MeshBlox Micro Data Centres

The housing of corporate IT capacity involves a balancing act with multiple dilemmas.

• Accommodating ever growing demand while controlling costs
• Maintaining infrastructure control while accepting the risks of external provision
• Servicing the dynamic needs of fast changing business while avoiding the constraints imposed by inflexible infrastructure
• Maintaining services and corporate cohesion as a business expands across geographies and markets

And a host of other challenges.

Running your corporate IT from your own server room sounds like the right approach, but it can bring a host of costs, complications and challenges:

• • Server rooms can take months to design, build, equip, test and handover
• • They cost a lot to deploy and often just get junked when the business outgrows it’s associated office space
• • The “put-right” costs of decommissioning a server room can add a nasty hit to relocation costs
• • Landlords and lease terms can constrain a business if the building floorplan or HVAC capacities can’t accommodate IT expansion
• • Office buildings are not designed to house large IT infrastructures. The result is often design and operational compromises that make corporate server rooms an on-going business and cost burden
• • Cheap server room get teated as such and become an operational nightmare

Small to medium size businesses that choose the external data centre option can strike another set of challenges:

• • Network capacity is expensive and business bandwidth needs keep expanding
• • Data Centre services bring with them a hosts of somewhat hidden, but significant costs – power, move add & change requests, after hours access, excess bandwidth capacity fees
• • Latency can be a constant frustration to staff and business inefficiency
• • When IT goes wrong, your hardware is well out of reach
• • Facility operators place unrealistic restrictions on what technology or network connectivity you can deploy
• • Data centre operators may claim Tier II or Tier III availability, but this is difficult to validate until disaster strikes and it’s all too late

“Beat the IT housing challenge”

DataBlox provides a new approach to corporate IT infrastructure provision and management.  DataBlox can help address many of the IT provisioning dilemmas while also dealing with the costs, complications and challenges associated with on-premises server rooms and external data centre services.

DataBlox lets you control your own IT infrastructure, keep it within reach, readily accommodate expansion or change, and do so at lower cost than the current standard approaches.   DataBlox is a highly engineered solution that addresses all of the common concerns over physical and operational security, service availability, power and cooling system reliability and redundancy, risk management, capital expenditure and operating cost.  DataBlox provides a real alternative, and in many instances the best approach to solving the corporate IT housing dilemma.

“Forget Complexity – Lets simplfy”

The robust and compact DataBlox system can be readily accommodated in many corporate settings.  In particular, business located in standalone buildings or office parks commonly have site space that can accommodate a DataBlox installation.  In the office block setting MeshBlox will work with clients to locate and secure suitable fringe-of-CBD sites where their DataBlox can be accommodated in each of the state capital cities.

Whether it is just a part, or the core of your IT infrastructure, DataBlox provides the solution .  Those critical services suffering network latency back to a distant datacenter could be readily transferred to a DataBlox and be brought with instant reach of your users.  DataBlox might also be used as part of a disaster recovery strategy or part of a system redundancy strategy.  Or DataBlox could be your single solution for rapidly expanding businesses that need to support new offices or branches while controlling IT costs and making new services provision a standardized and repeatable undertaking.

“Modular disaster recovery  all in one box”

DataBlox provides the easy, low cost and manageable solution that will grow with your business. Concentrate on delivering quality applications to your users and let DataBlox solve your Infrastructure challenge.  All the benefits of the standard approach, plus more, but keeping you in control and costs contained.