Determining the Viability of the Project

   

There are times when too many compromises must be made to make the data center project viable . It might be something obvious (you can't get enough power from the local power company or there are frequent flooding problems), or it might be a number of small factors that, when looked at collectively, show that the project is a bad risk. Consider the following possible constraints on the project:

  • Inadequate budget

  • Retrofit problems such as grounding , cable routing, inadequate floor to ceiling height, no way to set up seismic restraints, etc.

  • Better business decision to use co-location or ISP, if only temporarily

  • Inadequate pool of qualified employees

  • Overly expensive location

  • Inadequate district or too remote

  • Inadequate or inappropriate space

  • Inadequate power. Can't connect to separate parts of the grid for redundancy

  • Inadequate cooling capacity

  • Inadequate ISP service

  • Local building codes, insurance, or fire regulations are too restrictive

  • Too many weather or seismic problems

  • High history of fires

Most of these problems have to do with the inadequacies of the location. For more information, see Chapter 5, "Site Selection."

   


Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology
Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology
ISBN: 0130473936
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 142
Authors: Rob Snevely

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