Today's data centre has little in common with the legacy architectures of the past. The modern data centre uses virtualisation and hyper-converged infrastructures, and is usually connected to the cloud.
Modern computing centres need to be more flexible and more powerful for the future. Purchasing additional servers and storage is not a long-term solution, and only causes a company's data centre to become larger, more complex, and more expensive. Simple scalability is extremely important to react to unforeseen changes in the market. What would you do if a million users suddenly wanted to access your service, but it was designed to handle only moderate traffic?
Today, companies are foregoing their own computing centres, and moving their entire IT services to the cloud. Others are maintaining critical business data in an on-premises environment, while moving selected workloads to the cloud (hybrid cloud).
There are multiple options for ensuring your computing centre is ready for the future. But one thing is certain: we need to overcome old ways of thinking. Often, the modern data centre may not be located in a company's own facility. The IT infrastructure is hybrid, and can be distributed around the world.
The best thing about modern data centres is that they offer outstanding security and highly innovative security tools to protect your valuable data.
