1. ‘Container Centers’ As a Facility Niche

    Data Center Knowledge (Oct 14 2009) Construction , Container

    1. ‘Container Centers’ As a Facility Niche Are ”container centers” a real estate niche with a future? As server-filled shipping containers gain traction, several providers of wholesale data center and colocation space have begun housing data center containers for customers. A Virginia company is going one step further and developing dedicated facilities for containers. Dock IT of Reston is adopting a multi-tenant approach to the container-focused design implemented by Microsoft in its new Chicago data center, albeit on a smaller scale. Just as data centers are designed around the requirements of IT racks filled with servers, Dock IT’s “docking stations” are built to capture the economic benefits of container-based computing. (Read Full Article)

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