IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - enterprise modular data centre

Business is growing fast and IT computing demand is growing at the same time. Data centres as the engine of that growth need to keep up with the ability to change. To stay competitive, your organisation needs a more innovative approach to data centre design, one that can help you to cost-effectively build, operate and maintain an enterprise data centre in today's complex IT environment. Unlike traditional data centre designs that require you to invest in physical infrastructure upfront while capacity sits idle for extended periods of time, IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services-enterprise modular data centre uses a standardised, efficient design that provides flexible capacity growth and high data availability and energy efficiency-to align your capital and operational spend to IT requirements by paying only for what you need-when you need it.

Uses a modular design to allow you to incrementally increase both power capacity and floor space as needed-up to 12 times growth

Aligns your capital and operational spend to IT requirements by paying only for what you need-when you need it

Helps ease complexity while reducing risk through more available and predictable operations

Uses an open architecture physical infrastructure so you can easily and quickly adopt leading-edge technology

Delivering an efficient data centre solution that can grow as you grow

Businesses are growing and the data centre as the engine of that growth is facing increasing pressures. With server shipments growing by 6 times this decade and storage growing by 69 times, the ability of the data centre to adapt to the faster pace of growth is critical. Designing and building a data centre using traditional design methods needs to change. The ability to accurately forecast potential growth requirements over long periods of time-up to 20 to 30 years of a useful life when technology is changing every 2 to 3 years-is a difficult task. Traditional data centre design forces you to invest in physical infrastructure upfront even if capacity sits idle for many months or years, making it difficult to cost-effectively build, operate and maintain an enterprise data centre in today's complex IT environment. Today, data centres are required to support higher densities beyond their original design. As a result, the approach to data centre design must change to adapt to changing IT and business needs, while continuing to drive energy efficiency and optimise capital and operational costs.

IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services-enterprise modular data centre uses a design starting with modules as small as 5,000-square-foot of IT production raised floor within a traditional data centre-each with its own dedicated set of power and cooling equipment growing in modules up to 20,000 square feet or greater of raised floor space. Using a standardised design approach, the enterprise modular data centre uses a modular design to allow you to incrementally increase both power capacity and floor space as needed. Because you pay for only what you need, when you need it, you are able to more closely align your capital and operational spend with IT requirements. Plus, you gain more available and predictable operations, helping to ease complexity and reduce risk.