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Closer Look: Digital Realty POD 2.0 Architecture

Posted By Rich Miller On May 21, 2012 @ 8:36 am In Modular Data Centers | No Comments

A look at electrical equipment featured in POD Architecture 2.0, Digital Realty's approach to pre-fabricated, modular infrastructure, which was on display last week at The Uptime Symposium in Santa Clara, Calif. (Photo: Colleen Miller)

As the world’s largest operator of mission-critical facilities, Digital Realty is a major force in the data center construction business. Digital Realty has focused its focus on modular design on the mechanical and electrical infrastructure, rather than enclosures for the IT equipment. At last week’s Uptime Symposium, Chief Technology Officer Jim Smith gave us an overview of how Digital Realty incorporates pre-fabricated infrastructure into its data centers, and showed off the on-site POD Architecture 2.0 modules. This video runs about 8 minutes.

For a look at all four of the modules on display at Uptime, see Modular Monday: A Closer Look at Four Offerings [1].

For more about modular designs, check out our Modular Data Centers Channel [2]. For additional video, see our DCK video archive [3] and the Data Center Videos [4]channel on YouTube.

About Rich Miller [5]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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[1] Modular Monday: A Closer Look at Four Offerings: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/05/21/modular-monday-closer-look-at-4-offerings/

[2] Modular Data Centers Channel: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/infrastructure/containers/

[3] DCK video archive: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/07/26/archives/data_center_videos-index.html

[4] Data Center Videos : http://www.youtube.com/user/DataCenterVideos

[5] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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