TALKING POINT
Prefabrication – The Winning
Formula for Edge Data Centres
Speed to data, that’s what it’s all about, says Mark O’Sullivan,
regional sales director at Flexenclosure.
I
n a wo rld where data is
be ing in crea s in gly ge ne rate d
and dema nded pl a net - wid e
rather tha n j us t in t h e T ie r
1 c ities , the winn er s in t h e
colocation a nd cl o ud s e r v ic e s
race wi ll be the compa nie s t h at
c an d e l iver data the fa s te s t to
e nd u sers worl dwide.
But here’s the issue… in
order to meet the demands of
enterprises outsourcing to the
cloud, or indeed end consumers
wanting a faster more seamless
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experience when using social
media or content streaming
services, most of the existing
hyperscale data centres are too
far away from users in Tier 2 or 3
cities and certainly too far from
emerging economies, with the
result that latency increases and
user experience suffers.
The solution of course is to
build new data centres physically
closer to these users and with
large enterprises having facilities
distributed geographically,
colocation and cloud providers
need to be thinking seriously
about establishing facilities
closer to the edge, with secure
access to multiple networks.
In these regional cities or
developing markets though,
building hyperscale facilities is
costly, time consuming and they’d
be way oversized for the local
market’s requirements. So this is
where more flexible prefabricated
facilities – such as Flexenclosure’s
eCentre – come in to their own.