NEXTDC B2 Data Center: Security, Performance, Reliability, and Energy-Efficiency

NEXTDC B2 Data Center is a colocation and cloud provider data center that sets standards for security, performance, reliability, and energy-efficiency. It offers technical support, flexible solutions, and professional services. Our literature review focuses on project satisfaction, engagement, and continuous improvement. Our recommendations include leveraging cloud services for integration and data management.

NEXTDC B2 DATA CENTER
Table of Contents
NEXTDC B2 DATA CENTER, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA---------------------------------------------------------2
INTRODUCTION--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2
1.1. RESEARCH OVERVIEW AND DISCUSSION-------------------------------------------------------------------2
1.2. PROJECT MANAGEMENT---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5
1.3. TECHNICAL SUPPORT WITH NEXTDC REMOTE HANDS--------------------------------------------------5
1.4. NEXTDC SOLUTIONS--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6
1.5. NEXTDC PROFESSIONAL SERVICES-------------------------------------------------------------------------------7
1.5.1 The pre-sale engineering design services---------------------------------------------------------------------8
1.6. NEXTDC AWARDS SINCE IT OPENED IN 2011--------------------------------------------------------------8
1.7. LITERATURE REVIEW----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9
RECOMEDATIONS---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11
CONCLUSION----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11
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INTRODUCTION
1.1. RESEARCH OVERVIEW AND DISCUSSION
NEXTDC is a colocation and cloud provider data center. Colocation data centers are a good
connection point between the cloud and the enterprise IT. The company connects the services
with the infrastructure. NextDC data center came online just recently, and it’s at position two in
Queensland State. B2 sets standards for the customers’ expectations from the datacenters as it is
the present company’s benchmark for security, performance, reliability together with energy-
efficiency. B2 data center at Brisbane was the first data center in Australia to acquire the Tier IV
Certification of Constructed Facility (TCCF) that represented next generation of the data center
design. In the Asia Pacific, NEXTDC was the first co-location receiving certification. B2 is
NEXTDC first of second generation data center. NEXTDC is the Data Centre-as-a-Service
provider that leads in Australia hence becoming number one data center operator in the Southern
Hemisphere with certification of Operational Sustainability by Uptime Institute. Operational
Sustainability standard identifies factors like climate-change preparedness, growing edge
computing needs, risk mitigation, rack density increase, energy efficiency, and the staffing trends
into meeting fault tolerant standards in running a data center. By fault tolerant we mean that the
facility can stand the equipment failures and disruptions of the power paths and still stand at full
capacity and it can be achieved by keeping the design elegant and very simple plus making sure
the paths are kept separated. Certification shows that the people at NEXTDC have processes as
certified hence the organization’s standards being well aligned throughout the business and
assuring total commitment to the customers. NEXTDC has B2 as one of the eight data centers in
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Australia with other three upcoming data centers at Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. The three
upcoming will contain 180MW capacity, and this will take NEXTDC to a total capacity of
300MW at their completion. NEXTDC got certifications from the Uptime Institute that is for
Tier III together with Tier IV in design and construction and another in Tier III Gold in
operational sustainability. Currently, the Tier Classification System top has the Tier IV, and it
grows on the Tier III Standard that is for maintainability due to P1, M1 and S1 data centers
presence making sure there are no disruptions to the customers, no need for equipment to be
replaced and maintained and no disturbance to the customers’ infrastructure. B2 characterizes
two redundancies in the systems that are critical, a power distribution system that is in-built
together with the distinctin of power utility and water utility in the facilities. NEXTDC has
currently come up with a reliable power distribution system and low-risk power distribution
system that mixes the high-performance diesel engines of Penske Power Systems with Piller’s
unique Rotary Uninterruptible Power Supply (RUPS) that are in one connection with Isolated-
Parallel Bus electrical distribution scheme. Whenever the Rotary Uninterruptible Power Supply
or the engines face some performance issues then definitely the rest raises their output
automatically making sure that power is delivered wherever it is needed accordingly. Tier IV
offers to cool continuously together with fire segregation and the leak containment among the
vital equipment and paths. Tier IV is friendly to the customers as it does not cost them more for
instance in B2 we see installation and designing of the water pipes at the outer side of the facility
to acquire the catastrophic leak tolerance automatically hence freeing up the multiple rows of the
added racks. The design characteristic increases on the availability of the data hall space for the
customers and aid in the delivery a data center maintaining the customer services in instances of
