| Data Centers provide large organizations with | | | | demands of users to have the information at their |
| information availability and professional recovery | | | | disposal at any given time. The demand for immediate |
| services. They are fast becoming what organizations | | | | information means that all centers need to guarantee |
| are heavily depending on as complicated technical | | | | that system-critical information can be recovered |
| requirements continue to grow. These huge | | | | easily and that systems and specific applications |
| complexes are held accountable for maintaining | | | | related to the data are readily available. Reducing or |
| valuable assets of organizations, providing a highly | | | | eliminating the downtime is another key objective and |
| available interface and ensuring a company's assets | | | | all centers must locate and search for ways to |
| are always accessible upon demand of the customer. | | | | accomplish this goal within their cost limits. This burden |
| They also provide large organizations with protection | | | | inevitably falls upon the data center manager as he |
| of assets from damage or unexpected catastrophes. | | | | alone is responsible for proper data center |
| For this reason, data center managers face many | | | | management. |
| challenges, as they are called upon to deliver high | | | | Because of the increased demand from its customers, |
| levels of service and to deliver increasing storage | | | | proper management has now become a significant |
| requirements to busy organizations. As pressures | | | | part of the overall IT strategy. Customers include |
| continue to grow from a marked increase in service | | | | non-profit organizations, government entities and large |
| and from high demands for quality information | | | | corporations. Smart IT managers are concentrating |
| processing, pressure on the larger warehouses is | | | | their efforts on optimizing their existing data center |
| becoming extremely intense. | | | | management abilities. A manager can absorb |
| One of the main reasons for this is due to an | | | | information needs without adding additional staff or |
| increased cost for data center management, where | | | | cutting important services. Furthermore, they can |
| the data center manager must monitor and provide | | | | handle a variety of environments in a coordinated way |
| the staffing requirements needed to oversee them. If | | | | and support new business growth that drives new |
| data and services are not readily available to a | | | | informational demands. This is in sharp contrast to the |
| business, the business could suffer catastrophic | | | | old way of doing business that included spending |
| damages. This would inevitably cause irrefutable | | | | colossal amounts of money by adding new storage |
| damage on a grand scale. This holds true for systems | | | | facilities and staff facilities. |
| that store valuable information, as well as the | | | | Successful data center management involves a |
| applications which enable a user to interact with any | | | | number of factors and has become the lifeblood of |
| given amount of data. A main objective is to join | | | | businesses today. Proper management and |
| together these systems along with the application and | | | | optimization is one of the keys to a successful service |
| availability requirements. Since it can be very difficult to | | | | and the major factors driving large organizations |
| predict just exactly when certain information is | | | | toward this goal. |
| required, centers are impelled by the increasing | | | | |