How to Ensure Your Data Center is Future-Proof
July 02, 2020
In the past, the core priniciple of a data center was to store, process and share data centrally. More recently, there has been a shift toward a more flexible and decentralized approach to data center solutions.
In a new article published in Intelligent Data Centres, Issue 15, Jon Barker, Chatsworth Products' (CPI) European Technical Manager explains:
- How and why the demand on data centers has changed
- The impact this change has on infrastructure management
- Why organizations need to ensure their data centers can support emerging technologies
- How an integrated solution helps simplify white space management
- Regional trends when it comes to data center requirement
- How organizations can ensure their data centers are future-proof
In the blog today, we'll focus on a few of these and come back in a couple of weeks to tackle the others. We'll also provide a link to the full article that you can access any time.
How and why has the demand on data centers changed?
The demand on data centers continues to change as shared space becomes the new normal and more organizations adopt cloud services as par tof the IT operational strategy. Data centers play an integral role in the migration towards hybrid environments as multi-cloud solutions continue to grow year-on-year.
With it, the services provided by data centers need to be flexible and adaptable. The sheer growth in data collected is also driving huge capacity requirements and this will only increase as the development and adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) continues through many markets.
What is the impact of this change on infrastructure management?
The complexity of hybrid and multi-cloud environments presents many challenges in securing and managing the resulting infrastructures. In many cases, this complexity can no longer be managed by existing manual processes but instead will be addressed with the adoption of automated management tools, with emerging AI-driven cloud service technologies also becoming more prevalent.
Why do organizations need to ensure their data center can support emerging technologies and how do you support them with this?
An increasing number of organizations no longer own their own data centers or at least part of the data center resource they utilize is a third-party owned multi-tenant data center (MTDC). Therefore, ensuring that they have access to the facilities and services that can support the emerging needs of their business is an important decision.
CPI designs and manufactures infrastructure solutions that protect and power the technology investment of our customers and the service providers who support them.
To learn more about these products and solutions, read the full article.
Posted by Brittany Mangan, Digital Content Specialist at 7/2/2020 1:29:59 PM