BUILDING DATA CENTERS BIGGER , SMARTER , FASTER
“ We have been innovating in the area of modular design and supply chain , to both shorten construction lead times and to lower costs ”
— Kevin Dalton , Senior Vice President of Construction and Critical Facilities Engineering and Design ( CFED ) at RagingWire
center , but most are executing a hybrid strategy that includes legacy applications , proprietary systems , private cloud , and public cloud .
“ Hybrid IT is the new world order and I don ’ t think you will find any CIO in America who has not contemplated or executed a cloud component to their overall strategy ,” Goldsmith said .
BUILDING DATA CENTERS BIGGER , SMARTER , FASTER
Kevin Dalton ’ s job is to locate , design and construct new data center space .
To do this , he and Joe Goldsmith work closely with customers to understand their business plans and capacity requirements . “ This is an iterative process for us in collaboration with our customers ,” says Dalton . “ Clearly , without access to reliable , cost-effective power and fiber connectivity you can ’ t have a data center . Cost of land and labor are other challenges .”
But these are secondary to being in the right location at the right time . RagingWire is constructing , for example , a new four-story data center , SV1 , in Santa Clara , California , in the heart of Silicon Valley . The 160,000 sq . ft . facility is going up on a 3.3 acre site , with 64,000 sq . ft of data floor space and 16 MW of scalable , critical IT power and will be operational in 2020 .
New data center space in Santa Clara is rare . The vacancy rate among at least 30 data centers in the area is under 8 %. There will be no lack of takers for RagingWire ’ s new facility .
To be prepared for the ground-shaking that is characteristic of the Bay Area , RagingWire ’ s SV1 Data Center will feature a seismic-stability system used by NTT in its data center in Japan , a location
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