Five Ways to Control Your Cloud Spend in 2023 According to a recent Gartner study, businesses spent two to three times as much on cloud computing than they initially anticipated. Why is this the case, and how can businesses better manage costs? Pay-as-you-go models of IT budget forecasting rely on ongoing monitoring and evaluations rather …
The enterprise data center is vital to the long-term success of the business. While it is often behind the scenes, the data center directly or indirectly affects nearly all departments, teams, and customers in some way. A well-designed, well-built, and well-maintained data center ensures an enterprise can achieve its strategic objectives. But if you’ve ever …
What Is Engineer, Furnish, and Install, and When Do Enterprises Need It? Read Blog
Unplanned downtime is a serious challenge for enterprises. While many outages last only a few minutes and have a limited impact on performance, major outages can disrupt operations and result in significant and lasting consequences. When choosing a data center provider, enterprises must consider factors such as performance and scalability, physical security and access, proximity …
Resiliency and Fault Tolerance – What Do Enterprises Need From the Data Center? Read Blog
The past decade has seen the rise of the cloud. As enterprises re-evaluate the role of their on-premises or wholesale colocation data centers, many are decommissioning, consolidating, or migrating their existing infrastructure to new environments. Attracted by the promises of lower costs, increased flexibility, enhanced security, and the ability to scale resources as needed, enterprises …
Migrating the Data Center to the Cloud (or Back Again) – What Enterprises Need to Know Read Blog
Technology is vital to the day-to-day success of nearly all organizations. Enterprises rely on the applications, services, and data contained in the data center, while new technologies and performance requirements are driving organizations to evaluate how their IT environments move them closer to their business goals. However, a shortage of skilled and experienced IT talent …
Getting the Most Out of Your IT Services Partner on Your Next Data Center Project Read Blog
As with any large organizational change initiative, decommissioning an enterprise data center requires input from across departments, functional areas, and levels of seniority. Unfortunately, many enterprises tend to underestimate the full size, scope, and scale of the project. They may skip key phases during the planning stage of the process and jump straight into the …
Improving Visibility Between Teams When Decommissioning an Enterprise Data Center Read Blog
Today’s enterprises depend heavily on the applications, services, and data contained within the data center. But at some point, there will come a time when an enterprise needs to re-evaluate its existing technology, consolidate IT infrastructure, or migrate to a new site. In these cases, existing data centers, whether on-premises or in co-location facilities, may …
Maximizing Asset Value Recovery to Offset the Cost of Decommissioning a Data Center Read Blog
Today’s enterprises are collecting, storing, and using more data than ever before. A 2022 IDG Research survey found that, on average, data volumes are growing by 63 percent per month across organizations. No matter the size of the enterprise, the threat of data leaks and breaches of sensitive information are among the top priorities for …
Decommissioning an enterprise data center is a large and complex project that requires hundreds of hours of effort and specialized expertise. IT departments are responsible for migrating applications and workloads, securing sensitive data, and physically removing IT assets from existing facilities, often within tight schedules and specified budgets. Once the assets are removed, however, enterprises …
Reduce E-waste and Maximize Asset Value Recovery When Decommissioning a Data Center Read Blog
Enterprise IT departments must ensure that technology drives the business toward its strategic objectives. Within this larger goal, the enterprise data center is just one of the many areas that IT departments are responsible for, but it has a significant impact on long-term performance and results.
