Data center and consulting firm Concergent is planning to spin off a micro data center company to be called MDC-Anywhere, according to reports.

The new firm came about because Wichita-based Concergent is running out of space in its own data center, and decided to take data centers to its clients, according to the Wichita Business Journal. Concergent offers co-location in its data center, as well as consultancy up to full IT outsourcing, and will now spin up the MDC-Anywhere business with cash input from investors.

Concergent completed a custom project for a client, which involved adding a lot more equipment to its own data center, located at its head office on North Waco. This left the company with not very much room, but more potential data center business, but it did not want to take the risk of building a new and larger space, and then finding clients for it, the CEO, Dan Reisig told the Journal.

Spec space is risky
"We don't want to build any spec space," said Reisig. Instead, Concergent's 22 staff will work for both outfits, serving Concergent's customers, and building micro data centers for others under the MDC-Anywhere banner.

MDC-Anywhere aims to serve relatively large clients with specific storage requirements, who also want their systems local so they can get physical access to them. They get a space that is right for their needs, and if appropriate MDC-Anywhyere will scale it so that some of the space can be sold to others. Reisig says: "This changes the model a lot".

MDC-Anywhere already has a project starting in Oklahoma City, the report says, and it will use modular data centers, which can cost 14 percent less than building a traditional bricks-and-mortar data center, according to DCD Intelligence research. It seems possible these may be from Dell, which is listed as Concergent's major partner).

At present MDC-Anywhere appears not to formally exist, as it is not mentioned on Concergent's site. The name stands for Microi Data Center, which is more straight-forward than the derivation of its parent's moniker: "Concergent" apparently comes from a combination of "concierge" and "urgent".