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24x7, global economy. At the same time, companies can realize major cost savings through data center right-sizings and consolidations. Merger/acquisition activities have created the need for broad-scale integration. In addition, governance is making greater demands on data centers in terms of compliance, archiving, data management and security. Lastly, to ensure disaster recovery and business continuity, todays data centers have to support recovery, back-up and redundant systems, as well as remote operations in different geographical locations.
The data center is the most expensive real estate a company owns and business success depends on data center reliability and capacity. Todays data centers represent a hugely complex and critical problem set, with a whole new generation of challenges to confront and only a handful of competent, acknowledged service providers for data centers are available.
The Result?
Usable, surplus data center space is now all but gone. Any remaining space must be redeveloped to meet growing needs, and greenfield data center build-out is on the rise.
Why Now?
Companies are starting to run IT like a business, and businesses are more IT dependent than ever before because of the transactional, Web-based,
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Underlying IT Infrastructure
Changing business needs, new application developments and IT infrastructure advances all happen too quickly for yesterdays data center to successfully manage and accommodate. In fact, the entire life cycle of the data center, the technology within it and the business it supports must be brought into synchronization. Over-building is cost prohibitive and building only to meet immediate needs doesnt account for future growth. Todays data center must be adaptive to the quickly changing demands of business and technology.
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