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Data Center Strategies
- By: John Rath
  July 27th, 2011
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Business climate changes, business models change, Information Technology certainly changes, and data centers change. Wait – data centers change? Yes, the view that the data center is just a room or facility that is a large capital investment and built every 10 to 15 years, has changed.

This doesn’t mean throw more money into it with greater frequency, it means approaching the data center in new ways and making intelligent decisions. The data center strategy is just as important as the IT strategy and the business strategy.

A data center strategy is anything but a panacea. It must address the exclusive requirements of the business and take special consideration for the growing complexity of choices available. Strategic planning is not an attempt to eliminate risk or to forecast what the data center will look like in 15 years, it is taking action to understand what risks to take and what paths will align with the business.

The Data Center Knowledge Guide to Data Center Strategies will explore three actions to take in order to formulate a pragmatic data center strategy:
New installments of The Guide to Data Center Strategies will be posted in coming days. Bookmark this page to access the entire series.

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About John Rath

John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management.

Data Center Strategies About To Change | Web Discoveries

Posted August 11th, 2011

[...] The data center sector has changed so much in recent months that long-held strategies and ideas about how data centers function and how they should be built are beginning to disappear. Chief among the diminishing perceptions is the thought that the data center is simply a major investment that must be updated every decade or so, Data Center Knowledge reports. [...]