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Gradual build out

Schneider’s overriding advice for data managers is to build out gradually, and not to make investment decisions across entire facilities too quickly.

Instead it recommends taking a modular approach and assessing the movement of the data market every one to two years to judge future patterns. That’s of course, if we can overcome our basic human instinct to do a job well but above all do it the once.

“Generally we all dislike lengthy planning projects, and we hate seeking repeat approvals at multiple stages,” explained Bunger.

“It’s a major reason why companies want to build all in one go, but this approach doesn’t provide flexibility or allow room for future insight and adaptation. So we suggest spending more time researching and developing data-centre design and creating strict policies that support that thinking.”

Schneider recommends setting and enforcing policies on how equipment is deployed across the whole business, and not simply leaving it to project managers. Also that facility managers might want to enforce policies limiting the densities they will allow in their data centre, from the outset.

So Schneider IS selling something after all. It wants to put itself forward as the one-stop-shop for physical infrastructure policy planning, designing, building, monitoring and upgrades. Fair enough and, frankly, we’d have been a little suspicious if it didn’t have some sort of motive.

The question is whether it has less of vested interest than the box shifters.

If Schneider does have its sums right then taking an box-vendor neutral approach could mean you get the size of data centre you need, without shelling out on excess capacity that'll never get used. ®

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