What do you do when you see a space man?  Park the car man!  I've always loved that joke!   But seriously, what relevance has it got to colocation data centre infrastructure?  

The fact is that the processing capacity of servers is rapidly increasing.  Ten processors used to do the job that one can now do.  Moor's law states computer processing power doubles every two years.  Yet we also know that the speed at which we create data is growing at an astonishing rate and the situation is only set to escalate. 

Datacentres are right to respond to anticipated future demand.  However, what also needs to be considered is the equally rapid reduction in IT power consumption.  With real-estate prices at a premium and set to continue to rise, plus the high costs of power consumption and maintenance of an oversized legacy UPS, being wise to maximise the use of existing infrastructures and constantly right-sizing appropriate to the load, can minimise running costs and maximise returns for the colocation datacentre.

Colocation datacentres are generally assessed by customers on their PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness), level of resilience and the cost of space.  One option to optimise all three elements, is to look at deploying a decentralised infrastructure.  We are currently seeing around half of the colocation datacentres we work with moving in this direction.

What do you do when you see a space man?  Park the car man!  I've always loved that joke!   But seriously, what relevance has it got to colocation data centre infrastructure?  

The fact is that the processing capacity of servers is rapidly increasing.  Ten processors used to do the job that one can now do.  Moor's law states computer processing power doubles every two years.  Yet we also know that the speed at which we create data is growing at an astonishing rate and the situation is only set to escalate. 

Datacentres are right to respond to anticipated future demand.  However, what also needs to be considered is the equally rapid reduction in IT power consumption.  With real-estate prices at a premium and set to continue to rise, plus the high costs of power consumption and maintenance of an oversized legacy UPS, being wise to maximise the use of existing infrastructures and constantly right-sizing appropriate to the load, can minimise running costs and maximise returns for the colocation datacentre.

Colocation datacentres are generally assessed by customers on their PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness), level of resilience and the cost of space.  One option to optimise all three elements, is to look at deploying a decentralised infrastructure.  We are currently seeing around half of the colocation datacentres we work with moving in this direction.

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