In today’s evolving business landscape, executives are looking to technology to help transform their operations, enabling them to be more agile and efficient.
Information technology and critical facilities department managers must constantly balance the key objectives of continuous availability and minimal cost in managing the critical assets of corporate data centers. Industry data consistently demonstrates the risk of downtime is equally present all days of the week, at all hours.
In today’s data center environment, managers are tasked with packing maximum computing power into the smallest possible footprint, or in many cases, the existing (read: undersized) footprint.
From severe weather to cybercrime, disasters can happen to any data center at any time, causing power outages and headaches for information technology (IT) managers.
As data center configurations and applications require more computing power, managers are looking at new ways to address thermal management challenges.
By virtue of its name, starting from the days of the mainframe, we traditionally tend to think of the “data center” as the central point for the data processing, storage, as well as the nexus of the data network.