Valet Parking the Data Center Container: Part II

| CTO Edge (Nov 9 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

1. In a recent post I postulated that a midsize company’s CTO had taken the plunge and committed to boldly move forward with a containerized data center strategy. Everything seemed to be going smoothly, and the new “data-center-in-a-box” arrived in only six weeks after it was ordered by our intrepid hero. The problems began when it came time “to just plug it in," since it was ordered complete with 1,000 new servers all pre-installed and presumably ready go. Our hypothetical CTO had indeed skipped all the tedious details (such as power and cooling requirements) and those usual endless meetings with architect and engineer construction committees normally associated with a new data center. Thus, he saved the 18 to 24 months of waiting for his new data center to be built, or so he thought. (Read Full Article)

   Bookmark or Share this article

Login to comment.

Related Articles