The Southeastern U.S. is known for its mild climate, comforting down-home cuisine, and southern hospitality. Recently, however, this region has been expanding its repertoire to encompass a new facet of the technological future: data centers.

As operations move their compute load from large data centers to edge locations, organizations must adjust their network management processes to continue delivering the always-on uptime that customers have come to expect. To do so, they must invest in hybrid solutions.

The deployment of 5G and the improvements it delivers in the areas of data throughput, edge computing, ultra-low latency, and efficiency are imminent.

Every IT team is tasked with developing a data center strategy that provides monitoring and insights across several aspects of its data center including temperature, airflow, humidity, power consumption, and security.

Data centers and IT management are up against some significant industry changes at the moment.

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The average cost of a data center outage is just over $740,000, according to a 2016 Ponemon Institute Report, and the figure continues to rise each year.

Many enterprises consider data center operations as a necessary evil.

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Global connectivity, which is now so central to all our lives, is reliant on the power of data centers.