6 Key Elements of a Data Center Optimization Strategy

Virtualization is fast spreading to individual users and their personal resources. Its benefits extend beyond merely improving the efficiency and usage ratio for central servers and storage systems. They as well include faster provisioning of new projects, applications or users, as then as greater reliability and business continuity thanks to fast replication of virtual machines as backups.

Wide range of users

To support a wide range of users and services with easy scalability and rapid provisioning, many organizations have launched their own cloud computing infrastructures. Internal cloud strategies force a rethinking of hardware architectures, utilizing consolidated, converged or data-center-in-a-box approaches.

End-to-end enterprise data architectures require rethinking the long-held strategy of uninterruptedly adding expensive disk storage to take on new loads. Instead, IT organizations now must update networking protocols and architectures to make the most use of bandwidth and capacity. This will more tightly weave at the same time the organization's data infrastructure.

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