{"id":7959,"date":"2017-06-15T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/news-1740\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T09:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:00:40","slug":"news-1740","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/15\/news-1740\/","title":{"rendered":"Interxion and Schneider Electric Meet the Challenge: A State-of-the-Art Colocation Data Center Deployed in Just Two Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Greg Jones| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:02:40 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Success in the colocation and cloud computing markets often comes down to being in the right place at the right time. If you\u2019ve got reliable, efficient data center capacity in an area where there\u2019s great demand, chances are you\u2019ll get your share of business.<\/p>\n

Of course, market leaders such as Interxion often find themselves in that right place at that right time. That\u2019s why they have long focused on locating their data centers (now 45 of them) in locations with high business demand as well as connectivity points to other countries and continents. For instance, Interxion has seven data centers in Paris due to the market and business conditions — France is Europe\u2019s third largest economy and more than 75% of the country\u2019s IT spending resides in or around Paris.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur data centers are gateways to emerging markets and landing stations for major continental subsea cables,\u201d the company\u2019s web site states<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of its most recent data centers is in Marseille, on the southern coast of France. Known as Marseille 2 (or MRS2), this data center is located near the site of a new undersea cable that gives Interxion\u2019s customers community wide connectivity to Africa, the Middle East and Asia.<\/p>\n

Schneider Electric has long been a partner to Interxion, helping with data center design, construction and operation, as detailed in this video<\/a> featuring Fabrice Coquio, President of Interxion France. We were involved in both the latest Paris data center, known as PAR7, and MRS2 \u2013 and the two sites were quite different from each another.<\/p>\n

PAR7 is housed in what would be considered a traditional data center building. It has 64 MW of power capacity and supports high density infrastructure – up to 2300W per square meter. It offers access to three Internet exchanges, including France-IX and all the major carriers and ISPs. MRS2, on the other hand, is located in a warehouse near the site where that undersea cable is located.<\/p>\n

Interxion needed the facility built in a hurry \u2013 just two months \u2013\u00a0in order to meet its customer obligations.<\/p>\n

Schneider Electric was able to provide a solution for both the location and timing issues: prefabricated data center modules. We installed modules into a section of the warehouse, turning it into a state-of-the-art data center. If you were standing in the data center space, you\u2019d have no idea that you were actually inside an old warehouse. It looks, feels and, most importantly, performs as any of Interxion\u2019s other data centers do \u2013 with 99.999% reliability.<\/p>\n

The MRS2 project reminded me of the keynote address<\/a>\u00a0delivered by Rhonda Ascierto, Research Director at 451 Research, at the recent Schneider Electric International Colocation Club event in Paris.\u00a0As I wrote in this recent post<\/a>, she noted that prefabricated modules can fit in almost any kind of shell. \u201cThere\u2019s really no limit\u201d in design choices, she said. \u201cPut aside any preconceived notions you may have around prefab and take a second look.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to meeting Interxion\u2019s timeframe and location goals, PAR7 and MRS2 are also highly energy efficient. In part that\u2019s because the company has long used Schneider Electric StruxureWare software to optimize its energy use.<\/p>\n

Check out the video<\/a> with Fabrice Coquio to learn more about the long-standing partnership between Schneider Electric and Interxion \u2013 maybe it\u2019ll spark some ideas on how you can add to or improve upon your own company\u2019s data centers.<\/p>\n

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