The data centre has assumed a new, more prominent role as a strategic asset within the organisation. Increasing capacity demands and the pressure to support the "always-on" digital business are forcing data centres to adapt, evolve, and respond at an increasingly accelerated rate. Cloud, mobility, IOT, big data - these and other interrelated trends are putting enormous pressure on the modern data centre. To keep pace, today's physical infrastructure has become vastly more complex, interconnected, and performance-driven than a decade ago.
To help manage this evolving environment, new ways of thinking about and valuing infrastructure have emerged. Designers now think of physical elements such as power, space, processing, cooling, and network connectivity as variables that can be "adjusted" to meet their specific performance goals while containing costs. Meanwhile, software-based data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions and automated infrastructure management (AIM) tools, now enable IT and facilities executives to manage their data centres more holistically.
In this new paradigm, opportunities to boost performance and profitability by increasing efficiency are everywhere; not just in power and cooling, but in capacity planning, asset management, scalability, space utilisation (e.g. density), and more.
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