Why is it the Right Time to Build the Data Center of the Future

A contemporary data centre is made up of several subsystems. The use of power distribution, water systems, emergency backup, communications, security and surveillance, and a variety of other support systems simultaneously adds to the complexity.

Fremont  CA: As Internet traffic grows and businesses continue to digitalize, the infrastructure needed to enable the shift – from offline to online, on-premises to cloud – must evolve as well. While it is also known as the energy required for tomorrow's data centre would most certainly be comparable to that of a medium-sized city, other impending issues are giving IT executives nightmares.

A contemporary data centre is made up of several subsystems. The use of power distribution, water systems, emergency backup, communications, security and surveillance, and a variety of other support systems simultaneously adds to the complexity. Moreover, these subsystems must communicate and collaborate with one another to provide optimal performance and cost control.

The epidemic caused a worldwide awakening that the internet world is real, practical and the way forward for tomorrow. As a result, data centre clients' expectations are increasingly demanding as the emphasis shifts to the virtual world, from online collaboration, trade, and commerce to online supply chains and routing.

Few data centre issues may get addressed by implementing a single integrated management system that successfully bridges operations' industrial and digital sides.

• Downtime and outage

Downtime of a data centre or sections of it may be extremely harmful to consumers. One of the fundamental causes for this is a lack of asset management technologies that do not allow for the development of predictive maintenance models.

Because of a lack of real-time insight into industrial assets, data centre managers cannot allocate resources or perform preventive maintenance.

• Spiralling energy costs

Energy usage accounts for more than half of a modern data centre's operational costs. Controlling energy usage through asset monitoring can assist in lowering overall operating expenses right away. Utilities generally charge in slabs, with each succeeding slab having a higher rate. Controlling and keeping usage in the lower slabs might help minimize energy expenses by having analytics and real-time operating models for all subsystems and assets.

• Subsystem complexity

Infrastructures for computing, virtualization, and networking are all complicated and require management systems. The remainder of a data centre's support systems faces their own set of problems. Many specialized internal systems coexist while being siloed, such as Data Center Infrastructure Management Solutions, Building Management Systems, Building Automation Systems, and Building Energy Management Systems, to name a few.

Creating a unified operations centre is one method of integrating subsystem equipment and applications into a suitable, coherent management environment. A unified operation also makes it easier to operate numerous scattered data centres and to administer them remotely.