| Shen Milsom
& Wilke offers a rare combination of disciplines and experience.
Designing both data centers and trading floors involves a series
of steps taken in concert with the architect, engineer, and client.
There is no single solution and the same approach does not satisfy
the needs of every organization.
Data Centers
When upgrading or building a new data center, the costs grow exponentially
as reliability goals rise to the ultimate 99.99 percent rating.
Yet weighing risk against investment is a tricky proposition. Business
planners must consider how much lost data, broken equipment, or,
perhaps worst of all, a damaged reputation, will cost their business
if their data center malfunctions. To maximize the data center budget
and operations, we offer the following services:
Data centers assessments
To save the client time and money, we get involved early—before
the design of the physical space begins—to examine the following
questions:
What is the client’s level of technological sophistication? What
is the normal lifecycle of technology for that client? What is the
duration of the building lease? Is the business growing steadily
or cyclically? How will this affect the computer services? How critical
is it that services continue, despite disastrous situations? Once
these questions are answered, we can begin to balance the many factors
that affect the data center design.
Audits of existing data centers
Evolving technology has a significant impact on design. Hardware,
for example, is getting smaller but there is more of it and it is
more densely packed. Higher density servers and storage devices
require more concentrated power and produce higher heat loads. Understanding
how all these systems work together is critical.
We have saved our clients $250,000 and more
by recommending more efficient designs and providing a higher level
of data center reliability.
Data center design
Design is based on a thorough understanding of client requirements.
Services include cable infrastructure and management, power, air
conditioning, physical layout, racks and cabinets, fire suppression,
and security.
Construction Administration
Commissioning and user training
Trading Floors
Assessment of trading floor needs
Audit of existing trading floors
Technology changes rapidly in financial business
environments. We specialize in understanding how to incorporated new
systems and, at the same time, saving clients money and making their
operations more efficient. Design
Technology focuses on the convergence of voice, data, and video.
Our work includes evaluating telephone systems--Voice over IP and
computer telephony integration applications, such as call statistics,
screen pops to databases (both customer and risk/position), and
automated attendant functions (intelligent voice mail) as well as
traditional turret systems.
Also, we design cabling infrastructure, including
structured cabling systems, network design, and security, and photonic
trading floor, where optical fiber is used for both vertical and horizontal
cabling. Network design for financial applications concentrates on
stability, speed, and expanded bandwidth using "flat" switched
Ethernet LAN topologies with few aggregation layers. Construction
Administration
Commissioning and user training |
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