Pay as you grow – modular data centres
Scalable Modular Data Centre:
For mid-size clients, up to 15-25% less total cost of ownership
Enterprise Modular Data Centre:
For enterprise clients,defer up to 40-50% of capital and operating costs
Portable Modular Data Centre:
For remote capacity - fully functional data centre in shipping container
As demand for IT services increases, so does the need for flexible data centre design. Using analytics-based services, we can use mathematical modeling to better project future IT and data centre capacity demands to better plan your data centre design. Modular data centre designs can offer significant benefits as your business grows and adapts to change. A modular approach can let you pay as you grow, defer costs by up to 50 percent and swiftly implement the latest technology. Data Centre Design Lifecycle Cost Analytics can help improve data centre investment governance by providing vendor and technology tradeoffs and can help reduce total costs by up to 30 percent.
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Getting started
In our study, 60 percent of CEOs said they are already experiencing high levels of complexity in their operating environments and market segments, yet less than half of them felt prepared for the increasing complexity ahead. Modular data centres; providing operational dexterity for an increasingly complex world. Read the white paper. (352KB)
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Evaluating solutions
IBM’s approach to modular data centre design is not about containerisation but about using smaller increments of standardised components, making it possible to add data centre capacity when needed and thus more closely align IT with business requirements. Best practice strategies for designing and deploying modular data centres. Read the white paper. (446KB)
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See what others have done
IBM helped build the largest data centre in India at Tulip Telecom one of the greenest / energy efficient data centres in the world. See how Tulip Telecom is meeting increased capacity (00:06:04)
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