Location, location, location could well be the mantra
for UK firms when they consider theirdatacentre purchasing
optionsaccording to new research from
datacentre solutions specialists Sentrum.
The survey revealed that the key criteria for companies in
formulating strategies for
datacentre expansion or consolidation are number of sites
(36%), location (32%), timescales (27%) and proximity to fibre
(26%). Surprisingly, said Sentrum, availability of power and real
estate market conditions were considered as key criteria by only
16%. Only 15% of firms were considering all six key criteria nearly
half did not deem it important to factor-in consistently any of
these criteria in to the decision making process.
A third of firms cited economic reasons for any
potential datacentre moves with 38% of large companies saying
that they would consider locating their datacentre further away
from existing premises if they were able to reduce power
consumption by 25–30% per annum. On average, companies were
located 97 miles away from their datacentre.
In terms of attitudes towards choosing a third-party operator to
assist in building or developing a data centre, the report showed
that experience (58%) and cost (57%) are rated far higher than
speed (18%).