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"Companies spend a lot of time thinking about power supply in and server power consumption, but less time thinking about the way the power is used, monitored and distributed within the data center itself. The infrastructure is like the ignorosphere of data center design. At Racktivity, we're trying to build some intelligence into that layer. See my recent blog post: The green, the bad and the ugly for my on this: http://blog.racktivity.com/green-bad-ugly."

"Red Vista have found that companies are now keen to look at outsourcing and hosting where they can secure a fixed contract for a period of time which will guarantee power, cooling and space requirements.

As this article rightly suggests, this will ultimately result in issues around contractual obligations for resources.

We are seeing a keen interest in our bespoke modular built data centres, which allow the customer to install a portable and scalable data centre solution.

http://www.redvista.co.uk/services/modular-data-centre/"