Can a Colocation Provider take a Modular Data Center Approach?

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Can a Colocation Provider take a Modular Data
Center Approach?
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Can a Colocation Provider take a Modular Data
Center Approach?

• Colocation providers try to balance a lot of
  variables to arrive at the best end result when
  building data centers
• Companies want an innovative design at the lowest
  cost and quickest building schedule without
  sacrificing desired capabilities
• To address capital and speed of deployment
  issues, colocation providers turn to data hall
  modularity
• This deployment technique refers to building data
  halls in chunks

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Can a Colocation Provider take a Modular Data
Center Approach?

• Colocation providers dont need to worry on
  obsolete technologies. No provider want to make
  huge investments only to find outdated
  innovations
• Cost, time and technology obsolescence remain
  reasons colocation providers choose modular
  approaches to new data centers

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Can a Colocation Provider take a Modular Data
Center Approach?

• Other benefits exist as well
• Scalability modular approaches offer
  standardized designs
• Flexibility technology can be updated by simply
  replacing modules
• Agility modular solution providers mobility
• Greater densities modular solution densities
  are more efficient compared to tradition data
  centers
• Lower PUEs modules are pre-engineered and
  standardized, PUEs range between 1.1 and 1.4. A
  good metric for green efficiency
• Data center infrastructure management (DCIM)
  DCIM software provides the tools for colocation
  providers to manage the components and
  engineering integrated within the module

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Can a Colocation Provider take a Modular Data
Center Approach?

• Other benefits exist as well
• Maintenance because modular solutions
  standardize components, maintenance programs can
  be standardized as well. Standardization helps
  colocation providers enhance efficiencies
• By taking modular approach to data center halls,
  providers can better match IT infrastructure to
  customer requirements
• They can right-size infrastructure as needs grow
  and change over time

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Can a Colocation Provider take a Modular Data
Center Approach?

• Modular solutions provide capacity quickly and
  help cut expensive resource costs
• CyrusOne provides more than 1,000,000 square feet
  of colocated floor space in top tier data centers
  across nation
• CyrusOne serves enterprise clients in many
  industries, including energy oil and gas,
  medical, technology, finance and consumer goods
  and services

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About the author

• Nicole Aguillard is marketing director for
  CyrusOne, a global enterprise colocation provider
  operating 24 highly secure data centers across
  the United States, London and Singapore. Learn
  more about Colocation Providers by visiting
  http//www.cyrusone.com/.