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But here’s the issue: in order to meet
the demands of enterprises outsourcing to
the cloud or end consumers wanting a fast-
er more seamless online experience, most
of the existing hyperscale data centers are
too far away from users in Tier 2 or Tier 3
cities and certainly are too far from emerg-
ing economies. As the end result, latency
increases and user experience suffers.
The solution, of course, is to build new
data centers physically closer to these
users, and with large enterprises having
facilities distributed geographically, coloca-
tion and cloud providers need to be think-
ing seriously about establishing facilities
closer to the edge with secure access to
multiple networks. In these regional cities
or developing markets, however, building
hyperscale facilities is costly, time con-
suming, and they’d be way oversized for
the local market’s requirements. This is
where more flexible prefabricated facilities
– such as Flexenclosure’s eCentre – come
in to their own.
Lower cost of entry
The lower up-front cost of prefabricated
data centers versus larger traditionally
built facilities will lower the cost of market
entry, making edge markets more acces-
sible to service providers and making the
cost of the services hosted there more at-
tractive to the ultimate customers.
With prefabricated solutions minimizing
their initial capital outlay at individual sites,
colocation companies also will see an in-
crease in the total number of markets they
can address as they will be able to spread
their investment in modular data centres
across a larger number of sites.
By
Mark
O’Sullivan
Prefabrication at the Edge
S
peed to data: that’s what it’s all about. In a world
where data is being increasingly generated and de-
manded planet-wide rather than just in the Tier 1 cit-
ies, the winners in the colocation and cloud services
race will be the companies that can deliver data the fastest to
end users worldwide.
A formula for
data center
build out