Business Chief USA February 2019

contemplating the overall design of a
project. “Future-proofing is typically
focused on increased density; with
CPUs getting increasingly powerful,
they draw more and more power,”
notes Coleman. “Historically, what happens
in the data centre when you look
at the retail or wholesale environment,
is that a company with a traditional
15-year lease for a larger deployment
will start to see a lot of empty space in
the room because as they go through
a tech refresh cycle, the equipment
they’re installing is getting smaller,
while requiring an equal amount of
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“Aligned’s approach is to design a
physical, electrical, and mechanical
infrastructure that is very quickly
deployable, but also deployable in
the right-sized increments to meet
customers’ unique capacity needs and
requirements – now and in the future”
—
Mike Coleman,
Global Head of Design & Delivery, Aligned
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