The Choice of a Data Center location is largely influenced by emotional need for security, Business Sense and Technical Prudence.
As one of the largest data center provider of India, our team is constantly juggling between these factors.
It is important to understand the emotional needs of user community. Even in this age of borderless commerce and cloud based virtual infrastructure; there is still a premium for secure and accessible data center facilities. Users continue to feel safer if their servers are close to the work location. They are willing to pay a premium for accessible and secure locations. In addition to emotional needs, there may be regulatory and political factors for locality of the data. The recent drive by government of India to fund State Data Centers(SDC) in many of the Indian states under the National e-Governance Program is a visible example to fulfill these needs.
In my Experience, It was easy to convince the datacenter users/customers to move-in the computing assets after a brief tour of the data center. I am assuming that this experience gives them a sense of security and accessibility to trust their assets to the datacenter providers.
It makes perfect business sense to evaluate initial investments, Input costs and consumption patterns before deciding the location of the data center.
The real estate cost, construction viability, un-interrupted availability and consistent price for electrical power play a vital role in choosing the location of the data center. Some Projects are being conceived in locations close to power sources such as hydro-electric, thermal, and other power plants to reduce the power distribution losses leading to lower power tariffs and increase in viability/profitability.
An important factor for Internet Data Centers is the proximity to Internet Exchanges (IX). Multiple access paths, reduced latency and high bandwidth internet connections allow building of reliable high performance VPN based overly networks for the datacenter users.
The climate of the location plays a crucial role in determining the HVAC needs and drives the associated costs, Dry and moderately cooler locations have reduced HVAC costs.
In addition to HVAC, virtualized multi-tenanted design of compute, storage and network infrastructure determine the level of commitment to meet the Green IT objectives.
Green IT may not only be statement of corporate social responsibility but also allows to leverage local government incentives tied to meeting the Green/Environmental objectives.
Picking The Right Spot for a Data Center helps in successfully building a Secure, Powerful, Well Connected, Cool and Green data center of the future.
http://www.sifycorp.com/scripts/datacenterservices.asp (our team)
As one of the largest data center provider of India, our team is constantly juggling between these factors.
It is important to understand the emotional needs of user community. Even in this age of borderless commerce and cloud based virtual infrastructure; there is still a premium for secure and accessible data center facilities. Users continue to feel safer if their servers are close to the work location. They are willing to pay a premium for accessible and secure locations. In addition to emotional needs, there may be regulatory and political factors for locality of the data. The recent drive by government of India to fund State Data Centers(SDC) in many of the Indian states under the National e-Governance Program is a visible example to fulfill these needs.
In my Experience, It was easy to convince the datacenter users/customers to move-in the computing assets after a brief tour of the data center. I am assuming that this experience gives them a sense of security and accessibility to trust their assets to the datacenter providers.
It makes perfect business sense to evaluate initial investments, Input costs and consumption patterns before deciding the location of the data center.
The real estate cost, construction viability, un-interrupted availability and consistent price for electrical power play a vital role in choosing the location of the data center. Some Projects are being conceived in locations close to power sources such as hydro-electric, thermal, and other power plants to reduce the power distribution losses leading to lower power tariffs and increase in viability/profitability.
An important factor for Internet Data Centers is the proximity to Internet Exchanges (IX). Multiple access paths, reduced latency and high bandwidth internet connections allow building of reliable high performance VPN based overly networks for the datacenter users.
The climate of the location plays a crucial role in determining the HVAC needs and drives the associated costs, Dry and moderately cooler locations have reduced HVAC costs.
In addition to HVAC, virtualized multi-tenanted design of compute, storage and network infrastructure determine the level of commitment to meet the Green IT objectives.
Green IT may not only be statement of corporate social responsibility but also allows to leverage local government incentives tied to meeting the Green/Environmental objectives.
Picking The Right Spot for a Data Center helps in successfully building a Secure, Powerful, Well Connected, Cool and Green data center of the future.
http://www.sifycorp.com/scripts/datacenterservices.asp (our team)
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