{"id":13449,"date":"2018-09-26T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/news-7216\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T11:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:00:48","slug":"news-7216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/news-7216\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexibility is Key for Meeting Colocation Customer Requirements at Kao Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Greg Jones| Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of my duties at Datacloud Europe 2018 was to chair a panel of leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider-electric.com\/en\/work\/solutions\/for-business\/cloud-and-service-providers\/colocation.jsp\">colocation<\/a> players discussing how data centers are evolving to meet shifting clients\u2019 needs. Amongst the companies were technology leaders from Interxion, Green Mountain and Kao Data who laid out their approaches for meeting customer expectations. An overarching theme that surfaced in our discussion was flexible data center solutions \u2013 particularly by means of open compute (OCP).<\/p>\n<h2>Colocation Customers Looking at OCP Options<\/h2>\n<p>In a report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider-electric.com\/promo\/us\/en\/getPromo\/A00812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cCustomer Insight: Future-proofing your colocation business,\u201d<\/a> 451 Research conveyed the data point that 51% of customers surveyed said the availability of OCP-ready white space would make them more willing to use a colocation provider. A small but growing number of colocation providers have designated OCP-compliant white space.<\/p>\n<p>One company that has taken the rise of OCP very seriously is wholesale data center market entrant, Kao Data. Recently, they have been working to get their new Kao Data London One facility validated against the OCP Data Center Facility project checklist, covering power, cooling, IT space layout and design, monitoring and control and facility operation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkrrM-CojCU?rel=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Management and control are key aspects of OCP compliance, as well as being best practice for data center operations. Kao Data London One is heavily instrumented including with environmental sensors to ensure that IT loads are kept within ASHRAE thermal guidelines as well as protecting against gaseous contamination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOCP is looking to drive down costs,\u201d says Gerard Thibault, CTO at Kao Data, \u201cat the same time, Kao Data is looking to provide better solutions for customers.\u201d The key to this is flexibility. Kao Data London One has been constructed and engineered to deliver tailored solutions to meet specific customer requirements including availability and energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Thibault brings 20 years of industry experience to his role at Kao Data. He has overseen infrastructure design and innovation at companies including Digital Realty, Rackspace and Global Crossing. He says, \u201cOver the years I have used trends as the basis for continual improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Kao Data London One data center was launched in January of 2018, as part of a $250 m campus investment to provide 35MW technical space with low latency connectivity to key locations including the City of London\/ Docklands and technical hubs in Cambridge and East London.<\/p>\n<h2>Flexible Solutions to Scale with Colocation Customer Needs<\/h2>\n<p>Kao Data has adapted their approach to the provision of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) in availability zones. Thibault notes, \u201cFlexibility is important because so many applications have different resiliency requirements. For example, financial software may need 2N, whereas distributed redundant systems can be utilized for less critical applications. There are different price points for each.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The data center is also configured for customers of the OCP environment who may wish to run without centralized UPS protection for supporting anything other than networks. It also meets logistics requirements including elevator and door sizes, overhead provisioning of power and network infrastructure, cooling requirements and floor loading.<\/p>\n<p>The facility was built without a raised floor \u2013 one of the drivers of OCP \u2013 which also takes out both cost and program for delivering space. However, for colocation and retail space providers, a raised floor can be installed according to the required specification. Kao Data would still be providing the key environment \u2013 air and power.<\/p>\n<p>Kao Data is seeing a far greater take-up in the hyperscale market, with customers looking for flexibility. So, they\u2019ve built a facility focused on the core needs of hyperscale. However, Thibault is quick to point out, \u201cThe hyperscale inspired data center is not just for hyperscalers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monitoring is also key to this approach. \u201cWith tools like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneider-electric.com\/en\/work\/campaign\/innovation\/datacenters.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EcoStruxure<\/a> from Schneider Electric,\u201d Thibault says, \u201cwe\u2019ve got multiple sensors around the facility telling us what\u2019s happening in the facility. It provides the ability to lock the doors and turn the lights out on large volume deployments.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Access Key Takeaways from DataCloud Europe<\/h2>\n<p>To hear more from Gerard Thibault, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LkrrM-CojCU&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch the interview<\/a> from the event<a href=\"#_msocom_3\" name=\"_msoanchor_3\"><\/a>. And if you\u2019d like to and gain even more insights into our discussions at Datacloud Europe, please check out my &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/co-location\/2018\/06\/28\/top-takeaways-datacloud-europe-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top 5 Takeaways<\/a>&#8221; blog post.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/datacenter\/2018\/09\/26\/flexibility-colocation-customer-requirements-kao-data\/\">Flexibility is Key for Meeting Colocation Customer Requirements at Kao Data<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\">Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/datacenter\/2018\/09\/26\/flexibility-colocation-customer-requirements-kao-data\/\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Greg Jones| Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 18:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of my duties at Datacloud Europe 2018 was to chair a panel of leading colocation players discussing how data centers are evolving to meet shifting clients\u2019 needs. Amongst the&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/datacenter\/2018\/09\/26\/flexibility-colocation-customer-requirements-kao-data\/\" title=\"ReadFlexibility is Key for Meeting Colocation Customer Requirements at Kao Data\">Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\/datacenter\/2018\/09\/26\/flexibility-colocation-customer-requirements-kao-data\/\">Flexibility is Key for Meeting Colocation Customer Requirements at Kao Data<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.schneider-electric.com\">Schneider Electric Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[12389,12388],"tags":[19594,12390,12817,12391,12400,12818,12432,19595,13991],"class_list":["post-13449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scadaics","category-schneider","tag-ashrae","tag-colocation","tag-colocation-provider","tag-data-center","tag-data-center-operations","tag-datacloud-europe","tag-ecostruxure","tag-kao-data","tag-ocp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}