theartofservice

Despite all the processes and applications and publications related to running effective data centers, the underlining motivator for any data center lies in three important outputs: Availability, Capacity, and Security. Everything else about a data center has some role in ensuring that these three outputs of the data center are delivered. Go ahead and argue the point: but of all the operational concerns that can be found in a data center, if one of these three points are below standard or missing than the how environment is vulnerable.

Here’s why:

For any business that uses a computer system from a single laptop for a home business professional to hundreds to thousands of servers strung across the world for a large corporation, if the system is unavailable than no work can be done. The longer work is detained, the harder it is to recover. One goal of IT operations is ensure that the system(s) remain available at all times.

In our modern age, a tremendous amount of information is created, transferred, stored, categorized, shared, duplicated, and the like. In the end, this information and the way it is used will require attention to be placed on the capacity of data storage. As more data is sent from person to person, the capacity of the network also becomes an area to monitor. The more applications that a company uses creates capacity demand for storage and bandwidth. The lack of capacity simply translates into lost data and performance problems for most systems.

Of the three, security is the most pervasive requirement for most IT environments. If the data is available or can be stored properly, the data is no use to anyone if it is compromised. Lack of security can take away the availability and capacity of a good network or desktop..

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