For organizations trying to get a better handle on their data so they can see how it affects their business outcomes, the digital age has accelerated the need for modernizing the data centers. IT is constantly under immense pressure to improve, scale, consolidate, and optimize applications to meet the needs of their end-users. A modern data architecture enables businesses to consume and interpret information so they can anticipate market changes and make strategic decisions, which begs the question: is your data center suitable for meeting the digital needs of your organization? Check out these three key factors that will influence the decision to adopt a modern strategy to help you remain competitive.
1. Costs
We all know cost is a factor–who doesn’t want to save money, especially during unpredictable times? Modernizing your data center can create cost savings. Consolidating underutilized assets, improving cooling, expanding UPS infrastructure, utilizing high-density points of delivery (PODs), and upping preventive maintenance practices can often be done within tight budgets. Converged technologies that improve the efficiency of your data center can also yield a major reduction of your operational costs.
2. Storage, physical space and the rise of unstructured data
The digital world is no longer a trend–it is the current landscape due to the rise of unstructured data. This can havea major impact in modernizing your data center because it brings up not only storage challenges, but the challenges of processing the plethora of data types. An IT organization’s data center must be more agile, scalable and responsive than ever before to address the exponential growth of data in the digital age. Greater scalability means the ability to manage the exponential growth of data being created by the Internet of Things (IoT), videos, photos, files and apps. The flexibility to add more storage space to your system brings added value to handling your diverse workloads, and ensures that your infrastructure can endure the data requirements of the future.
3. Security and reliability
Companies are turning to modernization for providing additional security to the obvious risks of downtime resulting from aging infrastructure. Cloud solutions, which are included in data center modernization, act as a backup for data that is lost because of damaged or compromised equipment. Also, modern data centers can lead to improved reliability of and connectivity for company growth. A modern data center has built‐in security to help you protect data, applications and infrastructure so you can meet compliance requirements. According to IDC, consistent data availability and recovery is a key component for businesses looking to modernize their infrastructure.
Delivering innovation
Through data center modernization, departments can quickly and easily scale to meet the ever-evolving demands of business, and partner with key stakeholders throughout their organization to get applications and products to market faster. If you are interested in transforming your operations so that you can have a competitive edge in the marketplace and meet the ever-changing needs of your business, contact one of our digital infrastructure experts today. Our team can help you implement, design, secure and manage your IT infrastructure to ensure you are always on the right track.
