Modernization. Paradigm shift. Optimization. These words are as relevant to data centers as they are to the evolving business landscape. So, how has modernization affected the data centers? What is the difference between data center modernization and data center consolidation?…
In the pre-digital age, the difficulty in running any business, small or large, was to keep track of the information generated by the business using a large number of physical records and files. With the advent of computers and digital…
Suppose there are 4,000 servers in a data center for Company ABC. These servers may have been installed at different times, and not together, in the same month or week. A typical server has a maintenance cost of nearly $2,000…
Your organization might have multiple data centers scattered all around the country. Some of them may be running out of cooling and powering needs, some are bringing high energy costs, and others are unable to expand due to limited or…
The faltering economy in 2010 and 2011, the increasing demand for IT as a service, and the incredible pressure to keep costs down has lead to these overarching trends in data centers: Consolidated data centers The concept of multiple data…
