Seznam CZ - Turnkey Solution EN

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FULL-SCALE TURNKEY
DATA CENTRE SOLUTION
for Seznam.cz
The Seznam.cz Company is one of the oldest portals on the Czech market and has
maintained its position on the Internet
market since 1996. The Czech-owned company has been operating the Seznam.cz
portal, which covers a wide range of services such as a search engine, news, a catalogue of companies, a maps and comprehensive digital multimedia content.
The core of its business is data centres, which support
and provide the necessary input for all activities of Seznam.cz. Due to the growing amount of data, Seznam.cz
has needed to develop its ICT environment to respond to
the current trends. The core of their business is datacentres that support and provide the necessary input for all
activities at Seznam.cz. The company had been utilizing
housing services from commercial providers of data centres in the Czech Republic until 2013, when they took the
decision to establish their own datacentre thanks to an
increase in their activities. This datacentre would primarily support the Seznam.cz services, enabling further development of the company in the future.
The full-scale turnkey solution of the new Tier III category data centre with a total area of 2.500 m2 and an output of 1 MW IT was won by ALTRON, which is one of the
leading Czech and international suppliers of data centre
infrastructure and IT services. Comprehensive services
are provided to the customers, connected with the implementation of the data centre on a greenfield project
from the study, investor representation, architectural
rendering and complete implementation of individual
construction and technological phases, for example the
deployment of innovative cooling and power supply solutions. Last but not least, the services are provided within the project in conjunction with the datacentre operations such as monitoring.
The Customer
Starting position
Seznam.cz has been operating on the Internet portals market since 1996, maintaining its prominent position through
constant expansion of its services and innovations for the
end-users. The whole business of Seznam.cz is based on
digital and on-line services and products. For example, Seznam.cz prides itself on their home page, with the average
number of daily visitors amounting to nearly 2.8 million
and the full number of pages displayed per month exceeding one billion. Similar high figures are also recorded by
other Seznam.cz projects as well, for instance Seznam
Email or the catalogue Firmy.cz (Firms.cz).
Increasing demands for data and the development of multimedia have brought requirements for high performance
servers and data centres. Two data centres in the form of
housing provided reliable operations from commercial providers.
The decision to establish their own data centre was taken
in 2012 to provide savings on operating costs and to have
the possibility to influence the technological environment
for services provided to end users in the future, and to enhance the security of the operation. Seznam.cz launched a
selection procedure for a general supplier, which was won
by the ALTRON Company, which won thanks to the complexity of their offer, the price and their previous experience in building datacentres. Within the study, a location
at Horní Počernice (the eastern part Prague) was chosen in
2012 to commence the implementation phase. The construction itself and mounting the technology was subsequently finished in 9 months.
The annual revenues of Seznam.cz amount to more than
CZK 3 billion. The company has about 1.000 employees. In
order to enable the company to develop its activities, the
company needs a fully functional ICT based on reliable and
safe data centres, which provide the necessary power to
operate all projects and portals at Seznam.cz.
ALTRON Solutions and Services
Benefits and Advantages
ALTRON offered comprehensive solutions for implementing
a new turnkey datacentre for Seznam.cz. The implementation itself was preceded by a lot of preparatory work connected with the proposal of sites, the preparation of studies, architectural rendering and the preparation of project
documentation with integrated and full-scale engineering
of the whole structure in the form of professional services.
This phase was completely provided by ALTRON as the investor‘s representative, followed by supplying the complete
data centre technology and subsequent IT services which
are used primarily to ensure smooth and safe operations.
The main benefit for the customer stems from the implementation of their own data centre, which brings independence from commercial housing providers, high security
and failure-free operation, while simultaneously opening
space for developing end-user services in the future.
Through the full-scale datacentre implementation by
ALTRON, it has adapted the datacentre structure to the
technology and not the other way around, as is so often
the case in reconstructing or fitting out datacentres into existing structures. It brought many advantages such as moving more simply and separated corridors with high security.
But thanks to the conception of optimal power supply and
cooling above all, the total energy costs decreased by 40 %
on average. Expected average PUE is planned around 1.2.
The datacentre is also tailor-made for future expansion
without unnecessary additional investments, which encourages the optimum development for the future. Thanks to
its experience with the establishment of more than 200
datacentres and servers, Altron ensured complete customer
representation throughout the construction process, allowing Seznam.cz to concentrate on its core business without
unnecessary worries connected with project implementation.
The Tier III category datacentre with an availability of more
than 99.982 % has at its disposal a technology area of
600m2 with an output of 1 MW IT. It was structurally adapted to technologies so that dual flooring or complex cooling ducts could be completely omitted. Altron’s Modular
Multifeet Architecture was deployed during the implementation phase, using low-loss transformers. Connected with
this, the PUE parameter (Power Usage Effectivity) achieved
an operating value of less than 1.2 within this project. The
solution also involves a unique implementation of indirect
cooling with the help of outside air, thanks to which the
standard compressor system can remain idle for 95 % of
the time. This forms an integral part and supports 100 % of
the datacentre output capacity.
Besides the technological units, 24x7 distant monitoring
services provided by the ALTRON monitoring centre are included in the arrangement.
“ICT technologies and datacentres are the foundation of
our business that specializes in providing high-quality services for Internet visitors and users since 1996. Our decision to establish our own datacentre has brought us longterm cooperation with ALTRON. The whole construction
and launching of our data centre has been provided by
ALTRON as a general supplier. Thanks to their professional
attitude, open business model and use of innovative technologies, our expectations have been fully met by
ALTRON,” said Vlastimil Pečínka, Technical Director at Seznam.cz.
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