Conroe ISD – Data Center

True North provided turnkey design, specifications, contract administration, and project management for all technology systems related to Conroe ISD’s new Data Center.

True North (A PMY Company) provided turnkey design, specifications, contract administration, and project management for all technology systems related to Conroe Independent School District’s new Data Center.

FACILITY-RELATED SYSTEMS:

• Enclosed Server Cabinets
• Dual 3-Phase Modular Power Busway
• Dual UPS (2N Redundancy)
• A/B Fed Rack Power Distribution
• Dual Natural Gas Generators
• Cooling (N+1 CRAC, Damperable Tiles)
• High-Density Fiber Optic Cabling
• Automatic Gaseous Fire Suppression
• Real-time View and Management of Facility Assets/Athletic Centers

OWNER SYSTEMS:

• Software-Defined Network-Based Architecture
• Four 100GB Spine to Leaf Connections per Rack
• Dual 100GB Data Center Chassis Spine Switches
• Dual 100GB Data Center Leaf Switches per Rack
• Dual 10GB Campus WAN Chassis Switches
• Redundant 160GB Advanced Threat NG Firewall IP Keyboard, Monitor, Mouse SwitcheS

True North developed an “umbilical” connection between the existing and new Data Center to reduce migration risks and provide fallback scenarios. The move to the new Data Center included three major cutover events:

1. Moving service provider dark fiber and phone lines;
2. Moving enterprise compute and storage resources and cutting over to the new firewall; and
3. Moving student and business information systems.

True North was involved in every technology-related component of the project and worked with several contracting parties, including the architect, the general contractor, the mechanical engineer, and District personnel.