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the availability of these modern data
centres to ensure Always-On services.
The applications are still
important
While all of these shifts in the data
centre are happening at the same
time, one thing hasn’t changed: the
application is still what is most important.
In fact, the data centre is nothing
without the applications it provides. The
availability requirements today extend
to the applications and in part due to
mobilisation and constant access; but
also how businesses truly run today.
Gone are the days where key business
decision makers didn’t need to consult
their key systems to make strategic
decisions. These decisions are all powered
by applications in the data centre. But
what happens when something goes
awry with the applications?
WHILE ALL OF THESE
SHIFTS IN THE
DATA CENTRE ARE
HAPPENING AT THE
SAME TIME, ONE THING
HASN’T CHANGED:
THE APPLICATION IS
STILL WHAT IS MOST
IMPORTANT
through them, such as healthcare. The
business cycle has a global scope, and
it’s no longer five days a week, eight
hours a day.
Internet of Things and Big Data
Combined together, IoT and Big Data
represent a massive data lifecycle that,
over time, becomes a self-running engine.
The huge amount of data created by IoT
is fed into Big Data’s compound to be
analysed and warehoused, and eventually
fed out back into IoT. To sustain this data
lifecycle, a modern data centre needs to
be built.
As the modern data centre typically
leverages core technologies including
virtualisation, storage and cloud, the next
crucial consideration would be ensuring
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INTELLIGENTCIO
The challenge facing data centre
professionals today is to ensure that the
applications are available; not just the
infrastructure. But today businesses want
more; they want to avoid issues before
they happen. That’s a pretty tall order,
that is one of the benefits that data
centre availability can bring.
With technology outages now making
front-page news, minimising downtime
and data loss is critical to the overall
health of organisations. Data and services
will evolve both on premises and in the
cloud, and organisations have to think
about how to better protect their data
on both fronts. Tool selection will become
critical as organisations attempt to
bridge the availability gap. This is the gap
between being Always-On and the cost
and complexity required to be so.
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