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Case Study: Financial Services and Banking – It Only Took 410 Days to Build the Empire State Building

Digital Realty Trust — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:26:10 +0000

You’re one of the largest financial institutions in the world and you need a new datacenter. It won’t be your first one so it should be pretty simple right? Not so much. The lessons the customer learned after making this assumption give new definition to the phrase “Don’t try this at home”.

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Case Study: Financial Services and Banking – Consolidation

Digital Realty Trust — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:52:29 +0000

No one builds data centers faster than Digital Realty Trust. Learn about how this capability helped a Wall Street survivor.

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Case Study: Financial Services and Banking – Power Requirements

Digital Realty Trust — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:49:49 +0000

Developing the requirements for a data center are the end product of a firm’s power usage. See how one company’s understanding of power measurement helped them get the facility that they needed.

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Case Study: IT Hardware and Services – LEED Platinum

Digital Realty Trust — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:37:35 +0000

Energy efficiency and data center sustainability meet as Digital Realty Trust and a leading chip maker develop a plan for a new data center.

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Digital Realty Trust and KDC: A New Build-to-Suit Alternative

Digital Realty Trust — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:16:56 +0000

Digital Realty Trust’s and KDC’s strategic alliance delivers a vertically integrated solution for your Build To Suit project. Digital Realty Trust provides the following benefits versus building your data center yourself:

Better: Your facility is built by the leaders in corporate Build to Suit solutions and wholesale data centers
Faster: Your data center will be completed in half the time required versus building it yourself
Simpler: Digital Realty Trust and KDC offer you a “one stop shop” for your build to suit facility
Cheaper: The lease for your facility is free from financial contingency.

The Evolution of the Customer Specific Data Center Alternative

Digital Realty Trust — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:26:06 +0000

Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President, Chris Crosby, talks about how firm’s with specific data center requirements now have viable alternatives to designing and building these facilities themselves.

Podcast: Where are new datacentres being built?

Digital Realty Trust — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:18:09 +0000

Where are new datacentres being built? In city centres, the suburbs, or where renewable energy is plentiful? The answers may surprise you.

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Myth-of-the-Month: Data Center Density

Digital Realty Trust — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:41:43 +0000

This month Jim Smith dispels certain myths surrounding data center density.

Importance of Level 5 Commissioning

Digital Realty Trust — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:54:24 +0000

The importance of applications housed within corporate data centers only continues to increase. In this white paper, we highlight how critical it is for your data center facility’s systems to perform as required under maximum load. However, we point out that even as all data center providers perform some level of commissioning, not all data center constructs cannot perform the necessary level of testing.

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Also known as the “integration phase”, Level 5 commissioning is the most important component of the commissioning process. In this phase, every aspect of the data center is tested while it is running at its maximum capacity. In other words, every component and system of the facility must prove its ability to perform when the data center is operating in its most stressful environment. During Level 5 commissioning, all failure modes are tested and resiliency is validated, including scenarios such as:

How do the back-up systems perform in the event of a dropped utility line?

How do the redundant units respond when a CRAC fails?

Does the facility’s power architecture switch over upon the failure of a UPS?

The Real Data Center Timeline

Digital Realty Trust — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:00:46 +0000

Digital Realty Trust’s Senior Vice President, Chris Crosby, articulates alternatives available to you in designing and constructing your new data center facility. This webinar defines the tasks that are associated with acquiring, designing and constructing a data center facility and the issues associated with each of them. It addresses the degree of risk inherent in each of these options to help assist you in choosing the alternative that best addresses your corporate needs.