Design Evaluation and Validation

Ensuring that the data centre you are planning to build meets your business requirements begins with the initial design. The question is… how often have you built a data centre and, if you are going to build one, which standards and/or best practices will you follow?

The fact is that most IT personnel get some information from sources like the web but also, in many cases, they are following the data centre equipment suppliers advice. This can be very confusing as they all seem to claim different "what is best for you" scenarios. Tuckers delivers a range of vendor neutral services helping you to evaluate your design, ensuring that it meets your business requirements. If required, we can take it to the next level whereby we will validate your design against certain standards such as ANSI/TIA-942, Bicsi and other applicable standards. We will ensure that you will be able to receive certification once your design is validated by us ensuring you get the most out of your money. Why work with Tuckers?

Obviously, many players in the market claim to be able to provide consulting, training, audit and certification services. However, most of these companies are either data centre builders or are affiliated with data centre builders or data centre equipment suppliers in order to achieve cross selling. These players tend to market at (very) low prices as they consider the assessment a 'loss leader' which enables them to grab more business later after they have provided many "recommendations" for improvement involving often the purchase of new equipment which they happen to deliver.

Tuckers stands out in many ways:

• Totally independent and not related nor affiliated with any data center builder, construction company or equipment manufacturer. Therefore, we are able to give a totally objective and neutral advice.
• We are part of the team of subject matter experts which is responsible developing the training materials for TIA942 and Bicsi Data Centre courses and also delivering the professional development programmes with our partners. Consequently we have intimate knowledge of these standards through real world experience and education across the globe .
• We have international experience all over the world and are therefore aware of both international as well as local norms and standards.
• We have a focus and in-depth knowledge of hi-availability and mission critical data centers including new technologies and its impact on the data center. We have knowledge on both IT as well as facilities and are able to combine this knowledge where others are either knowledgeable in only one of these aspects. We understand the big picture .
• We have very experienced staffs whom have been involved in hundreds of data center reviews for small to extremely large mission critical data centers.
• Tuckers provides world-wide accredited certified data center professional and IT-managers courses which indicate that we are on the leading edge of technology and are well recognized in the industry as the data center experts!

Survey, Audit & Certification

Once your new data center has been built, you want to ensure that it has been built according to the applicable standards and international best practices. It is a known fact that some contractors 'cut corners'. Sometimes due to the immense price pressure, or sometimes they simply overlooked aspects or just delivered poor workmanship in some extreme cases.

Tuckers delivers a wide range of audit and certification services aimed at newly built facilities as well as existing facilities. Often standards such as ANSI/TIA-942, Bicsi are taken as the basis for these audits. Leave it to Tuckers and we will guarantee that you get what you require; a data center that meets your business requirements, benchmarked against international standards and guidelines.