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"Fit for purpose" : is office space fit for a data centre?

Overview Despite the increasing demands of new technologies and the resulting need to house data centres in purpose-designed facilitiies; the majority of businesses continue to locate their staff and mission-critical IT systems within the same environments. Traditional office buildings however, cannot supply the level of resiliencerequired, placing unprecedented demands on building infrastructure and services and increasing the risk of costly downtime.

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Publisher	Global Switch	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2006	Downloads	683
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management

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