Data Center Upgrade—The Backbone of the Business

Companies hope to get the same service from their data centers as they did years ago. However, Puneet Goyal points out that there are many obstacles to achieving that length of service. For example:

• some key components that data centers rely on are not designed to last that long

• rapidly changing data processing requirements demand that data centers remain flexible and support greater rack densities

• massive data growth, tough economic conditions, and physical data center limitations (power, heat, and space) exert extreme pressure  on IT infrastructures

To keep up with never-ending technology changes, organizations with aging data centers (10 years or older) should consider modernizing those facilities. Degraded data centers are more prone to local disasters, equipment failures, disk errors, inefficiency, poor output, greater administrative and managerial overhead, heating/cooling issues, and lower speed.

In his Knowledge Sharing article, Puneet discusses ways to take cost, complexity, and associated business risk out of the data center without sacrificing service levels.

This article will be useful for solution architects and analytics professionals who deliver assessments for strategic and tactical development of IT infrastructure, as well as service delivery managers who need operating efficiency to improve service delivery.

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