IT Infrastructure · Data Centre
GoAgile designs, builds and commissions server rooms and data centres for Saudi and GCC organisations: power, cooling, racks, cabling, fire protection, security and monitoring, delivered as one project to a defined availability target.
What it is
Data centre design and implementation is the planning and building of the physical home for your IT: the room or building, electrical supply and backup power, cooling, racks, cabling, fire protection, physical security and monitoring, all sized for the availability you need and the growth you expect. Done well, the facility keeps running through power cuts, cooling faults and hardware failures, and grows without a rebuild.
The most expensive mistakes happen before anything is bought: a location with weak power, cooling sized for today's load only, or a build to a tier the business does not need. We start with the question that drives every other decision, how much downtime the business can tolerate, and design the electrical and cooling architecture to match.
We deliver three kinds of project: new on-premises server rooms, full data centre builds, and refurbishment or migration of an ageing facility while it stays live. The team that designs the facility also installs the cabling, commissions the systems and can run it afterwards, which is why SaudiBio handed us its on-premises infrastructure, from data centre design and implementation through to backup, disaster recovery and platform operations.
Key facts
What we design and build
Seven workstreams, one programme, one point of accountability.
We establish what an hour of downtime costs, set the availability target, survey the site and design the facility to hit that target without over-building. The design is costed before you commit.
What you get: A design you can approve, budget and tender with confidence.
Clean power from the utility connection to every rack, with backup that carries the load until the generator takes over, and monitoring that shows load before it becomes a problem.
What you get: Continuous power with the redundancy you have paid for and tested.
Cooling is the biggest running cost in a data centre and the most common cause of hot spots. We design airflow, containment and capacity together, to ASHRAE TC 9.9 inlet-temperature guidance.
What you get: Stable temperatures at the lowest sustainable energy cost.
Early detection, clean-agent suppression, controlled access and surveillance, designed to Saudi fire and building requirements and integrated with your monitoring.
What you get: A room that detects problems early and keeps unauthorised people out.
Racks, containment and cabling are installed as a system, so airflow is protected and every cable can be traced years later by someone who did not install it.
What you get: Tidy, documented and ready for the next change.
Before go-live, every system is tested on its own and together, including failure scenarios witnessed by your team. Migrations are staged, with rollback plans and dual-running where needed.
What you get: A facility that has been proven to work, and a team that knows how.
A data centre is a living system. We can operate it through our managed IT and NOC services, schedule preventive maintenance, review capacity every year and compare colocation and cloud against expansion.
What you get: A facility that stays inside its design limits as the business grows.
How we work
A data centre is built once and judged for a decade. The early steps decide most of the outcome.
Start with a conversationWe agree the workloads, the cost of downtime, the availability target, the growth plan and the budget envelope.
A site survey covers structure, power supply, cooling options, access and risk, and compares candidate locations if you have more than one.
Concept and detailed design: power and cooling architecture, rack plan, drawings, specifications and bill of quantities.
We prepare drawings and coordinate landlord, utility and Civil Defense approvals with you.
Supply and installation of containment, power, cooling, cabling, fire protection and security, in the right order.
Component tests, integrated systems tests, failover tests and load-bank tests, witnessed by your team.
As-built drawings, operations manuals, training and the first maintenance cycle.
Design reference
The Uptime Institute tier classification is the common language for data centre resilience. This is what each tier means in practice.
| Tier | Design concept | Commonly cited availability | Downtime per year | Typical fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier I | Basic capacity, single path, no redundancy | 99.671% | About 28.8 hours | Small offices and non-critical systems that tolerate planned downtime |
| Tier II | Redundant capacity components (N+1), single path | 99.741% | About 22 hours | Growing businesses, development and test environments |
| Tier III | Concurrently maintainable: multiple paths, maintenance without shutdown | 99.982% | About 1.6 hours | Banks, hospitals, government and any 24/7 business |
| Tier IV | Fault tolerant: independent, simultaneously active paths | 99.995% | About 26 minutes | Mission-critical national and financial infrastructure |
Figures are those commonly cited for the Uptime Institute tier classification and describe design intent. Actual availability depends on operations. GoAgile designs to these concepts; formal tier certification is a separate assessment by the Uptime Institute.
| Decision | Typical options | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Availability target | N, N+1, 2N, 2N+1 power and cooling | Capital cost, floor space and how maintenance is done |
| Rack power density | About 4 to 8 kW per rack for enterprise IT; 10 kW and above for dense or GPU racks | Cooling method, power distribution and floor loading |
| Cooling approach | Raised floor with containment, in-row cooling, rear-door heat exchangers | Energy cost, resilience and how racks are laid out |
| Inlet temperature | ASHRAE recommended range of 18 to 27 °C | Energy use and equipment reliability |
| Fire protection | Clean-agent gas, water mist or pre-action sprinklers, with early detection | Civil Defense approval, equipment safety and recovery time |
| Build, colocate or cloud | Own facility, in-Kingdom colocation, cloud regions | Cost over ten years, control and regulatory fit |
Technology
We choose power, cooling, compute, storage and network platforms for the job and the budget, not from one brand's catalogue.
Power & cooling
Compute, storage & virtualisation
Network & security
Logos are trademarks of their respective owners and are shown to indicate platforms we work with.
Built for Saudi Arabia and the GCC
Heat, dust, regulation and utility approvals shape every design decision in the Kingdom. We plan for them from the first drawing.
Cooling is sized for Saudi summer ambient temperatures, with filtration and positive-pressure design where dust is a risk.
Where the facility sits and what it holds is shaped by the CST Cloud Computing Regulatory Framework, NCA controls and PDPL, including which data must stay in the Kingdom.
Fire protection, egress and materials are designed to the Saudi Building Code and prepared for Civil Defense approval.
We coordinate power requirements with the Saudi Electricity Company and your landlord early, because grid connection often sets the programme.
In-Kingdom colocation and cloud regions are compared with building your own, with the cost and compliance trade-offs set out honestly.
Engineers in Riyadh, supply chains planned around regional lead times, and installation windows that respect live operations.
Where we deliver
Riyadh · Jeddah · Dammam & Al Khobar · Madinah · the Eastern Province · Dubai & the UAE · Qatar · Kuwait · Bahrain · Oman
Clients
A selection of the institutions and businesses we deliver for across Saudi Arabia.
SaudiBio moved to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with GoAgile, and handed its on-premises infrastructure to the same team.
Certified management systems
ISO 9001
ISO 14001
ISO 45001
ISO 27001
Dun & BradstreetWhy GoAgile
A data centre is a decade-long commitment. These are the reasons clients choose a single accountable team.
Design, supply, installation, commissioning and handover under one contract, with one team answerable for the result.
We choose equipment to meet your availability target and budget, not to move a particular brand.
Failover and load tests before go-live, witnessed by your team, with results recorded.
As-built drawings, cable records and operations manuals that a new engineer can use on day one.
Managed IT and 24/7 NOC services mean the people who built it can operate it, and designs are built to be operated.
Riyadh-based engineers with experience of Saudi approvals, supply lead times and operating conditions.
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Plan a data centre projectQuestions answered
Tell us about the workloads, the site and the downtime you can tolerate. We will respond with a design approach and a realistic programme.
One team from first survey to a tested, documented facility, with the option to run it afterwards.