Top 5 Modular Data Center Construction Companies

I have a post on the Top 5 Data Center Construction companies.  This post is a list of the Top 5 Modular Data Center Construction companies.  This list is based on conversations at conferences, bars, e-mail and phone calls and what companies come up.  If you don't already have these companies on your RFI list, you may now.

1. Dell Modula Data Center

The Smart Alternative to a Brick-and-Mortar Data Center: Dell MDC

Intelligent Connectivity and Flexibility: The Dell Modular Data Center
Take a look at the hyperefficient, snap-together, flexible choice over the traditional brick-and-mortar or pod-type data center: the Dell™ Modular Data Center (MDC) solution. Many key benefits make the Dell MDC a compelling alternative for your data center solution. Read a few of those benefits:

• Speed: The Dell MDC can be designed, built, and up and running 75 percent faster than a traditional data center.
• Efficient: Designed for hyperefficiency, the Dell MDC choice provides important advantages for flexible growth and cost reduction. When you choose an MDC from Dell, the Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) engineering team works hard to optimize your entire data center to reduce operational costs. Best of all, the MDC is modular, so you can add only the modules you need, incrementally, as you grow, without substantial up-front costs.
• Flexible: Where the competition force fits IT into a rigid shipping container, we collaborate with customers like you to custom build your MDC.

2. HP POD (Performance Optimized Datacenters)

HP Performance Optimized Data Centers (HP PODs) are a portfolio of breakthrough, modular data centers that help enterprises rapidly and efficiently expand data center capacity and meet increasing service level agreements. Compared to traditional brick-and-mortar data centers, HP PODs help you scale capacity on demand, reduce capital expenditures and increase energy efficiency. Along with our complete portfolio of HP POD solutions, HP provides turnkey solutions that help customers deliver on their data center strategies saving time and maximizing performance.

3. Compass Data Centers

Your mission critical applications are too important to be housed in the same data center with other customers in a data center located hundreds of miles from your operations team. A Compass dedicated data center is built for you alone to control your operational costs, enhance security, and simplify your day to day operations like moves, adds and changes; and it can be delivered within six (6) months of pad ready site. The benefits of a having a dedicated facility would be worthless if it wasn’t located where you needed it, and that’s why Compass will build your new data center exactly where you want it.

4. AST Modular 

AST Modular offers a range of fully integrated modular data centers which provide unmatched flexibility, resiliency, and energy efficiency. Our offering includes containerized ISO datacenters, NON ISO modular datacenters and datacenter modular rooms. The three systems offer a scalable method of quickly developing data centre capacity, require minimal work on site and can be operational in a fraction of the time it takes for a traditional build. -

5. Commscope Data Center Solutions

Discover data center solutions that evolve with your needs

Data centers are at the center of everything a business does, and modern applications are demanding more and more of them than ever before. IT operations are struggling to meet demand, manage costs and maximize uptime in the face of several key challenges:

RMS Launches its First Data Center - Green with 100% renewable energy

This last week I was in Iceland at a media/analyst event sponsored by RMS, Datapipe, and Verne Global.  Honestly, I spent so much time talking to so many different people, I find it easier to reference the public disclosures than to write on my own. :-)

The #1 topic of interest to me is RMS as a customer choose its first data center to be a green one with 100% renewable with Datapipe in Verne Global's data center.

Here is the press release from the customer, RMS.  This is RMS's first data center, a green one with 100% renewable energy.

RMS Launches First Global Data Center, Taps Verne Global and Datapipe for 100 Percent Green Computing Environment

Verne Global and Datapipe deliver renewably powered high-performance computing for RMS’ revolutionary exposure and risk management environment

KEFLAVIK, Iceland – Sept. 19, 2013 – Verne Global today announced that RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk modeling firm, is deploying its RMS Cloud from Verne Global’s data center campus in Iceland. Powered by the RMS Cloud, RMS(one)TM, the insurance industry’s first real-time exposure and risk management environment, will empower insurers and reinsurers to execute risk modeling, underwriting and portfolio management on a single, open platform hosted in a 100 percent green environment. RMS(one) TM will leverage Datapipe’s Stratosphere® high-performance computing (HPC) green cloud platform for peak loads.

“With RMS(one) running on the RMS Cloud we are giving our customers unprecedented freedom, business agility and competitive advantage by allowing them to execute on their entire exposure and risk management strategies,” said Bobby Soni, chief platform and services officer at RMS. “RMS(one) offers the industry’s first secure, reliable and scalable computing platform coupled with big data infrastructure, which streamlines our customers’ modeling, underwriting and portfolio management processes.” 

