The Road to Market Survival – Data Center Management

Posted by Harleen Kaur
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Apr 30, 2016
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Data centers are one of the many utmost important factors that are needed to be managed and maintained for a company's reputation in the market and thus no sacrifices can be done for the same.

The rapid growth in the IT industry has made it mandatory for all the players to remain up to date and provide the best in class services to stay at the top and thus data center management is no foreign word. The surge in the development of the industry and parallel growth of the market are the sole reasons that have created the stir and therefore data center services have a major role to play. Although this is a relatively young term, the emerging class of physical IT infrastructure solutions has created an enormous acceptance already.

The trend has created numerous service providers small and big. Irrespective of the size of the organisation providing the services, what is important is to check the data center services being provided by them.

Before a sneak peek on the services essential for survival, a major question that rings a bell is what is it really all about.

  1. Enterprise - Data center solutions are not limited to a set of people but are built on larger scale and are in the real sense, solutions for the entire enterprise.

  2. Management - Mere monitoring of data gives nothing but a collection if data which simply adds to the stack. Managing takes deriving context rich information about the interrelationships between the assets that allow users to track all every device on every track.

  3. Power - It adds value to the system and makes an organisation more powerful. With time, the systems have evolved and have helped 0companies stay ahead of the game.

As a result, these data center services have changed the way we see the IT ecosystem.

Below, we enlist some of the very critical service aspects that you can’t miss out on when looking for data center services

  • Data center design and build services - Designing a data center from scratch or revamping the already built data center according to market and industry standards.

  • Data center consolidation and migration - Creating fewer data centers and incorporating all the required services while adopting the best practices for migrating

  • Managed services - Optimizing services such as servers, storage and backup

  • Server optimization and integration to increase utility

  • Storage optimization and integration

  • Business continuity and recovery services

Data center virtualization is a thing of today and thus more and more companies are adopting it. To compete in the present scenario, it is not only important but vital for survival.

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