Dateline : November 11, 2008

Looking at the 'new' data center paradigm

A new white paper on mission-critical facilities from a top business-continuity-planning and disaster-recovery expert at Tishman Technologies Corporation offers a look into "data centers of the future," stating that their deployment will be driven not by capacity needs and geographic site selection alone, but by the total cost of ownership, the efficient utilization of power, and the mitigation of heat.

Events in recent years, such as hurricanes, cascading blackouts, wildfires, terrorist events, floods and seaport outages, have challenged the conventional wisdom of sitting data centers solely in urban or near-urban environments, and support new and emergent data points on potential system interruption and the high total cost of ownership in those regions, Mr. Bowman alleges.

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