About the location of the cloud data center.

Cloud computing, the hottest topic of the moment, is in the form of storms, the data center is now walking in the development of the crossroads before wandering in the real estate industry, the most important three factors are position, location, and location, and as the enterprise's entire IT system of large-scale infrastructure construction, important factors are self-evident, Location is very important for data center, at Fork Junction is Data center, location is left or right? Whether the building of the data center must be fixed or can be free from the location constraints, "arbitrary" deployment anywhere, these problems are needed to explore.

convenience, traffic convenience, staff to work is convenient these factors are often some enterprises in the choice of data center location, the first thought, is based on corporate vanity also consider whether the distance from Headquarters, these are basically the traditional trend. In addition to the power costs, network access, security and other factors, the data centers of these enterprises have to behave, designers also need to take into account all factors, to develop a proper combination, in order to achieve greater profits.

These are traditional but not outdated data center location direction, now large data centers are moving towards the remote address development. This is the future cloud data center. The location of these data centers is not important because the data is transmitted at the speed of light in the fiber and looks like the data centers are everywhere. Such data centers are typically large and power up to dozens of megawatts, but they are designed to be very simple, with no excessive cooling, and an outdoor cooling that can take up to 90% of the time or even more. In the power supply, the general use of intermediate or transmission-level voltage, only in order to meet the power requirements of such data centers. There is no need to worry about the cost of electricity and the negative impact of location.

As people's awareness of data centers continues to increase the efficiency of their web sites, coupled with the different natural and energy conditions in each locality, the choice of data centers is more flexible, like Google's plan to implement its own data center, in some frigid areas, Natural cooling systems are also favored. All this indicates that the position is no longer the ultimate ownership of the cloud data center in the new situation.

The future "cloud" data center, although there is not much demand in location, but after all, the data center, and large data centers in the construction costs and continuous operating costs will be higher than other types of Web site data centers, the requirements of the design team also increased, The design team needs to carefully tailor a program for the data center based on local special environmental conditions and power costs to minimize the cost per megawatt of construction and subsequent operations. At this point the requirements of the designers are consistent with the requirements of the traditional data center construction.

The "Cloud" data center is the new direction of development, but in the establishment of data centers, not simply chasing the "cloud", but based on the situation of the enterprise to select the data center type, and gradually consider choosing the location of the data center, according to their own situation to make a choice. Although at a fork in the road, but the situation has been very obvious, "cloud" data center where to go, we call the shots.