CBRE
CASE STUDY
ACCESS MORE PRODUCTIVE
SPACE: CONVERT POWER
DEMANDING COMPUTER
SPACE TO PRODUCTIVE
REAL-ESTATE
Digital Realty’s dedicated staff can provide remote
support at the most critical time 24 x 365.
In-house computer and telco
rooms are a huge strain on a
building environmentally, financially
and physically. These tucked away
servers can also pose a security
risk for both their users as well for
the other tenants in the building.
Access More Productive Space: Convert power demanding
computer space to productive real-estate
In thousands of prime US commercial properties are sections of rentable
space being used by energy demanding computer equipment. In-house
computer and telco rooms are a huge strain on a building environmentally,
financially and physically. These tucked away servers can also pose a
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security risk for both their users as well for
the other tenants in the building.
Environmentally, these rooms are
notoriously heavy consumers of power
and create excessive heat loads that use
additional power and even supplemental
cooling systems that can be unsafe and
sometimes unlawful. Many of these rooms
are poorly equipped to deal with the
possible fire risk that such equipment can
create.
Financially, the power use that both
equipment and cooling demand can
directly impact your utility costs as the
heavy consumers skew usage volumes
and
utility rates.
Physically, these in-house data centers
can also stress your building infrastructure
with the extensive floor loading brought
on by racks and stacks of heavy computer
and networking gear as well as other
associated hardware that goes with it.
Floor loads can easily exceed the capacity
design of many buildings.
With the building power
and space freed to
become new leasable
space, your clients
equipment now secure
in an industry leading
data center and referral
commissions paid, the
proposition becomes a
win-win for all parties.
Staffing and securing these room can also pose new challenges in controlling access while also affording the
flexibility to respond to after hours equipment resets or reboots. Segregating and
protecting each client can also expose a property owner to litigation from intentional and unintentional acts
by other users as well.
The Solution:
CBRE and Digital Realty have teamed to deliver a “purpose built” solution to reduce or eliminate these resource
draining configurations.
Digital Realty data centers are “purpose built” buildings that house and secure this very infrastructure within close
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From a networking
and bandwidth
standpoint, Digtal
Realty facilities
can provide direct
internet bandwidth
connectivity to
and from collocated
equipment allowing
for more diverse
connectivity and
greater carrier choice.
From a networking and bandwidth standpoint,
Digital Realty facilities can provide direct internet
bandwidth connectivity to and from collocated
equipment allowing for more diverse connectivity
and greater carrier choice.
Referral Commissions:
proximity to the very buildings the equipment serves.
In addition to proximity these facilities afford the
user with tighter security, greater levels of control
and an unparalleled levels of redundancy in power
and cooling.
Digital Realty’s dedicated staff can provide remote
support at the most critical time 24x365.
ICBRE and Digital Realty have arranged a referral
commissions structure that compensates for new
deployments within Digital Realty facilities. With
the building power and space freed to become
new leasable space, your clients equipment
now secure in an industry leading data center
and referral commissions paid, the proposition
becomes a win-win for all parties.
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About Digital Realty
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. supports the data
center and colocation strategies of more than
1,000 firms across its secure, network-rich
portfolio of data centers located throughout
North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Digital Realty’s clients include domestic and
international companies of all sizes, ranging
from financial services, cloud and information
technology services, to manufacturing, energy,
gaming, life sciences and consumer products.
During the
transition, the
company wanted
to be able to take
advantage of
millisecond trade
processing declines,
and to pass these
benefits on to
its own clients.
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www.digitalrealty.com
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