Intelligent CIO Europe Issue13 | Page 55

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// FEATURE: DATA MANAGEMENT Expert reveals why data centre design and build is evolving exponentially Jos Baart, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Flexenclosure, talks to Intelligent CIO Europe to inform enterprises about how the data landscape is evolving and assures them that the future of reliable data centre construction is secure. W ith new data centre capacity needed at an ever- accelerating rate, rushing the delivery of a new facility significantly increases risk. Find out how off-site construction, integration and testing prior to final on site commissioning can deliver a fully customised data centre, on budget, with greatly reduced risk and in a fraction of the time required for a traditionally constructed facility. During the past decade, the data centre market has grown significantly. The pace of that growth has varied in different parts of the world – faster in the developed nations (with the establishment of hyperscale enterprise and colocation data centres) than in emerging economies – but there is no doubt that it is accelerating everywhere. This, of course, is not surprising. Businesses have become extremely data dependant. They need data for myriad activities, including explaining the behaviour of their customers, predicting market trajectories, securing the processes for revenue management, ensuring compliance and detecting irregularities and fraud. Our national economies www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 55