The New Enterprise Data Center

Overview

Rather than simply comprising a cost to do business, Information Technology (IT) should link with and complement business strategy. This requires an efficient, flexible and resilient infrastructure that is primed to anticipate and respond rapidly to shifting business requirements. These requirements have driven them to the evolution of a new data center architecture - one that allows for massive scalability and dynamic responsiveness while also providing an energy efficient and resilient infrastructure. This paper presents a technical overview of the new enterprise data center, including a description of its key characteristics, a description of the functions and capabilities of the underlying architecture and a description of an evolutionary approach to implementation through stages of adoption.