Q1) You have been hired as an independent contractor to support a company in designing a new datacenter for its existing complement of 16 Unix servers, 32 Windows servers, and 10 racks of network and voice communication equipment. Right now, the company is looking at a suburban location, located approximately 2-30 minutes away from a major metropolitian center and approximately 5-10 minutes off of a major highway. In addition, the city it is moving to is adjacent to a river that floods every other year.

You are expected to provide recommendations for the design of the data center, discuss the challenges in modern data center design based on the information provided, and provide a list of physical security suggestions for the datacenter.

Assignment Guidelines

Create an 8-10 slide PowerPoint presentation (excluding title slide and reference slides) that will be shown to the head of the company that addresses the following:

How would you recommend that the data center be designed?

Based on the information in the assignment description, what are the challenges that you will face when designing this data center? Explain.
What are the physical security issues that should be addressed when designing the data center? Explain.

Provide a 6-10 slide PowerPoint presentation describing your suggestions on how the data center should designed. Please be sure that your assignment adheres to the assignment guidelines.