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Introductions
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The Multi Tenant Data Center – What is It?
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What is Driving Adoption (i.e. Value
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• Most Simply, An Assembly of Standalone Data Centers/Server Rooms/Computer Rooms/DR Sites (and associated staff) into a Single-Use Specialized Facility
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Purpose-built as a modular data center
Hardened concrete shell / heavy duty roof (i.e. Natural Disaster Proof)
Large areas of raised floor
Floor loads and ceiling heights for optimal latest generation server room design
Multiple redundant, underground utility feeds
Diverse fiber entrances
Second source of water to municipal system
Capacity for mass diesel fuel storage
Convenient location for staff and/or DR access
Sensible security characteristics
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#2 – A master plan for the intelligent provisioning of
technical space, workstation areas, power & HVAC
Fully-demised and autonomous technical areas
Dedicated IT workstations
and/or NOC areas adjacent to data center
Dedicated UPS System Vaults Dedicated Storage/Staging Areas
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#3 – A Large-Scale, Flexible & Modular Plant
Enables low-fixed cost growth through all stages of firm life cycle and all future technology evolution; Enables complete autonomy for those who value it.
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#4 – Experienced On-Site Technicians and
Security Personnel
– Experience in and Enterprise Data Center Environment and a Service Environment
– Suite of services includes support of basic power, cooling and connectivity (“ping, power and pipe”) and “remote helping hand” services on an a la carte basis (i.e.
fiber/power drops, rack and stack, inventory management, power mapping, data connectivity management, tape rotation, etc…)
– For larger occupants – do it all yourself (including
management of dedicated critical facility infrastructure, if desired), rely on staff for surge capacity as desired.
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#4 – Communications Capacity and Diversity
U U D D D D D CTC D D D D U D D Others…* U D D D D D D VERIZON
* ATT, Sprint, XO, Abovenet, GXing, Sunesys, Qwest, Internap available in proximity sufficient to service customers if demand dictates. U D D D D D D RCN NETWORKREACH SERVICES D D D D D D D LEVEL3 TRANS ATLANTIC NATIONAL METRO AREA INTERNET DARK FIBER WAVE LENGTH PRIVATE LINE
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#5 – Vendor Rich, Vendor Neutral Environment for
IT Services
Fiber Occupant Premises
IT Equipment/Services “Vendor Rich, Vendor Neutral”
Enhanced Infrastructure
Services
Diverse Carrier Access
Direct Third Party Service Contracts
With No Prohibitions or Exclusivities (Favored/Bulk Pricing Available from
Select Vendors) HARDWARE LEASING SERVICES SERVERMONITORING/ IP MONITORING / APPLICATIONSERVICES / OTHERMANAGEDSVCS… MIGRATION/ SPACE & LOAD PLANNING
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#6 – A Product Suite That Provides Ultimate
Flexibility for Growth in Space (and Power)
Secure Cages (8’x16’) Fully-Demised Suite
• Key-card secured
• Holds up to 6 cabinets • Pay for power/fiber
as needed
• Workstations can be set up within cages as necessary
• 500 to 20,000+ sf
• Dedicated critical plant, as desired (incl. dedicated Gens, UPS, PDUs, CRACs, etc…) • Metered power w/o markup • Supporting office areas as • Lock secured
• Pay for power/fiber as needed
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Although it didn’t happen on “internet time”,
a mass migration out of legacy,
office-building-contained data centers is underway
and accelerating. Why?
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The Increasing Importance of Electronic Data
Processing and Storage to the Health of an
Organization:
– Electronic tools moving beyond desktop (POS, field and
bedside applications, digital imaging and storage, digital record management…)
– Centralization of content creates hyper-reliance on core data bases, network uptime, and key asset security (electronic and physical)
– Regulatory attention (HIPAA, etc…)
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The obvious corollary: Disaster Recovery
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Legacy sites built as late as the late-90s, often lack critical infrastructure needed to support high-density UPS power and cooling (room & floor-load for
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• The insufficiency of legacy data centers to support the power, cooling and connectivity uptime needs of modern IT equipment
– Power density – 5kW+ per rack with blade deployments
• Fuel storage (regulatory issue) and prioritized fuel delivery / priority on generators • Requires floor loads to support large battery systems
• Dual feeds and reliable grids
– Cooling density – requires tonnages per sf of 3x or more mid-90s designs
• Raised floor and unobstructed plenum
• Redundancy in cooling is just as important as electrical
– Ceiling Heights / Floor loads
• The inability of multi-use facility managers to provide the TLC that data centers require
– Specialized electrical, mechanical and networking skill sets
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• Precipitous decline in connectivity costs has rendered off-site data processing and storage financially viable (and has enabled geographic diversification of key IT assets). $0 $200 $400 $600 $800 $1,000 $1,200 $1,400 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 T-1 Pricing
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“Build” costs for Tier 4 data centers (at ~100 watts psf) range from $800 sq/ft (for 150,000 sq/ft) to in excess of $1,500 sq/ft of raised floor (for 10,000 sq/ft)
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Scale effects render the construction of data centers with less than 40,000 sf of
Security Guards
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On-Site Security Captain
(Career in Law Enforcement)
Generally 1
(Limits work scope due to skill gaps & safety issues w/ energized equipment)
At Least 2 Technicians On Site 24/7 $526,500 $52.65 psf $918,000 $7.74 psf Loaded Annual Cost/
Cost PSF of Raised Floor
$526,500 $77,375
Annual Cost to 10k sf User Mid-Level Technicians High-Level Technicians
(10+ yrs. Experience)
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On-Site VP, Ops
(CPE, 15 yrs. Experience)
10,000 sf Standalone Multi Tenant
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#6: U
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Uncertain in technical facilities purchasing mimics that of technology purchasing
Sentinel enables flexibility of phased growth relative to standalone construction, converting fixed costs to variable costs and allowing the avoidance of up front expenditure for uncertain future capacity needs
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