A decade ago, enterprise data center managers were looking at infrastructure requirements to prepare for a migration from 1 to 10 Gigabit Ethernet for server connections and 10G to 40G/100G for uplinks...
Some of the figures people quote for the reliability of their IT systems look ludicrously minimal, very often through misunderstanding terminology or simply cheating.
It’s only the VMs running applications and services that ultimately generate revenue for the operator: no one gets paid for just switching network traffic.
Data center leaders must work to increase capacity within the same building footprint without overheating or scheduling downtime, which is not a simple task.