Fima, the leader of intelligent engineering solutions in Lithuania will design one of the largest and of a highest availability data centre in Lithuania. The plans are that this data centre of Baltnetos Komunikacijos will be the first in the country to meet the requirements for a particularly high level availability, level three. Investments into building and installing of the centre will total EUR 3 million.
“This will be one of the largest and most advanced data centres in our country that will be subject to very high availability and energy efficiency requirements. Estimations have shown that power consumption accounts for nearly a half of the cost to run data centres therefore one of the key tasks of designing modern centres is to optimise the energy outlay,” Valdas Vrubliauskas, the director of Fima Automation and data network solutions department has said.
Once the project is over, domestic companies will have a possibility to use a data centre of high availability. “Banks, malls, card systems, other companies that can be aggravated by any failure in the systems will benefit from this centre in a way that it will ensure highly reliable functioning of all systems. The sustained operation will be guaranteed even in cases of force majeure circumstances. This will be the first data centre in Lithuania to meet international standards for the level-three availability. It means that the systems have to be operational without any interruptions 99.982 per cent of the time,” said the data centre deployment expert.
According to the data centre installation company, it will also serve companies or organisations that wish to switch from in-house IT systems or do not have the resources to develop their IT. “We have noticed the trend where workstations are very often being moved to virtual space, more and more processes are being automated, the flows of information stored are increasing and there is a bigger than ever demand to protect the information, which leads to an increased need for data centres,” Mindaugas Pranskevičius, the General Manager of Baltnetos Komunikacijos has said. The plans are that this new 800 square-metre data centre will start operation in the winter of 2011.
Fima will carry out the entire designing of the data centre, from the construction part to low voltage system parts.Designed and built under modern modular concept, the data centre can be easily expandable with a rather limited investment: all it will take is to attach an additional module. When developing projects for modern data centres, Fima uses the modern computerised simulation software that helps to avoid errors in design.
Data centres have been undergoing vigorous development lately. Over the past five years, Fima alone has deployed several dozen state-of-the-art data centres for Lietuvos Geležinkeliai, Lietuvos Energija, Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, the Ministry of the Interior as well as several centres for Baltic Data Center, to name a few.
