimize the data center environment
  • Design and implement a turnkey solution for all aspects of the data center
  • Create a business continuity plan to ensure full functionality in the event of an interruption to production in the primary data center

Our assessment efforts also help address:

  • Security
  • Power
  • Networking infrastructure
  • HVAC
  • Fire suppression
  • Disaster recovery
  • Green IT
  • Monitoring and uptime
  • CFD modeling

Using technologies such as server virtualization, technology asset management, automated application dependency discovery and computational fluid dynamics, we help our clients develop a clear understanding of current environments, map a plan for the future, and ensure that their technology infrastructure can grow to meet business requirements. To learn more about data center design and build out, contact Align.