Where should the data center be?

July 15th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

http://www.onestopclick.com/news/Managed-data-centre-set-for-move_18671603.html

One firm has chosen to move its managed data centre outside of its London Docklands base.

Desdner Kleinwort has chosen to move the centre to Watford as part of a multimillion pound project.

It hopes the move will reduce costs and energy usage, with the company saying rising energy bills had “certainly influenced” their plans.

It will be interesting to see if we will see more organizations move further afield away from the London area, as a result of reducing costs, or as part of their strategy to be more efficient with the IT infrastructure. In some respects it can make more sense operationally and financially to move those back office/administration systems, those ones that might not ‘generate’ direct revenue out of your prime real estate or even to outsource it. To have my tier one systems, my core business functions where the business is, connected to the real time market feeds, whether the server that stores my word documents, or the web server that allows me to book a meeting room is downstairs or 100 miles away is of limited consequence if we can support it, deliver service and free up more space, more power for systems that connect me to the market, limit my risk or directly generate revenue or prestige for my organization.

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  1. Comment by Dan C on 18 July 2008:

    We are in the process of doing much the same; decommissioning our relatively old installations at Docklands in favour of leaving the city.

    For us this is partly a result of density and costs. Partly a result of our own business not indeed being located near Docklands. It seems that there is no longer a requirement - that of resources or mindset - that datacenters need to be in the city. Which can only be a positive change in my mind.

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