An explosion in IT demand has put mounting pressure on datacenter capacity, making it difficult for CIOs to respond to business needs while budgets remain mostly flat. As capacity demands become increasingly unpredictable it is harder to keep up with rapid changes in technology and emerging models such as cloud computing. The challenge is to build a data center that will be functional and cost-effective to operate for 10 to 20 years— while information technology changes every two to three years.

 

The business requirements for designing a data center have remained fairly consistent around availability (high), capacity (high) and capital cost (low). But these three requirements alone are no longer sufficient. Organizations also need to provide the scalability to upgrade technology and capacity over time and the flexibility to support new technology and computing models while minimizing both capital and operational costs.

 

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