Feature Challenges In Asset Management
The DC market is changing and presents both a new challenge and risk, particularly with co-lo and hyperscalers facing the new challenge of the asset upgrades and refurbishment of the existing DCs. With some DCs transacting billions of pounds worth of transactions per day, they are in the similar positions and face similar challenges. These challenges include:
• Delivering complex infrastructure and asset upgrade in the existing data centres keeping the uptime
• Obtaining best analysis regarding the risk criticality, timing of replacement, sequence and delivery methodologies
• Overlapping and better engaging multiple stakeholders including sustainability, compliance, finance, security, ICT and achieving an alignment on the extract project scope, performance outputs, impact on the business continuity, and impact on SLAs with the tenants and FM providers
There is a gap in the capability to effectively deliver asset upgrade programmes in the existing facilities. Due to this, there might be tendency to react, break-fix and to manage the estate by exception.
Estates and facilities are strongly advised to think about their real estate and asset management strategies and vision, start with the policy and make sure it is aligned and, more importantly, support
the overall organisational strategy. They can then work through building up the roadmap and 10–15-year asset management plans, looking at it holistically (CAPEX/OPEX/carbon), aligning procurement strategy, thinking of people and other resources as assets, whilst forming the delivery execution plans.
Lots of smaller (up to 10 MW) existing sites operate at 30-50 capacity. Their biggest challenge is the demand for the space that comes from cloud providers, who generally demand 10 MW+ capacity and expect it to be deployed in 3-6 months! A lot of co-lo providers realise that for business continuity, they have to invest and secure, perhaps, unexpected funding from the investors.
Looking Ahead
With the world converging, the DC market finds itself pulled into the rapid development of technologies and Net Zero pressures, meaning that successful investors, developers and operators must innovate and stay agile with their strategies and execution.
Cloud providers are under fearless pressures of commoditisation and are increasingly starting to leverage their whole value chain, including DC design, build and operation, to create better and additional value to the cloud users. The most successful of these, once realising the dynamics they are finding themselves in, have started to invest heavily in developing new competencies to stay in the game and not to be consumed.
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