Goldman Sachs gains the Green Data Center Capability of the elite from IO, Data Center Capacity deployed annually
What is fundamentally wrong with data centers of the past is it was an exercise in consensus decision making to gain enough votes of confidence to move forward with a major capital investment. The Real Estate and IT group would go around to all the different business units and other parts of the company to collect the requirements, and alternatives would be presented. Here is how much it will cost to meet the needs of the business for the next 15 years. This method was fine when Data Centers were a fraction of the IT costs. Now with the web and surge of data, it is reasonable for the top financials to have 50k - 100k of servers. Some of these servers need to meet regulatory requirements from dozens of gov't agencies. Some of these servers have minimal regulatory issues and can be spread around in low cost data centers ...
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