Datacenter Relocation for a Software Design Company

Founded in the early 1980’s this company has provided the broadest portfolio in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Their products are leveraged in manufacturing, architecture, building, construction, and media and entertainment industries.

Founded in the early 1980’s “The Company” has provided the broadest portfolio in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software. Their products are leveraged in manufacturing, architecture, building, construction, and media and entertainment industries. In addition to state-of-the-art desktop applications, “The Company” develops apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Android.

After assisting “The Customer” with their disaster recovery site 10 years prior and a continued strategic advisor relationship, ACS was selected to install a new data center is located on the east coast. The Client’s” data center project required the procurement, staging, configuring, testing, and integrating multi-vendor hardware, software, and networking solutions.

ACS made sure the configuration was correct, re-boxed equipment, shipped equipment across the country and then implemented the solutions at the new data center facility.
One of the major contributions to the success of the data center relocation project was ACS well-executed discovery and design services. Staging the project in the Sunnyvale location enabled ACS to identify issues with equipment and configurations prior to bringing the data center live.

Due to ACS’s expertise in all aspects of data center integration, “The Customer”, was able to avoid significant costs and project delays. “The Client” was extremely happy with the results and ACS continues to be a strategic partner for planning, designing, and implementing additional projects.

Highlights of the project’s results are as follows:

Significant savings in power and cooling costs, leveraging the local integration center saved tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenditures, local trouble shooting with equipment manufacturer prior to shipping equipment eliminated long distance trouble shooting and preserved the project timeline, and most importantly completing the project on-time “The Customer” was able to terminate their data center lease as planned and not incur additional lease fees.