01–06The data centre lifecycle

The data centre lifecycle, end to end.

From the first question about where capacity should go to the day-to-day running of a live hall. Most providers cover a piece of the lifecycle. We cover all of it, with one team accountable from first conversation to day-to-day run.

Explore the stages

stages: 6
capabilities: 30
accountable team: 1

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Dwg: OX-LCY-01
Rev: 4.0
Stages: 06
Scale: NTS

01Stage by stage

Thirty capabilities in six stages.

01Stage 1 of 6

Strategy & Advisory

Before anything is bought or built: where the capacity should go, which providers could host it, and whether an existing site is ready for what is coming. Independent advice grounded in what works on site.

Requirements are written down, candidate sites are assessed for power, connectivity and risk, and a feasibility study is signed off.

02Stage 2 of 6

Acquisition & Commercial

Independent sourcing and the commercial work around space, power and connectivity. With AVANT Pathfinder we compare 330+ providers and 1,600+ data centres on real data and live pricing.

Providers are compared on real data, the shortlisted facility goes through due diligence and the lease terms are agreed.

03Stage 3 of 6

Design & Engineering

Greenfield and brownfield design across grey space and white space, sized for the density the hall has to carry on day one and the growth that follows.

The white space and grey space are designed around the target density, with capacity planned for the growth that follows.

04Stage 4 of 6

Build & Delivery

Fit-out, M&E installation and structured cabling by our own engineers, tested, labelled and documented to TIA/EIA, ISO/IEC and BICSI standards.

The hall is fitted out, containment and power go in, and every cable is tested, labelled and documented.

05Stage 5 of 6

Migration & Transformation

Moving live environments with runbooks, rehearsals and go/no-go gates, from a single cabinet to a full facility, then commissioning what lands.

Workloads move in rehearsed phases through go/no-go gates, and the new hall is commissioned.

06Stage 6 of 6

Operate & Optimise

Running the hall once it is live: 24/7 monitoring, smart hands and incident response, with carrier coordination and programme management around them.

The hall goes live on 24/7 monitoring and smart hands, run by the same team that planned and built it.

02One team

Every handover loses context.

Split across contractors

01Strategy
02Acquisition
03Design
04Build
05Migration
06Operate

Five handovers, each with its own drawings, decisions and context to pass on

One Optronix team

01Strategy
02Acquisition
03Design
04Build
05Migration
06Operate

One continuous record, from first brief to day-to-day run

01
One relationship
The people who plan the hall stay with it through the build, the move and the running of it, so decisions are made by people who know why the last ones were taken.
02
Built for scale
Whether it is a 5-rack deployment or thousands of racks across multiple sites, the standards and the documentation stay the same.
03
Engineers first
Our people understand cabling standards, power chains and cooling, and how they behave inside a live data hall, not just on a Gantt chart.