KBC recently finalised the construction of two new twin data centers in Hungary. This presentation will first give a short introduction on who KBC is, how this business case was born and will then focus on the technical design. The idea is to share the experiences that we've been building up since the start of this program in 2006

The way that datacenters are designed, engineered, constructed and operated has changed more in the past five years than it did in the prior 30 years combined. Those changes have been driven in large part by the growing use of standardization and modularization, which have results in huge gains in reliability, energy efficiency, construction costs, operational costs and more. Datacenter facilities that used to take years to build can now be done in just a few months, saving millions of dollars in the process. But those changes over the past five years are merely a prelude to a new round of innovation and advancement in the way raised-floor datacenters are designed and built.

The next 5-10 years will see modularization taken to a new level as it becomes common for datacenters to be built with architectures that employ prefabricated components manufactured in factory environments and shipped to facility sites. These datacenters will be largely pre-built and assembled rather than constructed from scratch, making it possible to have a new datacenter up and running in just a handful of weeks – faster than companies can even get their network up and running.

This presentation will discuss how this emerging trend represents an industrial revolution in the datacenter industry, bringing efficiencies, economies of scale and increased quality to datacenter facilities that have been previously impossible with traditional datacenter methodology. In this session, attendees will learn:

• What technological and engineering advancements are enabling this new approach to designing and building datacenters

• How pre-fabrication will be leveraged in new datacenter construction methodologies, and which key components will be the focus of pre-fabrication processes

• How this next level of modularization for raised floor space differs from containerized solutions and fully-prefabricated datacenter units

• What this new approach to datacenter design and construction means for energy efficiency and corporate green IT strategies

• What this new approach to datacenter design means for overall corporate IT strategies, datacenter timelines and the cost of datacenter expansions