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MODULAR DATA CENTRES
Winning with
prefabrication
By Mark O’Sullivan, Regional
Sales Director, Flexenclosure
www.flexenclosure.com
The winning formula for edge data
centres is a prefabricated
modular approach
Speed to data – that’s what it’s all about. In a world where
data is being increasingly generated and demanded planet-
wide rather than just in the Tier 1 cities, the winners in the
colocation and cloud services race will be the companies
that can deliver data the fastest to end users worldwide.
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 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. The result is 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
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