September 20178 IN MY VIEWHow the Migration of Data Centers and Infrastructure Does & Doesn't Change ITRemember the tech days when the size and sophistication of your enterprise data center was a bragging right? For IT leaders of all industries at one time speaking of square footage, server counts, staff numbers, and cooling capabilities said something important about the power, security, and possibility of infrastructure and innovation capabilities. It was a center of corporate IT strength and capability. But then something happened. Someone or something took the center out of enterprise data centers. Who was it and how do you maintain and continue to improve your center of IT strength when infrastructure is transforming?Who DID It? The SuspectsThe first culprit in the enterprise data center's changing role is the CFO. More fairly, you would say that tighter tech budgets, rising tech costs, and the recruitment expenditure it takes to find and hire skilled data center talent are forcing CFOs and other c-suite leaders to question the high cost of owning and managing enterprise data centers. For most enterprises, the rapidly rising volume of data created, managed, and stored has been a data center wake up call, forcing business leaders, CFOs, COOs, CEOs, and CIOs alike, to find more efficient ways to manage and run IT infrastructure. That leads us to the second culprit, the cloud. Where at one time buying servers was the norm, enterprises today are saving costs and gaining computing power by renting services in the cloud. Although Gartner reported that the data center system segment BY ANNA FRAZZETTO, CHIEF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY OFFICER & SVP, HARVEY NASHWho Took the Center Out of Data Center?Anna Frazzetto
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