events that would that can lead to the facility closure. Comparison of the data centers shows that
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they are almost similar and this is achieved from originality and coordination that is among
teams that are engaged in designing, in constructing together with operating the NEXTDC data
centers. From a design view of it, engineers get the opportunity to learning from the data center
experience. The design of this data center has equipped the engineering sector with experience
from the management of the facility, the operations of the customer to IT team and development
teams. It has helped in perfecting and optimizing the operations, and the deliveries made to the
customers and partners as NEXTDC can respond to market pressures and needs of its customers
and partners accordingly. B2 at stage one has an IT cubic measure of 2MW that is across
1,200m2 of the industrial area an IT cubic measure of 6MW across 3,000m2 of the industrial
area at full fit-out. NEXTDC plans for a second facility on the existing stage two hence doubling
the IT capacity to 12MW. NEXTDC uses business transformation experience to comprehend the
difficulties faced by their partners and customers in setting IT to their business goals. They major
on what the customers and the partners go through so they can deliver to them by use of
investment in the systems. NEXTDC has its difficulties too, such as, managing a multi-cloud
environment, data growth, security, digital platforms alignment and distributed IT. On the other
hand, it makes an effort to correcting this faults as it has specialized partners that search through
to have a lean approach. NEXTDC data center always stands out as none of the future data
centers has overtaken it. Most of them try achieving a Tier IV facility, and sure they do gain the
preliminary design documents certification but since they don’t do it about the Tier IV-certified
design or rather have the building tested and certified by Uptime Institute they fail. The footprint
of NEXTDC is massively spreading across Brisbane enabling its customers and partners to have
the flexibility to making connections directly between B1 and B2 through data center
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interconnect hence being able to provide a seamless extension in between the data center
infrastructure and the facility IT services.
1.2. PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Managing a data center needs careful planning and execution hence highly experienced technical
project managers are required to help one manage the installations, processing and planning the
transition to NEXTDC facility. The stages for every new environment has to be via the project
management schedule and the elements and the timelines related with these stages must always
be involved; the design, procurement, the build dates, testing, commissioning and hand over.
When it comes to migration they ensure equipment protection together with safety and efficient
migration priority is given within the project timeframes. The migration management services
includes: migration management service includes: auditing the infrastructure existing,
developing the patch matrix, designing of configuration, preparation at destination site of works,
patching, cabling plus power requirements, transportation local plus interstate, developing the
detailed manifest, developing roll back together with other risk mitigation strategies, marine
cargo insurance and equipment dismantling and packaging.
1.3. TECHNICAL SUPPORT WITH NEXTDC REMOTE HANDS
By remote hands, we mean not necessarily going to the center to solve a problem rather solving
it from anywhere hence saving one on time, travel cost and money. NEXTDC technicians are
ever available to offer support to their customers and partners remotely on tasks like managing
deliveries, compliance tasks, offering escorts to the contractors, unpacking, receiving and
reporting on equipments, the stack and rack equipment, cable patching, reboot equipment with
no log ins, reseat and replace cards, the power equipment for cycling purposes, goods
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preparation for shipping, reporting and description of the display information and fault
investigation.
1.4. NEXTDC SOLUTIONS
NEXTDC had flexible and designed to scale kind of solutions that best align to their customer’s
business requirements with no bias. For instance; Accessing a number of the cloud platforms, the
networks carrier, and the service providers, offer onsite technical assistance, the building of the
hybrid cloud environment, rack ready solutions that can be paid with Fast Start packages. Most
organizations today operate in a multi-cloud world. NEXTDC also helps in bringing the cloud to
the customers and partners under one roof. It brings fast and secure access to the largest public
cloud platforms in the world together with cloud providers. It helps in multi-cloud strategy
customization. NEXTDC’s data centers are hubs for major cloud platforms such as Office 365,
Azure, Google, AWS, Oracle and IBM Cloud. The AXON Ethernet helps in free connection to
the services critical to the businesses. Connection in the same data center or rather location.
The connection between B1 and B2 is somewhat more straightforward as it is done with just a
data center interconnect (DCI).
1.5. NEXTDC PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
1.5.1 The pre-sale engineering design services
Consultancy and infrastructure design are inclusive of the proposal process for the right planning
and costing. NEXTDC brings in experience and comprehension in infrastructure design together
with expertise in networking and data communications.
