Understanding the Special Forces of the Data Center

Digital Realty Trust shares insight into the four dynamic forces that exist in every data center.

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Balancing the Special Forces: A Practical Example
Achieving a balance between the four “special forces” begins with determining the customer’s level of risk adversity and then identifying the most cost efficient solution to be incorporated into its data center. The sum of this process is typically based on the customer’s answers to five essential questions:

• What risk am I concerned with and what is its likelihood?
• How can I design my facility to mitigate these risks?
• How can facility operations mitigate that risk?
• What are the capital and operating costs of the various approaches?
• Which investment is the business prepared to make to mitigate that risk?