Choosing between data center solutions without difficulty

It is more or less undeniable that when choosing between data center solutions, you are likely to opt for the one that has a sustainable design. Perhaps you may want to go a step further and specifically choose the solution that has either already been awarded with LEED Certification or has the possibility of receiving in the days to come. However, a sustainable design may point you in the right direction but it cannot help you in making the right choice and you have to look for other important points including scalability. And while determine the extent of scalability, you must keep in mind that your business is likely to grow in terms of its size. 

Furthermore, you have to dig deeper and find out if your increasing requirements of power and cooling can be satiated by the infrastructure. It is only after you have assessed these points that you will be able to determine whether or not scalability is there in the first place. Nevertheless, there is a reason because of which you should shift your focus to scalability and ensure that it is there under all circumstances. Interestingly, if scalability is missing from the picture, you can simply forget about TCO savings, which you would have typically expected from all good data center solutions.

Amid too many solutions, you are always advised to go for the one that brings in volume pricing and is ready to pass on the benefits reaped because of low market operational costs. As a matter of fact, these low costs, if passed on to you, can help you in saving lots of dollars as far as the data center lease is concerned. Therefore, it is rather imperative that you emphasize on scalability as well as low operational costs, thereby ensuring that the solutions do not turn out to be an expensive affair.

In the meantime, if you have already crosschecked scalability, you now require looking for flexibility in order to ensure that the process of choosing between solutions becomes a lot easier. For this, you need to find out if you are being made to sacrifice in terms of cost and efficiency just because you have been looking for a specific product size that brings along inherent scalability. At the time, as long as possible, you should stay away from gigantic multi-tenant architectures as these are likely to pose several challenges, thereby affecting flexibility, or rather eliminating it.