how to estimate data center expansion costs (slideshare)
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How to Estimate Data Center Expansion Costs
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The question is: what should go into the budget?
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Building It and Running It
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The total cost of ownership or TCO is the overall metric to use
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Specifying the New DC Facility
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If you already have one data center in operation, will the additional one simply be more of the same?
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Not necessarily, for the following reasons:
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• Data center technology continues to evolve (a DC over 7 years old is considered to be obsolete by industry observers Gartner, Inc.)
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• Your own business needs may have evolved. Perhaps you started with Tier 1 facilities, but now you need Tier 4 (or even vice versa)
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• Your first DC was over or under-dimensioned. There’s no point in repeating earlier mistakes
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Grabbing a site first because it is affordable, available or both, and then trying to shoehorn new DC facilities into it is the wrong way round
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Numbers for Budgets Don’t Come Out of Hats
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Budgeting typically needs to be zero-based (from scratch),
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starting with business objectives (capacity, security, future needs)
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that are then accurately translated into DC building characteristics and features
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Extra Bits and Pieces
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Two further things can upset an otherwise carefully prepared budget:
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• Items you forgot to include, such as the possible cost of moving systems and data between the current DC and the new facility
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• Factors like LEED project and construction criteria to help make the new facility as ecologically friendly as possible
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Wow, Is It Really Going to Cost That Much?
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Budgets can also be bigger than funds available, whatever the levels under discussion
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If so, other solutions may be preferable
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They may include the use of colocation facilities,
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where all-in monthly fees can be easier to handle as well as being more affordable
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Is modular design the solution for easy expansion of data centers?
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