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Data centres

Your data centre is a critical component of support to your business.  Frame translates your business needs into strategic requirements to assist you in designing, relocating, constructing or reshaping your data centre.  Our data centre services encompass:

Data centre strategy and planning

  • Feasibility studies and project cost budgeting
  • Availability and risk assessment
  • Options and cost analysis (in-house, outsource)
  • Site selection
  • Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
  • Relocation evaluation and planning

Data centre design

  • Functional brief including functional criteria
  • Architectural and engineering design services
  • Communications and data cabling design services
  • Support infrastructure design services
  • Network operations centre design services

Data centre implementation

  • Project management
  • Owners representation and superintendency
  • Construction management
  • Contractor management
  • Equipment installation services
  • Relocation coordination
  • Information technology implementation
  • General contracting
  • Commissioning

Data centre operations and maintenance

  • Technical support and operations review
  • Operations manuals development 

Envisioning a data centre solution to fit your business
The Frame Group data centre servicesA set of comprehensive and accurate business requirements forms the foundation of any successful data centre project.  Our experience allows us to facilitate discussions across property, technical and business divisions, resulting in a functional brief that accurately reflects your vision.

Frame conducts a review and then works with you to scope floor space, availability and redundancy, layout, power, cooling, security and other requirements.

We develop the framework and migration technology plans for your data centre infrastructure to assess, scope, source and manage contractors and builders, and assist with the vital relocation of equipment and staff.

And Frame can design and build solutions that are engineered to help you meet your environmental sustainability goals and attain a data centre that is realistically and demonstrably green. 

Make us your trusted adviser
Frame has developed a reputation for on-time and on-budget delivery of complex, high-quality data centre projects.

You benefit from our best-practice knowledge, design skills, engineering support, project management and reporting, to get your data centre up and running on the most sustainable footing.

Frame actively participates in local and international industry forums and user groups.  This provides you with a conduit of new ideas and technologies from other data centre professionals.  And it enables us to adapt a global perspective to the local environment.

          
 

   

Downloads

Data centres
Download a printable version of Frame's data centre capability.
 
Continuity and recovery planning
Find out more about Frame's continuity and recovery planning services.
 
Asset audit
Do you know exactly what assets you have, where they are, whether they're being used, and what state they're in?  Find out how Frame can help.

Functional creep in data centres
Have you counted the cost of functional creep in your data centre?  In this white paper, Frame's Greg Goode discusses the blurred line between facility infrastructure and IT systems.
 
Data centre in a container
This briefing paper explores the data centre containerisation industry and what the data centre in a container product means to the data centre paradigm.

 

          
 
Case studies

Developing a data centre strategy and roadmap for 2025
A major Australian financial services organisation required a strategy for its data centre facilities, with a financial model and implementation roadmap to see them through to 2025.  Frame was uniquely positioned to provide the required solution, having extensive success and experience delivering similar strategies within major corporates.

 
Building a sustainable data centre
At Lend Lease's headquarters at 30 the bond, the data centre was designed and constructed as a showcase. With the highest rating for energy sustainability, the tier-4 data centre is supported with a totally converged IP network of voice, data, video and power management.

          
 

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