Looking for a Data Center RFP Template? Here is one at CyrusOne website

If you are looking for a Data Center RFP template, there is one you can download from CyrusOne website.

 

 
 
 
 
 

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Data Center Colocation RFP: 
Request for Proposal Template

Choosing a data center facility for colocation can be a daunting task even for the most well-informed buyer.

This Data Center RFP template has been developed using the collective experience of industry experts who have spent years helping prospects scope out data center solutions, finalize contracts, and confirm the use of industry best practices.

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Download this Data Center RFP Template to ensure you're asking the right questions for your colocation needs

A data center RFP, or Request for Proposal, is a precise document used to vet potential data center providers on your company's specific requirements.  Using this Data Center RFP template enables you to edit or delete sections from the template to reflect your organization's pre-determined criteria and customize it to specific business needs.

Selecting the right data center provider is critical step toward successfully outsourcing some of your IT infrastructure needs.

This RFP template is designed to help, and includes the following:

  • Data Center Provider Overview – understand what key company information to analyze to get experience and stability
  • Building/Property – determine how to properly gather all the needed technical and design specs on the different facilities
  • Data Center Space – gather key measures for current and future needs
  • Electrical & Cooling Specifications – understand key specs to gather to properly plan for power densities, power density, redundancies, configurations, cooling output and more detection
  • Network Services – avoid being locked into expensive connectivity agreements with little flexibility around carriers
  • Data Center Systems/Personnel – ask the key questions on environmental and security monitoring systems and procedures
  • Risk Overview – get critical information about the facilities location, history, and access
  • Availability Review – determine if the data center can scale as your business grows
  • Professional Services – uncover key partnerships and services you may need in the future
  • Pricing and Terms – understand key lease differences and the hidden costs they contain

 

With batteries being hot for Solar, seems like the Data Center industry could benefit

Batteries are common in so many data centers, and technology has not changed that much.  With Solar’s growth, it looks like batteries are the new hot thing.  Gigaom’s Katie Fehrenbacher posts on a SF solar trade show.

At a big solar show, batteries take center stage

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LG's battery at Intersolar, Image courtesy of Gigaom
photo: Image courtesy of Gigaom.
SUMMARY:

While solar companies descend on San Francisco this week, it’s the batteries that everyone’s talking about.

How big will this get?

But one entrepreneur’s attention doesn’t make a market. Energy storage has its own momentum. The entire energy storage market is predicted to explode over the next five years, due to a combination in the growth of solar, state mandates (like the one in California) that are pushing storage, and more unpredictable weather that can cause blackouts and require backup storage systems.

Research firm IHS predicts that the energy storage market (which includes batteries but also other storage technologies) will grow from a small base of 0.34 GW installed in 2013 to an annual installation size of 6 GW in 2017 and over 40 GW by 2022. The U.S. is supposed to be the largest market in the world, followed by Germany and Japan.

When making an introduction do you ask for permission?

When someone asks to meet one of your friends, do you fire off an e-mail right away with both parties on it or do you contact your friend and ask for permission to introduce you to a person?  It kind of depends on the circumstances.  Where things get most sensitive is one party could be a buyer and the other is a seller.  I would say you definitely want to get permission from both parties to connect before you make an introduction.

A Drone's view, seeing Fireworks from an immersive view

This Fireworks video has gone viral with over 7 mil views.  Note this is not a 4th of July posting as it went up on May 13, 2014.

One of the cool features of the DSLRPro Drones is a FLIR option.

Cameras are typically not allowed in a data center, but with the growth in drones it seems like a good idea to try to integrate into operations.

 

 

Death of the Tradeshow, transitioning from shallow to deep relationships

One of my LinkedIn connections, Dave Mendlen has a post on why the tradeshow is dead.

Senior Technology Marketing Leader/CMO, Former Microsoft Executive, Speechwriter for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer

I know David from working on speeches for Bill and Steve and when David moved to Visual Studio Marketing.  David’s post on the death of the tradeshow makes excellent points that I am sure many of you will nod your head.

The next time you are at one of those trade shows, watch the engagement model. You will see that almost every customer spends less than a minute at any given booth. They pick up literature, scan their badge to enter the raffle and maybe ask a question or two. In exchange what do you get?

An unqualified lead. I'd argue that the customer likely was interested in winning a free iPad or whatever it is you were raffling off and is not a good, qualified lead. So in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in marketing spend you now have a list of hundreds of unqualified leads - the sales team will call them garbage and they are not wrong.

We’ll see if other marketing companies try to change.

It's time to try a different approach to engage customers. This surface connection to customers is a bad use of marketing dollars and doesn't move the needle.

It's time to drive deeper conversations with customers.

There are exceptions to this, but is it worth the huge marketing spend?  

There are a number of ways to get closer, deeper conversations. It's time to try something different.