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Data Centers /
Server Rooms
In our rapidly-evolving data-hungry IT environment, data center
management is becoming increasingly intensive and complex. In
tandem with the constant pressure to control costs at the same
time as increase efficiency and capacity, surges in demand for
services and availability have never been higher. Data center traffic
is increasing exponentially and projected to more than triple by
2020 from 2015 levels, driven primarily by our dependence on
the Internet to do business, to communicate, and to entertain.
The immense amount of data needed to support all of these
activities requires not only a growing number of data centers, but
also new kinds of data center builds and new ways to manage
them. In addition, green initiatives driven by power concerns and
the implications of size and scale, coupled with the adoption of
new technologies, are creating a confluence of often conflicting
forces that require new and innovative data center management
solutions.
Considerations for Solution
Implementers
As the IT infrastructure landscape gears up for a future of technological convergence,
increased digitization and computing demands are the key market forces that
affect the KVM switch and serial console markets in this area, with data center
growth driving sales for high port-count devices across sectors such as financial
services, web and social network hosting, government, e-commerce, telecommunications
and healthcare, in particular.
With this demand for more servers and more services come new opportunities for
solution providers to help businesses to align their data infrastructure with their
strategic needs. Because it is almost impossible to know exactly the future needs
of an enterprise, it is important that data center management solutions are flexible
in terms of scale and new technologies. Already, tech-savvy businesses are
demanding colocation providers that are able to evolve with them; no one wants
to miss a new opportunity because existing technologies can’t support new
demand.
In most cases, while computing demand is increasing faster than IT managers can
consolidate – and faster than budgets are increasing – an awareness of the evolution
of technology applications, and the evolution of the customers using the applications, is
essential to grasping how this will also start to redefine IT infrastructure, especially as
it fractures into the realms of cloud, data center and managed services.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution, and in this new era of opportunity, enterprise
level corporations require innovative and sustainable data center solutions that
allow their businesses to grow in an impactful way. ATEN’s wide range of data
center KVM, serial console and PDU solutions offer just that – convenient, flexible,
centralized remote access and management of IT devices in multiple data centers and
distributed branch/remote offices.
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