Here is one post from ZDNet's David Chernicoff.

RMS demonstrates the importance of the private cloud

Summary: Lack of reliability in Amazon EC2 a major motivator in private cloud investment

By David Chernicoff for Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter |September 20, 2013 -- 12:51 GMT (05:51 PDT)

 

When RMS looked at deploying the betas of their cutting edge insurance risk management solution,RMSone, to their customers they realized that the cloud-based service would be significantly less valuable if it wasn’t incredibly reliable.

Here in DatacenterKnowledge's post from Rich Miller.

Data Center Customers Warming to Iceland

September 19th, 2013By: Rich Miller

Verne Global CEO Jeff Monroe calls its Iceland-based data center “the ultimate energy hedge” for its ability to provide long-term price visibility through 12 to 20-year contracts. (Photo: Colleen Miller)

and a post from Colleen Miller.

Free Cooling in Iceland: A Closer Look at the Verne Global Data Center

September 19th, 2013By: Colleen Miller

 

•  KEFLAVIK, ICELAND - Verne Global, which announced a cloud launch this week by client Datapipe and its client risk-modeling specialist RMS, is uniquely positioned from a geographical and business perspective. Verne is taking advantage of the geography of Iceland to operate a data center that is run on 100 percent renewable energy sources, and leverages the chilly climate in Iceland, located just below the Arctic Circle. The geography and geology of Iceland allows the local power companies to use natural resources such as hydro power and geothermal resources to produce electricity. Data Center Knowledge took a tour of this unique data center facility this week. Our photo feature gives insight into the facility, which is being deployed with a modular approach, and seeks to draw clients from both the United States and European countries. SeeVerne Global Data Center Leverages Iceland Power, Cooling.

Ericsson launches 3 Greener Data Centers, 2 Sweden, 1 Montreal

Here is a video of Ericsson's press release for its new data centers.  This increases the chance of future services from Ericsson to optimize services from data centers to the mobile user.

And another video of the CEO talking about the data centers.

The data center has green features.

The data centers will be coming on line in 2014 and 2015.  Note vendors, it looks like Ericsson is well on the way so they already have made their vendor choices.

Here is the press release for the three data centers.  And the one that is specific for Canada.

An example of a future service from Ericsson is SDN described here.

The data center growth that doesn't get reported, the big players are growing much faster

I read this Network Computing article that was reporting on an Uptime Study.

Data Center Study: The Big Get Bigger

Posted by Kurt Marko
August 14, 2013

Business success goes to those that can strategically and efficiently wield technology, and in this data saturated and hyper-connected age, that requires data centers. The latest Uptime Institute Data Center Industry Survey demonstrates that scale matters and operating data centers and computer rooms, which was never a task for amateurs, is increasingly the realm of those that make data centers their core business.

Uptime's survey, with responses from 1,000 data center facilities operators, IT managers and senior executives from around the globe, shows data center operators are expecting healthy budgets, with nearly a third in the U.S. and Europe seeing increases of 10% or more. Most of the bump is driven by third-party operators, which the Uptime Institute defines as "companies that provide computing capacity as a service in any form: Software as a Service, cloud computing, multi-tenant colocation, or wholesale data center providers."

The really big players Google, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Facebook, and Apple are not going to fill out out an Uptime Institute Survey to report their growth.  I define the BIG as those who run 100,000 servers plus.

Netcraft reports on AWS's growth of 10% in 4 months.

Surveys are good for those who don't know.  For those who know they would laugh at growth of the big players estimated in the 10% + range.

BMW's i3 a car with carbon fiber made from low carbon power from Eastern Washington

I heard about the BMW i3 and when I looked it up the carbon fiber is manufactured in a new Moses Lake, WA.  Near where other data centers have gone.

At a dedicated facility in Moses Lake, Washington, BMW has partnered with SGL Group to fill all the i3's carbon fiber requirements. Producing carbon fiber since 2011, the hi-tech CFRP facility runs two lines, capable of producing 1,500 tonnes of fiber per year. Fibers are then shipped to the Wackersdorf Innovation Park where they are transformed into basic carbon fiber sheets. From there the sheets are shipped to the Bavarian villa of Landshut, and pressed into various CFRP components for the i3. BMW claims that in comparison to conventional CFRP production, CO2 output from the Moses Lake facility is roughly 50 percent less than its competitors.

Here is a 15 minute video that discuss the process and show the carbon fiber plant.