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June 4, 2004

Data Center Site Selection

by Colin Rankine

with Galen Schreck, Thomas Powell

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Site selection and geographic distribution of critical operations centers has transitioned from the tactical, driven by cost alone, to the strategic, driven by both cost and risk mitigation considerations. Technology improvements have relaxed many historical constraints on data center operations that forced hardware and human assets to be considered as a single unit. Leading IT organizations are now basing policy on the assumption that data center (machine rooms) and staff locations ("people centers") are logically associated but physically independent entities in this respect.

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