6 ways to reduce data center complexities

Data centers are becoming increasingly complex as organizations generate huge volumes of data, deploy strategic technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing etc.

Similarly, recently the concept of BYOD has taken a front seat in most of the organization, but as this new concept is integrated into the company's infrastructure, IT departments understand how complicated a data center has become.

With adoption of these upcoming technologies no doubt the efficiency of work has been increased but on other hand to handle these technologies is becoming difficult. These implementations bring about evolving challenges in managing critical data center environments.

The question which arises by every CIO - Are we equipped to manage multiple protocols under a single roof?

According to a new State of the Data Center survey, conducted by a security company, 79 percent of organizations are experiencing an increase in complexity in a data center. As businesses generate more intelligence and use new technologies, it affects the reliability of a storage space. This survey also highlights the challenges that many companies face as a result of storing sensitive information, whether it is on a cloud-based platform, tape or hard drive.

Steps to reduce complexity:

Organizations need to take necessary actions to reduce the complexity level of their data centers.

Primraly new technology needs to be accessed in accordance to its standardization and agility. The need for the hour is to build a consolidated infrastructure which should unify both the network protocol and server compute.

The holistic approach is to work on a virtual platform for multiple applications deployment on virtualization for the entire data center. The keys steps to be taken are as follows-

1. Design and implement a clear strategy to adapt the new technologies on a simplified standard architecture which should be scalable.

2. Try implementing the different network protocols in a unified architecture.

3. Create a consolidated storage setup on unified network for both file serving and databases.

4. Implement a strong systems management tool which can integrate within the heterogeneous infrastructure and give a single console management for the admin.

5. Provide a strong and reliable support and service protocol for day to day working of the data center either through in house capabilities or third party contract.

6. Adopt new solutions on data center virtualization including client interface through VDI or private cloud.