Global Entertainment Company

A Fortune 500 entertainment company with global operations retained PlanNet to perform a strategy for its production data center.  Significant anticipated growth in computing and storage requirements, typical of many media companies was a critical driver of the project.  Additionally, a primary objective of the initiative was to lower total operating expense predicated primarily by project energy cost increases at the company's current operations. 

 PlanNet assessed build, buy and co-location scenarios across multiple Western U.S. markets and determined the maximum cost benefit would be realized by delaying migration to co-location by two years.  The recommendation incorporated a plan to manage short-term growth to stay within the current data center capacity through virtualization and contain operating expense by lowering the PUE through cooling optimization techniques.