You need more resources, but you’ve reached capacity. You need better performance, but your infrastructure can’t handle another device. To grow, your data center must have room to scale, and it must be reliable.
By using the right combination of technologies to simplify and automate your processes, you can avoid mistakes, achieve stability, become operationally efficient, and be predictable.
Everything in the data center fabric focuses on the network, computing, storage, management, and how to continue operating when things go wrong.
Artificial intelligence and systems integrations have contributed to the rapid increase in computational needs from applications that require a new infrastructure approach. Because the distance from a traditional data center to the subscriber is too great, performance is being squeezed lower. So, the need to drive a better experience is bringing server resources closer to the subscriber. The result is an exponential increase in edge compute.
Your network relies on highly available and scalable data center resources. Billing, operations platforms, and management require 3 main things:
To take advantage of your compute and storage resources, the network interconnect with your data center resources must be running on all cylinders.
Automation platforms are being used more often to create a low-touch, secure environment where the data center network is protected from user errors. In a hosted data center, one little mistake can take down everything. Implementation simplicity and service administration simplification are both powered by intelligent orchestration to decrease the likelihood of a mistake.
It’s easy to forget every service, component, and application your data center touches. It’s supporting resources and initiatives through automated and manual processes, whether it’s private cloud, public cloud, or hybrid.
Step back and see every thread from a panoptic view to truly optimize your data center and make it work for you.
Traditional infrastructure gives you more flexibility as you build your platform. Hyperconverged infrastructure is unified with advanced management and automation. Define how much control your company wants to have over technology implementation and what your preference is.
Creating a business continuity plan (BCP) is critical for any business. During unexpected events, it’s important to know your infrastructure will support your services and business needs. Ongoing planning and validation of your DR plan will keep you and your network prepared for any scenario.
The data center interconnect is a high throughput, high availability, and low latency interconnect between data centers. Simply put, DCI connects data centers together.
From basic, private connectivity to high performance, private network extensions, there is a diverse set of SD-WAN technologies. By utilizing multiple types of networks to build a unified, private network, you will deliver the performance you and your subscribers require.
The critical resources housed in your data center need to be available for your network to operate. Protecting those resources from DDoS attacks and cyber threats ensures your subscribers can utilize your services and applications.
3-steps will get you closer to an optimized network that not only improves your visibility but reduces your costs.
Talk it out! Meet up with an expert who understands your industry, your pain points, and knows the next steps to take toward achieving success.
Let’s do this! Work to improve, optimize, and enhance network health with a sound plan.
Life just got much easier. Reduced stress and increased visibility of your network will create a productive, exciting environment for your employees and technicians.
Slow servers and bad response times are symptoms of an overcrowded data center. For availability of applications and infrastructure, your network needs to have room to breathe—to expand and contract.
Every data center is unique, but every data center can be optimized.