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THE ULTIMATE PROTECTION FOR INVESTORS AND ALL STAKEHOLDERS

With the objective of providing Data Centre investors with the comfort of a proven, pre-determined gold standard of reliability and performance, Cannon has invested significantly in gaining “UPTIME” pre-certification of its specifications and detailed designs for a wide range of high performance, ultra-efficient CANNON DATA CAMPUS facilities.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW UPTIME PRE-CERTIFICATION PROTECTS INVESTORS

An investment in a Data Centre yields high financial returns if the facility stays fully operational and is generating income or fulfilling critical mission objectives.

This positive availability is measured and defined as “UPTIME”.

If a facility experiences periods of operational failure, i.e. “DOWNTIME” then damaging financial losses will negatively impact the investor.  Furthermore, the facility will be viewed as unreliable by potential users, who will walk away.

Predictable and measurable reliability is KING in this sector.

A Data Centre comprises a vast number of differing technical components, all which challenge reliability, having the potential of failure.  Reliability is increased by applying deep engineering knowledge and by carefully and skilfully designing “Resilience” into the facility.

Resilience is achieved by the engineering process of duplicating key systems such as power and cooling, so that a failure in one system is instantly compensated for by a parallel alternative system.

This practice enables non-disruptive, preventative maintenance, as well as providing insurance against cataclysmic DOWNTIME; This carefully constructed and complex duplication of critical systems ensures continuous “UPTIME” to a significant level.

The complexity of selecting truly reliable, proven components and avoiding components of low reliability, together with ability to avoid hidden points of failure in the design scheme, is sadly not a set of virtues applied to all Data Centre designs.

Hence, Data Centre break down all too often occurs, with damaging financial impact, generating a lack of confidence for that facility, or for the Brand, if operating in the commercial market.

AN INADEQUATE DESIGN WILL ALWAYS BE A POOR DESIGN AND IS USUALLY NON-RECOVERABLE

A PRE-CERTIFIED DESIGN ATTRACTS USERS AND POSITIVELY DRIVES THE VENTURE

Pre-certification of a design by the highly experienced, professional, and independent “UPTIME INSTITUTE” ensures that globally recognised, best design practice has been adopted.  Also, critically important, is the fact that the design has been independently analysed to ensure that for “TIER III” certification, the required dual systems have no hidden and dangerous points of failure.

The technical investigations carried out by the independent UPTIME INSTITUTE are exhaustive and penetrate down to minute detail.  Technical queries and responses have to flow back and forth between hundreds of participators, including widely dispersed equipment manufacturers, discrete component suppliers, specifiers and design and test engineers.

This highly complex process requires extensive management application and prolonged dedication by many engineers across wide ranging disciplines.

It is not unusual for such a process to take two years before a solid certifiable design is achieved, for one single design.  The process for the Cannon Pre-Certified Portfolio of multiple specifications has taken over three years.

It is therefore understandable that very few Data Centre designs offered to the market have achieved the status of Pre- Certification by the UPTIME INSTITUTE,

the leading Independent authority in the world and the leading provider of critical independent technical audit, available to authenticate financial investment plans in the Data Centre sector.

CANNON HAS INVESTED SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES, OVER A PROLONGED PERIOD, WORKING WITH THE UPTIME INSTITUTE, TO CREATE PRE-CERTIFIED “TIER 111” DATA CENTRE DESIGNS, ACROSS A BROAD RANGE OF CAPACITIES.

Currently, the Cannon Portfolio of “UPTIME PRE-CERTIFIED” DATA CAMPUS facilities enable almost any size facility to be provided by combining all of these pre-certified capacities in any mix of combinations.

The range in this portfolio enables almost any size Data Centre project to be rapidly created with assured compliance to Tier III resilience.

The current certification portfolio includes:

  • 100kw
  • 250kw
  • 500kw
  • 1000kw (1Mw)

Multiple Megawatt facilities can be created with these building blocks.

STATUS

The 100-kw certification process is complete, and certification has been issued and the further three capacities follow identical design concepts and are in the final phases of the certification process.

These additional certifications are imminent, as of August 2020.

CANNON NOW COMBINES IT’S ACKNOWLEDGED GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AND MULTIPLE GLOBAL AWARDS WITH THE POWERFUL INVESTOR BENEFIT OF PRE-CERTIFICATION AT TIER III, BY THE INDEPENDENT UPTIME INSTITUTE

The Cannon Data Campus portfolio has received over twenty national and international awards and repeatedly received the accolade of GLOBAL LEADERSHIP.  Green awards and Complex Deployment awards have also been received.

The MATRIX construction of the Cannon Data Campus range enables any size facility to be provided, from small EDGE to Multi Megawatt facilities.

With Cannon Matrix, Cannon uses a fully integrated build system developed and improved over forty plus years, comprising Cannon’s precision standard components throughout. The outcome is therefore equally predictable and controllable, avoiding costly project drift.

The Cannon Matrix system uniquely enables the complete Data Hall to be internally equipped, at the same time and in parallel with the whole exterior construction. The whole construction and equipping task progress in parallel, avoiding the costly and time-consuming need for complex project management of follow on trades.

Traditional builds require months of expensive follow on trades together with unforeseen delays and associated cost and pain.

The Cannon pre-existing system and integrated capability enables extremely rapid configuration and layout of any new Data Centre concept and the need for an initial blank paper design and months of design effort, now disappears.

The time taken for the design phase is now reduced from months or years to only a few days, subject to customer specific requirements, which are usually accommodated with ease.

The process is quicker, much less complicated, faster to completion and poses less dangers to investors than is experienced with traditional old-fashioned constructions.

NOW TOPPED OFF WITH THE FINANCIAL ADVANTAGES OF PRE-CERTIFICATION TO TIER III RESILIENCE

With the addition of the latest innovation of Pre-Certification to TIER III, by the independent UPTIME INSTITUTE, shrewd investors at last have a solid opportunity to reduce the downside negatives of potential investment decisions.

Final certification carried out by an audit of the fully commissioned TIER III facility is virtually routine and removes the historical pain and cost of creeping non-compliance during construction, to final TIER III certification.