It has never been harder to deploy new IT capacity. A perfect storm has formed in the data center industry, making it exceedingly difficult for organizations to add racks for compute, storage, networks, or HPC when and where they need them. This situation has turned the supply-and-demand model upside down, with demand for data centers exceeding supply.
The demand is being driven by several trends: massive investments in AI, continued growth of cloud computing, replacement of outdated infrastructure, support of higher-density racks, and the relentless increase in the global volume of data. Our industry has never seen this level of demand, which is skyrocketing at a time when supply is facing several constraint challenges: the scarcity of suitable land, limited power infrastructure, supply chain bottlenecks, permitting complexity, zoning, and even construction workforce shortages.
As a result, there is little available capacity, and data center delivery lead times have lengthened to years, with durations getting longer day-by-day. This imbalance of demand and supply is creating a dilemma for organizations of every size: They need to deploy racks right away, and their IT needs can’t wait for the longer delivery times of new fixed data center facilities or expansions of their existing data centers.
A Game-Changer for Rapidly Deploying IT Capacity
Quantum, a Compass Datacenters company, solves this dilemma with its award-winning modular data center solution, making it possible to deploy rapidly IT capacity wherever it is needed. At a time when the industry timeline for new facilities is counted in years, Quantum can deploy rack-ready data center space in months, thereby meeting the needs of even the most pressing IT deployments.
This novel white glove Data-Center-as-a-Service model is proving to be indispensable to companies facing limited supply of fixed data center space and qualified headcount, enabling customers to accelerate and simplify the addition of IT capacity dramatically.
Quantum can actively manage every aspect of the deployment, including engineering, manufacturing, logistics, site preparation, permitting, installation, site monitoring, security, and break-fix escalation. Preventive maintenance is included, and Quantum has partners for customers to use for break-fix remediation tailored to specific response time and other needs of the customer.