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1.5.2 Remote hands services
This involves solution solving from anywhere and not necessarily going to the data center.
1.5.3 Project management
Involves installations done by the technicians at NEXTDC.
1.5.4 Data migration
Involves safety and efficiency in migration that is done within project timeframes
1.6. NEXTDC AWARDS SINCE IT OPENED IN 2011
1.6.1. The Lord Mayor's Business Awards which were three in number.
2017 and 2011 award: won the National Australia Bank Award and Brisbane port award because
of its investments.
2012 award: won the Australia Trade Coast Award because of its growth in terms of business.
1.6.2. The WAiTTA INCITE Award
2014 award: P1 data center won the award of merit in this year.
1.6.3. Data Centre Dynamics Award
2014 award: S1 Sydney won the Innovation award in Mega-Data Centre.
1.6.4. Frost and Sullivan awards which were three in number.
2016 and 2017 award: lead in the growth of its services.
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2014 award: lead in service provision to its customers in that year.
1.6.5. The ARN ICT Industry Awards which were five in number;
2017 award: Topped in Technical sector.
2016 award: Had the best initiative in telecommunications that year.
2015 and 2014 award: lead in service provision those two years.
2013 award: Lead in sustainability and service provision during that year.
1.6.6. The Brill Award which was just one in the year 2015;
2015 award: Won in efficiency IT
1.6.7. The Queensland iAwards which were two in number;
2016 award: AXON award.
2014 award: ONEDC Award.
1.7. LITERATURE REVIEW
Project Satisfaction & engagement and continuous improvement.
B2 sets standards for the customers’ expectations from the datacenters as it is the present
company’s benchmark for security, performance, reliability together with energy-efficiency. It
ensures there is operational sustainability whose standard identifies factors like climate-change
preparedness, growing edge computing needs, risk mitigation, rack density increase, energy
efficiency, and the staffing trends into meeting fault tolerant standards in running a data center.
By fault tolerant, the facility can stand the equipment failures and disruptions of the power paths
but then it will still stand at full capacity, and it can be achieved by keeping the design elegant
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and very simple plus making sure the paths are kept separated. NEXTDC has currently come up
with a reliable power distribution system and low-risk power distribution system making sure
that power is delivered wherever it is needed accordingly. The design characteristic increases on
the availability of the data hall space for the customers and aid in the delivery hence data center
maintaining the customer services in instances of events that would lead to the facility closure.
Tier IV is friendly to the customers as it does not cost them more for instance in B2 we see
installation and designing of the water pipes at the outer side of the facility to acquire the
catastrophic leak tolerance automatically hence freeing up the multiple rows of the added racks.
The footprint of NEXTDC is massively spreading across Brisbane enabling its customers and
partners to have the flexibility to making connections directly between B1 and B2 through data
center interconnect hence being able to provide a seamless extension in between the data center
infrastructure and the facility IT services. NEXTDC had its difficulties too, such as managing a
multi-cloud environment, data growth, security, digital platforms alignment and distributed IT
but its puts effort in mending this faults as it has specialized partners that search through to have
a lean approach. Project client satisfaction and engagement and continuous improvement are the
reviews I choose for this project as NEXTDC upfront objectives are meeting their customers and
partners’ satisfaction and leading in Australia hence must keep on improving themselves and
fixing its shortcomings.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Cloud comes in as a very crucial enabler. Having services brought together in the cloud aids in
the integration of the systems and the data, aids in the alignment of innovation and alignment of
IT with the business strategies. The cloud economy and abilities are changing so fast that
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industries must follow up on the decisions they made concerning their businesses. Currently,
they are coming at meager costs making private cloud affordable even for small companies, and
a small number of servers also can be economically viable usually as a private cloud.
CONCLUSION
NEXTDC data center stands as the best data center in Australia. It has its shortcomings, yes, but
no other upcoming data center beats it. The customers and the partners praise it a lot and are
thankful for it. It is friendly to the customers as it does not cost them more for instance in B2 we
see installation and designing of the water pipes at the outer side of the facility to acquire the
catastrophic leak tolerance automatically hence freeing up the multiple rows of the added racks.
NEXTDC data center just like any other facility it has its difficulties too, such as, managing a
multi-cloud environment, data growth, security, digital platforms alignment and distributed IT.
On the other hand, it makes an effort to fixing this faults as it has specialized partners that search
through to have a lean approach.
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