The data center is not just a building

The data center is not just a building

William Dorti, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the RagingWire data center, raised key questions about the design and operation of the data center.

 

What is the data center? This seems to be a simple question, but the answer is becoming increasingly difficult to understand. In its simplest form, a data center is a physical space or house where computers are stored. But this answer also applies to wardrobes.

So what is the data center?

The data center is not just a building. A Data Center is a safe space that provides efficient and reliable power supply system, cooling and cooling system, and diversified connections between different operators. This is the most basic requirement. In the eyes of first-class data center suppliers, a data center has these capabilities, but it is far from enough to become an excellent data center.

What is an excellent data center?

The best data center should focus on customer experience design, and these facilities must be optimized for their technologies and equipment. However, considering the experience of data center construction staff, and potential customers to assess the needs of the data center.

 

Facilities in Zone A3 of the RagingWire data center

Data center landscape design is often used as an afterthought, rather than a preferred option to guide data center design. A potential customer should be able to visit every aspect of data center construction, rather than just entering a safe space. This balance between human nature and security must be integrated into the planning and design of the data center.

In addition to providing standard customer facilities (such as conference rooms and work areas), today's data centers should provide additional facilities such as game rooms, customer fitness rooms, lockers and showers, and even climbing walls. The concept is to create an operating environment that allows IT professionals to operate efficiently and comfortably.

 

Facilities provided by the data center for customers

Most customers maintain long-term relationships with their data center suppliers. This means that a data center must be designed to expand the computing environment as part of the data center facility environment. This includes, for example, designing a specific rack to improve the power density and optical fiber connection capabilities of the entire data center. Finally, enterprises need to make long-term capacity planning and ensure that the capacity of the facilities will not increase too much.

In today's world, our lives and technologies are intertwined, and the data center is far more than a building. It is the home of the enterprise's key task computing infrastructure, a place where data center professionals work, and a platform for enterprise business growth. In this new world, data centers must be the most comfortable, secure, scalable, flexible, efficient, and reliable place for businesses to succeed.

RagingWire is the first company to open a data center. IT allows potential customers to visit all aspects of the building, including its power supply system, refrigeration equipment, rack cabinets, batteries, and IT equipment, rather than making people feel like entering a strictly secure space. This makes potential customers feel that they are not at risk in the data center and change their traditional concept of the data center.