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How to Estimate Data Center Expansion Costs

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The question is: what should go into the budget?


Building It and Running It


The total cost of ownership or TCO is the overall metric to use


Specifying the New DC Facility


If you already have one data center in operation, will the additional one simply be more of the same?


Not necessarily, for the following reasons:


• Data center technology continues to evolve (a DC over 7 years old is considered to be obsolete by industry observers Gartner, Inc.)


• Your own business needs may have evolved. Perhaps you started with Tier 1 facilities, but now you need Tier 4 (or even vice versa)


• Your first DC was over or under-dimensioned. There’s no point in repeating earlier mistakes


Grabbing a site first because it is affordable, available or both, and then trying to shoehorn new DC facilities into it is the wrong way round


Numbers for Budgets Don’t Come Out of Hats


Budgeting typically needs to be zero-based (from scratch),


starting with business objectives (capacity, security, future needs)


that are then accurately translated into DC building characteristics and features


Extra Bits and Pieces


Two further things can upset an otherwise carefully prepared budget:


• Items you forgot to include, such as the possible cost of moving systems and data between the current DC and the new facility


• Factors like LEED project and construction criteria to help make the new facility as ecologically friendly as possible


Wow, Is It Really Going to Cost That Much?


Budgets can also be bigger than funds available, whatever the levels under discussion


If so, other solutions may be preferable


They may include the use of colocation facilities,


where all-in monthly fees can be easier to handle as well as being more affordable


Is modular design the solution for easy expansion of data centers?


Share your opinion with us with a line or two in the space for comments below


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