As technology continues
to evolve, so too does
the infrastructure that
supports it. Jon Barker,
Technical Manager,
Chatsworth Products
(CPI), talks us through the
new demands on modern
data centres and explains
how CPI solutions are
helping organisations to
meet these requirements.
adopt cloud services as part of their IT
operational strategy. Data centres play
an integral role in the migration towards
hybrid environments as multi-cloud
solutions continue to grow year-on-year.
With it, the services provided by
data centres need to be flexible and
adaptable. The sheer growth in data
collected is also driving huge capacity
requirements and this will only increase
as the development and adoption of
the Internet of Things (IoT) continues
through many market sectors.
What is the impact of this change
on infrastructure management?
The complexity of hybrid and multicloud
environments presents many
challenges in securing and managing
the resulting infrastructures. In many
cases, this complexity can no longer
be managed by existing manual
How and why has the demand on
data centres changed?
In the past, the core principle of a data
centre was to store, process and share
data centrally. More recently however,
there has been a shift towards a more
flexible and decentralised approach to
data centre solutions as organisations aim
to support their business operations more
cost effectively.
The demand on data centres continues
to change as shared space becomes
the new normal and more organisations
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