Discovery & Capacity Planning
Workload inventory, growth forecast, rack density, availability target, compliance needs, budget, location constraints, and phased capacity roadmap.
Vendor-neutral data center consulting
Design today’s data center for tomorrow’s workload.
From business requirements to commissioned infrastructure, Zetlan architects resilient, secure, efficient data centers and server rooms with clear specifications that vendors can price and deliver.
01Single coordinated design
N+1 / 2NResiliency options
A/BDiverse power & network paths
100%Documented handover
Design disciplines
Every system coordinated before construction begins.
Our architecture connects facilities engineering with IT requirements, reducing change orders, compatibility problems, stranded capacity, and operational risk.
Room & Rack Architecture
White-space and gray-space planning, rack elevations, service clearances, secure zoning, raised-floor decisions, pathways, loading, and expansion strategy.
Electrical & Backup Power
Utility assessment, transformer and switchgear coordination, UPS topology, generators, ATS, PDUs, earthing, selective protection, and A/B power paths.
Cooling & Airflow
Heat-load modeling, hot/cold aisle containment, precision cooling, humidity, redundancy, CFD coordination, and liquid-cooling readiness for dense AI workloads.
Network Architecture
Carrier entry, meet-me room, core and edge routing, leaf-spine or three-tier fabrics, out-of-band management, structured cabling, and diverse paths.
Physical & Cyber Security
Access control, CCTV, mantraps, rack security, segmentation, firewalls, privileged access, logging, zero-trust principles, and compliance controls.
Fire Detection & Suppression
Early smoke detection, alarm zoning, clean-agent or suitable suppression design, emergency power-off coordination, evacuation, and local code alignment.
DCIM, BMS & Monitoring
Environmental sensors, power metering, asset and capacity tracking, BMS/DCIM integration, alerting, dashboards, trend analysis, and escalation workflows.
Testing & Commissioning
Factory and site acceptance, integrated systems testing, failover scenarios, thermal and load tests, snag closure, as-built drawings, SOPs, and training.
Current market direction · 2026
Architecture is moving toward higher density and open, scalable systems.
AI and accelerated computing are increasing rack power and thermal demands. Modern designs increasingly combine air and liquid cooling, modular power, software-defined operations, deeper telemetry, and leaf-spine network fabrics.
View an AI-ready reference designAI-ready density
Plan electrical and thermal envelopes around future GPU and accelerator refresh cycles.
Hybrid cooling
Evaluate rear-door heat exchangers, CDUs, direct-to-chip liquid cooling, and facility-water readiness.
Fabric networking
Leaf-spine and EVPN-VXLAN architectures improve east-west scale, automation, and segmentation.
Modular growth
Phased, prefabricated capacity can shorten deployment and align capital with actual demand.
Vendor ecosystem
Clear specifications. Fair vendor comparison.
We define performance and operational requirements first, then help compare technically compliant vendor solutions without locking the architecture to one brand.
CategoryRepresentative vendorsTypical scope
Power & coolingSchneider Electric, Vertiv, Eaton, ABB, SiemensUPS, PDU, switchgear, prefabricated modules, precision and liquid cooling, monitoring
ComputeDell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco UCSRack and blade servers, converged systems, GPU platforms, lifecycle management
NetworkingCisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE ArubaLeaf-spine switching, routing, EVPN-VXLAN, automation, telemetry, management
Storage & backupDell, NetApp, HPE, Pure Storage, IBMSAN, NAS, object storage, data protection, replication, immutable backup
Security & deliveryFortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Check Point, F5Firewalls, segmentation, VPN, application delivery, load balancing, threat prevention
Racks & cablingRittal, Schneider/APC, Vertiv, Panduit, CommScopeRacks, containment, intelligent PDUs, copper/fiber cabling, pathways, labeling
Monitoring & softwareSchneider, Vertiv, Sunbird, Siemens, PRTG, ZabbixDCIM, BMS, infrastructure monitoring, capacity, energy, alerts, reporting
Vendor names are representative market examples, not endorsements. Final selection depends on technical compliance, local support, lifecycle cost, lead time, interoperability, and customer procurement policy.
What vendors receive
Procurement-ready design deliverables.
Documentation gives bidders a common technical baseline and gives your team a defensible evaluation process.
Architecture packageLayouts, single-line diagrams, rack elevations, network topology, cooling concept, and zoning.
Technical specificationsCapacity, performance, redundancy, interfaces, approved standards, testing, warranty, and support.
BOQ & bid scheduleStructured quantities and response sheets that make commercial and technical comparison clearer.
Evaluation matrixCompliance scoring, deviations, lifecycle considerations, support capability, risks, and recommendations.
Start with the right questions
Planning a data center, server room, or modernization project?
We can help define capacity, resiliency, scope, budget assumptions, vendor requirements, and a phased delivery roadmap.