You shouldn’t have to be located in the Silicon Valley or New York City to get the data center you need. Chances are your company chose your location for many good business reasons. If that where you want your data center then that’s where it should be. Each Compass standalone data center is built using our patent pending Truly Modular Architecture. This enables us to provide you with a data center that is dedicated to you, hardened to provide a permanent solution, Tier III* certified to ensure that your facility delivers a standards-based level of reliability, LEED Gold compliant for enhanced efficiency and untethered by geographic constraints so it can be located where you need it. Your Compass data center is only delivered after a fully integrated systems test (Level 5) commissioning performed by HP-EYP to ensure that every system is concurrently maintainable and ready to support your critical business applications. With our shrink wrapped off the shelf approach everything is included.

WhitePaperIconTo learn how all modular data centers are not the same, read our white paper, “The Modular Data Center Conundrum”.

A Standards-Based Data Center Where You Need It

Your shrink-wrapped standalone Compass data center arrives fully Level 5 commissioned to ensure that every system is concurrently maintainable and delivers the level of uptime specified by the Uptime Institute’s Tier III* standard via our 2N power architecture to support your important business applications.

By building each of our data centers to the independent and industry leading standards established by the Uptime Institute and the US Green Building Council (USGBC), Compass enhances the assuredness of your decision making process. You have the security of knowing that your new data center will operate to recognized standards for reliability and efficiency. By building your facility to these standards, Compass ensures that your data center can support your critical applications in the most reliable and cost effective manner possible.

Tier III Certified Design

LEED GOLD Data Centers

A Hardened Solution

Your Compass data center provides you with a permanent solution. This means that it has been hardened to withstand extreme environmental conditions. Each Compass data center is encased within a shell made up of 12” thick, steel reinforced insulated pre-cast concrete walls. An 18” multilayered roof, that includes a 4” concrete slab, provides a Level 1.5 seismic importance factor and enables it to withstand winds (including uplift) of up to 149mph (the equivalent of a Level 4 Hurricane). The incorporation of this hardened exterior enables you to locate your Compass data center wherever you need it, without having to design, build, and pay for a structure of your own, as is the case with many pre-fabricated data center alternatives.

This is a clear differentiator for Compass Datacenters as our competitors simply don’t provide the quality and strength of the data center shell that we do.

Hardened Data Center Diagram

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A Versatile Design

Truly Modular Data Center Floor Plan - Internal View
If you’ve ever sat behind a foul pole at a baseball game you know what a pain columns can be. That’s why your 10,000 square feet of 36” raised floor is column free. At Compass, your data center floor accommodates anything from a tape library or a Cisco 7000 with side-to-side airflow to OpenCompute’s new larger rack sizes. This degree of flexibility even extends to cable management to support your preference whether its above the rack, hanging from the ceiling, or below the floor. At Compass, the only option you don’t have is to strand your IT capacity.

Speaking of your data center floor flexibility, can you control how much the software uses of the server and storage capacity? We didn’t think so. The reality of the world is that most software does not drive the full use of the server (virtualized or otherwise). As a result, it’s tough to predict what your actual usage will be from rack-to-rack. Not to mention the patch, network and storage…That’s why your Compass solution will support rack densities that cover the spectrum up to 20kW without containment (from 0 to 400 W/sf). Just imagine what you can do using ASHRAE TC 9.9 best practices including containment.

Simplified Capacity Planning and Expansion

Compass Connect enables you to expand in
1.2MW increments
Paying for “future” data center capacity you’re not using in a shell or building based solution isn’t terribly cost effective. Actually it’s pretty darn expensive. That’s why we developed our CompassConnect™ methodology. CompassConnect is the patent pending design concept that reduces the cost of growth and simplifies your capacity planning by enabling you to expand in 1.2MW, 10,000 square foot increments. In the Compass Truly Modular architecture the data center is the module.

Security Features Ian Fleming Would Admire

Data Center Security | Compass Datacenters
There is probably no price that you could put on the value delivered by the applications that reside within your data center. In fact, based on our experience, security is one of the top considerations for any company considering a new data center. Each Compass standalone data center includes an array of security features even James Bond’s Q would love including:

  • Multi-level authentication
    • Biometric scanners and card readers
    • Man trap
  • Hardened security station
    • Ballistic rated level III windows
    • Ballistic shielding at the security station
  • Digital security cameras with video recording
  • Exterior security lighting

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