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Designing The Modern Data Center

Businesses are expanding, consolidating, and building modern new data centers to handle new computing demands.

By Darrell Dunn
InformationWeek

Apr 3, 2006 12:00 AM

Most companies have a data center, even if it's only a closet with a couple of servers. And most companies, including those that started out small, have watched as their data centers grew in size and complexity, consumed more electricity, threw off more heat, and required more cooling as they became vital hubs.
Now a number of businesses are rethinking their data center strategies. Some need to provide more space for servers, while others want to consolidate so they can simplify systems management and increase usage rates with tactics such as grid computing and virtualization.

Meeting data center challenges

June 5th, 2006
Server Virtualization

In a virtualized environment, more than one application can reside on a single physical server. More applications are also susceptible to any hardware failure that might occur on that single server.

Clustering services enable organizations to protect applications at the entire server level or at the granular guest operating system level. Physical-to-physical, virtual-to-virtual, physical-to-virtual, and virtual-to-physical failover capabilities ensure that any server whether physical or virtual is protected.

By leveraging one or more of today's innovative toolsets for storage management, clustering, disaster recovery testing, and configuration management, organizations can find relief from the challenges of meeting data center objectives while maximizing bottom-line results.
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