Article: Data Center design: Form follows function.

Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff)

American architect Louis Sullivan, the father of modernism, is widely credited with the key axiom of 20th century modern architecture: "Form follows function." That adage is also vital to data center design.

Sullivan put the axiom to work in 1891 in St. Louis with the design of one of the world's first skyscrapers, The Wainwright Building, and more than 110 years later MasterCard Worldwide employed Sullivan's axiom in the design of its data center in suburban St. Louis.

Indeed, when planning to update or construct a data center, functional requirements determine the design, old ideas mesh with new and technological advances ...

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