March 28, 2012 - While Facebook and Google may have the luxury to experiment with data center designs cooled by desert air or floating out at sea, chances are, you can’t gamble your IT availability on an experimental architecture deployed on an ocean liner. Flashy data center designs and energy efficiency claims may garner plenty of industry press, but they also make it difficult for data center managers to identify large data center infrastructure designs and solutions that are reliable, cost-effective, easy to manage and scalable.