Bugs Baer was right.

The newspaper writer and cartoonist once defined a good neighbor as “a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence but doesn’t climb over it.”

If your Data Centers are like most, they have many neighbors – er, tenants – in them.  Some want open access, so they can quickly update applications and hardware.  Others want a highly-restricted environment, where changes are few and far between.  Still others want operational policies somewhere in between.

How, then, to construct a Data Center so everyone remains good neighbors?  That is, meeting everyone’s particular operational needs while ensuring that no tenant activities – or restrictions – ever impact those around them?

Below, I suggest some design considerations when building a multi-tenant Data Center.

What else do you think someone should consider when hosting very different clients in their Data Center?

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