Data Center Consulting

This page offers several  options of Data Center consulting services. 

Our certified data scientist and engineers will work to help you achieve a vital, data-driven view and see your business differently. We focus on realistic business outcomes. Our team bridges the data science gaps by blending business, design and programming talent with years of experience. Our team has experience using most open source programming languages and tools such as R, Anaconda, and Python, as well as commercial packages like Microsoft Excel, Power BI and Tableau. The shift from enterprise requirements to innovative thinking in the business analytic sector has given a lot of traction to competitive data discovery.

If you are tired of searching through raw data and want meaningful repeatable graphic reports, we can help. Like the early telescopes, which gave humans a new perspective of our universe, viewing your organization through a data lens provides a new way to understand your business.

Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions add tracking and configuration management capabilities to data center management for physical assets and logical resources found in the data center, unifying the facilities and IT domains into a single, coherent managed information source.

At a high level, a DCIM solution bridges the gap between the physical plant and the IT side of the data center. This bridging function allows monitoring as well as adjustment based on real time and anticipated IT load requirements, together resulting in improved energy efficiency. DCIM deployments provide information on operational monitoring, management and intelligent capacity planning of a data center’s critical systems; they deliver this feature by employing specialized software, hardware and sensors. These hardware devices and sensors create a fabric of connections, utilizing protocols like SNMP, Lontalk, manufacturer codes, etc. 

Several vendors identify their offerings to be part of the DCIM category; depending on who you ask and what type of DCIM solution, (full suite, partial suite, hardware, software, capacity planning, high-fidelity visualization, real-time monitoring, cable/connectivity management, environmental/energy sensors, business analytics including financial modeling, process/change management, and integration with various types of external management systems and data sources).  Therefore, more than a dozen vendors sell a DCIM product. This creates a confusing arrangement of products that may fill some needs and not interface well with others. Customers who successfully deploy DCIM are driven by a myriad of industry and government standard metrics intended to provide cost-effective planning and operations support for the data center. Examples of these include Power Utilization Effectiveness (PUE), Carbon Usage Effectivness (CUE) and Data Center Energy Productivity (DCeP)– as well as vendor-driven metrics such as PAR4 – Server Power Usage Data Center Predictive Modeling  and (DCPM). Some of them have multiple ways of being calculated which adds to the confusion.

We have delivered DCIM selection, installation and configuration services to some of the largest corporations in the world. Our experience includes creating development, pilot, and production environments using products from most of the major DCIM vendors. This breadth of experience with many different product sets allows us to provide our customers with keen insight into what will work in their environment, and which tools interface and scale to meet future needs. Best of all, our team works with your staff to give them the opportunity for the education needed to keep the systems in tune and grow the system when required.

The plain truth is that, if you want to get a great return on your investment, you need an expert to help your team optimize the configuration of the interface, configure the SNMP traps, derive set points for the data being captured, and analysis to optimize the process and close in on your energy efficiency targets.

Please contact us today and let us be the bright light that cuts through this fog and puts your team on the right path.

https://sinenomine.net/index.php/contact/Sine Nomine Associates pioneered the healthier NOC and has over 20 years of experience in creating mission critical facilities, utilizing advanced technology to make buildings healthier for the occupants. We are offering a service that provides recommendations for making buildings, workspaces and homes healthier environments.

  • Does it seem like your sick time rates are increasing?
  • Do you wonder if your building or home are making people sick or reducing your work efficiency?
  • Would you be interested if we told you new strains of common diseases are becoming more drug resistant? 
  • Would you be interested if we told you a recent Harvard study found green buildings improved human performance levels?
  • What if we told you we have the answers that can reverse the trend, improve safety, kill the germs before they spread through the workplace and improve your work efficiency? 
  • Would you fill in our “contact us” form if we told you we have done this for hundreds of customers with proven results?

In 2016, a Harvard health review found that new strains of diseases are becoming more resistant to drug treatments: “If we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine.” – David Cameron, UK Prime Minister 

Dodge Data and Analytics recently published a report which found green buildings improved human performance in the following ways:

  •     Information storage enhanced 299%
  •     Strategic thinking enhanced 288%
  •     Crisis response enhanced 131%
  •     Focused activity level enhanced 48%
  •     Breadth of approach enhanced 47%

Sine Nomine Associates uses a combination of tools and interviews to analyze your building interior design plans or the existing environment, and creates a set of recommendations with metrics that can be applied to those plans.

Best of all, our process only requires a 2 week commitment, on average.

Sine Nomine Associates hopes you will contact us so we can get started helping you achieve your dream environment.

Sine Nomine Associates offers Data Center Evaluation and Analysis services; Enterprise Command Centers are our specialty. Within just weeks, we conduct a thorough and comprehensive review and analysis. The result is a plan that maps options and technical alternatives to your time frames, philosophies, short-term and long-term strategic objectives, as well as budgetary guidelines.

Here are some project examples: 

  • Data Center “Hybrid” Assessments
  • Carbon Footprint
  • Green Initiatives
  • Facility Evaluations / Conceptual Design / Interior Design
  • Reliability Studies
  • Single Point of Failure Analysis
  • Data Center Facility Audits
  • DR Facility Requirement Studies
  • Colocation/Cloud Analysis
  • Container/Pod Studies
  • Cloud Impact
  • Relocation Evaluations
  • Merger/Consolidation Studies
  • Space Planning
  • Computer Equipment Planning
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Preliminary Program Studies
  • IT/Data Center Strategic Planning
  • Colocation Impact Planning
  • Cybersecurity
  • Short Circuit Coordination and ArcFlash Studies
  • Site Evaluation, Selection,& Planning
  • Network Analysis/WiFi Analysis
  • Total Cost of Ownership Studies
  • Virtualization Integration
  • Edge Computing
  • Thermal Air Flow Analysis
  • Energy Efficiency Audits
  • IT Business Impact Analysis
  • Site Assessment Evaluations

Our world-class Enterprise Command Center team specializes in empowering customers globally by realizing each customer’s dream of a high-technology, user-friendly workspace.

While each project is different, we consistently create winning outcomes by following industry guidelines and using a standardized modular approach, which allows customers to select the services components they need. In initial meetings and interviews, our team gathers information and artifacts. The project progresses iteratively, resulting in a set of finalized drawings coupled with a detailed a recommendations report. Throughout the engagement, our experts lend their rich knowledge to the customer team.

We differentiate between physical and logical design aspects: 

Physical Design

Our proven physical design experts apply architectural institute methods when creating a 3D view of the proposed environment.

  1. A simple concept drawing incorporates the various architectural standards.
  2. In iterative meetings, the concept drawing is refined into a schematic view and a list of design features.
  3. Finally, an architectural design reflecting customer preferences may be handed off to their facilities team and/or their selected architect.
Logical Design

Our exceptional logical design team works through six stages in concert:

  • Measurement and Metrics
  • Organization and Governance
  • Tools and Technology
  • Process and Procedure
  • Skills and Resources
  • Knowledge Management
  1. The team captures and records the current state of affairs.
  2. Comprehensive analysis results in short-, medium-, and long-term improvement recommendations (3, 6, 12 months, respectively). Each recommendation maps to specific benefits.
  3. An executive presentation is composed and delivered.