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This week we hit a major milestone taget – getting the internal “heavy” construction complete, and taking delivery of the first 4 racks to go in the Sheffield Data Centre.

All the major work within the computer room is now complete, and we can turn our attention to cleaning and removing waste from the computer room.  Elsewhere the carpet tiles have been delivered and are being installed, the air-conditioners are due to be gassed next week and the first phase of Cat6 wiring has begun.  We should also be able to use our office as an office from next week!

The first four racks are due to be positioned Monday, these racks are for the internal comms, CCTV, fibre, infrastructure servers etc… and for the first phase of customer colocation.  Extra racks are on order and will be delivered when appropriate.

We’ll be making an “opening” announcement very soon - but we’re committed to having the first phase of colocation live before the end of June.  Check the blog next week for updates.

Latest pictures…

Computer room construction complete

Rack van

...here they come

First 4 racks ready to be installed next week

The Sheffield Data Centre website has been updated and is available at:

http://www.sheffielddatacentre.com

We’ve added the Half Rack specification, updated some details, and given the home page a make-over.

Also, we’ve updated the High Availability Hosting website, if you get a spare minute and want to know more about the company in general, as well as browse our other services including our VMware Hosted Dedicated Servers – pop over to:

http://www.hahosting.com

Back at the Data Centre – the raised floor under the rack locations has been layed, and is now being levelled (which is a very slow job!), the Cat6 cable is expected on site early next week ready for pulling, and the “Fire Door Keep Shut” signs have arrived!  *smile*.

Happy bank holiday everyone!

- Stuart.

- EDIT – latest internal pics!

Raised floor - towards office

Raised floor - towards loading bay

BT Openreach were on site yesterday to install the B-Side of our 100Mbit fibre connection to Virgin Media.

The fibre installation at our end went smoothly, and Openreach have left a loop connector in place so they can begin loopback testing from the A-Side (at Virgin Media / Telewest / NTL).

Elsewhere on site more raised access floor has been layed, and more wiring for emergency lights, CCTV and security has been installed.

Pics to follow soon!!

Another milestone passed!  The computer room is on it’s own lighting and power circuits!  All the temporary lights and sockets have now been removed, and the final lighting grid (complete with emergency bulkheads) are in place.  The decorating is (nearly) complete – just the touch-ups left to do where people have been unkind enough to drill holes for wires and the like  ;-) 

 

Lights being installed in the computer room

Finished lights

After nearly a week of waiting (so much for the next day service!) the raised access floor arrives on site!  Thanks must go to the nice chap with the forklift too  :-)

Floor tiles arrive on site

Cabling works are scheduled to start straight after the bank holiday, with cable trays and commando sockets being installed as the floor goes down, next week is set to be another busy one… watch this space!!!