Getting the Data Center You Want in Today’s Economy

Digital Realty Trust provides perspectives that incorporate aspects from financing and Total Cost of Ownership to the most efficient methodology to identify and obtain space under increasingly more stringent time constraints.

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Although any large expenditure has always received a good deal of financial scrutiny within organizations, the current economy can be expected to elevate this review process to even higher levels within the corporate hierarchy. This may manifest itself in different ways such as added levels of sign-off required before project approval. What is undeniable is that more diligence will be required in developing the business case for a new data center than ever before. This is understandable for a variety of reasons, not the least of which being that the cost of the data center is typically only about a third of the total project cost with migration and infrastructure costs making up the other two-thirds. In order to surmount the added financial hurdles that will face data center executives in gaining project approval, business cases will require an intense focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).