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Business Case

Deploying Kell ServerVaultâ„¢ compared to building computer rooms

Based on a 60-person office with 9 x servers, switches, patching, UPS, KVM and tape backup

Build a computer room:     Deploy a Kell model PSE38:
       
Typical budget $20k to $30k $6k
       
Typical floor space100 sq. ft. 9 sq. ft.
       
Typical aircon electrical usage 3,600 Watts 57 Watts
       
Fault tolerance driven by conditioning Greater reliability
  Wholly reliant on dedicated room air con
Servers overheat and shut down if it fails
Small body of room air = short overheat time
Restoration by specialist engineer call-out
   
  Uses room air in open office, with aircon or not
Large body of room air = long overheat time
Simple, hot-swappable fan modules:
much less complex than aircon
average life of service of fans is >8 years
Hold a spare fan module = instant up-time
       
Deployment timetable 4 to 6 months Deployment in 1 to 2 weeks
  Internal resources needed for planning
Landlord approval drawings and timescales
Landlord can be a problem in old buildings
Construction disruption and lead time
Aircon machinery and ducting lead time Stand-alone rack ground strap system required
Anti-static flooring required
   
  Typically available ex-inventory
Delivered fully built and plug-and-play ready
No stand-alone ground strap system required
No anti-static flooring required
       
Scalability Scalability
  Repeat as above
   
  Just add another Kell Systems ServerVaultâ„¢
       
Zero portability Full portability
 

Sunk cost not recoverable if you move.
Landlord requires restoration as-was.

   
  You can take it with you when you move
Repeat above economies in your new building

 

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What They Say About Us
"The acoustic cabinet is now fully installed and the performance is terrific! It's greatly improved our office working environment and I'd happily recommend your product to others in the future. Thank you again for your assistance and excellent service."

Quenifer Lee
Director, Asia Pacific, 5+Design

"The soundproofing is extremely effective, and so is the cooling system. There was no floor space or budget for a computer room, so we used a Kell PSE instead. It takes up less floor space, it cost less, and it looks good too.";

Jason Sadler
The Geodata Institute
University of Southampton

"We recently purchased 4 Kell 38U Cabinets for 3 of our regional offices and as you can imagine we are very pleased with the purchases."

Scott Greenwood
IT Infrastructure Project Manager, Money Portal Plc

"The rack we installed was lovely, very easy to work with, and the best bit was having racked all the kit, when we closed the doors finally, absolutely everyone´s head came up because all the noise just vanished. They were most impressed"
Gordon Watson
81G.org

"The Kell rack was installed, it looks great and does the job, many thanks."

William Fullerton
Systems Administrator, Dialog Semiconductor

Very tight for space in our office, I have two people working in the same room as our computer servers. The new Kell System cabinet has eliminated all high frequency server noise and all we can hear are the low frequency fans. Kind of like the noise of our office central a/c system, nothing more or worse. This is a small room, we have no issue with sound since this cabinet arrived. The build quality is amazing.

Michael J. Kravit, AIA, NCARB, RA
President, Kravit Architectural Associates, Inc.

"When you take into account the cost of demountable partitioning and installing dedicated air conditioning, plus the hardware cost of basic data racks, we estimate that by using Kell's quiet enclosures we save approximately 59% per site, and that’s before taking into account the reduced floor space costs," said Peter Morris, Head of Towergate's property management unit. He adds "We have deployed several of these already and we're exceptionally impressed with the cooling system and the noise reduction performance. We haven't looked back on the decision."

“The soundproofing is so effective that we have staff working just 2 metres away from the fully configured server installation. The server cabinet runs very quietly and looks great, the staff don’t even notice it’s there.” says Marin Cragg, Head of Networking for the National School of Government.