Why the Modern Data Centre is the Bedrock for Innovation

When you design and build your next data centre, it’s important to use modern power architecture and monitoring technology. Designing with redundancies that allow you to use power from one source while another is repaired will ensure you don’t lose any data.

You should also monitor temperature, humidity and cooling capacity so you know when your infrastructure needs maintenance or repairs. This is critical when it comes to security: having software alerting you when there are any heat spikes in certain areas of your data centre – even if there's no immediate concern – is an efficient way to prevent physical theft before it happens.

Building an adaptive, intelligent data centre on a common platform is crucial as your business grows and additional data centres come online at the edge. CDW can help you create an APC edge computing solution that brings data centre-like resiliency to any IT environment. Visit CDW.ca/APC to learn more.

Building the foundations of your IT operations on a solid, secure foundation is key to not only reducing the burden of managing your own data centre, but also allows for cost optimization as well as agility when scaling beyond the core out to the edge or even to other clouds in a hybrid model.

If you have a solid understanding of what you need from a cloud environment and focus on making those features work for you, you’ll create something that not only meets your needs now but can adapt in order to meet changing needs later.

Building a private cloud is a unique opportunity to provide a more streamlined and innovative approach to delivering technology to your business. And while there may be industry standards to follow, it makes sense to use an architecture that reflects your business needs and workflow rather than trying to shoehorn it into an off-the-shelf model.

Solutions must be simple and fast while maintaining a secure environment that allows flexibility with IT resources, which means only forward-thinking technologies can create the operational agility that today's modern enterprise demands. Dell EMC solutions can help enable organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data centres.

While cloud computing has facilitated the creation of a lot of great technology, more and more businesses are looking to repatriate their workloads back into their own on-premise data centre for a variety of reasons.

However, businesses have grown to like the OPEX model that cloud providers use for billing vs. the traditional CAPEX model. IT organizations are also looking at their data centres differently – not just from a cost perspective but how they consume technology.

HPE Greenlake, for example, provides a cloud-like “pay as you grow” consumption model for on-premises data centres, allowing businesses the flexibility to scale up and down effortlessly.

Building the foundations to innovate in today’s modern data centre means building with the future in mind. That means not only addressing today’s needs, but also providing a high level of operational excellence as your business grows.

It is important to not think of the data centre as a single location, as we're now seeing a drive towards edge computing in various industries. The idea is that any data that doesn't need to be processed at the data centre level can be handled at the edge of the network, saving on costs without sacrificing speed or data integrity.

However, securing your edge locations from failure can become an overwhelming challenge. Not only are data centres prone to power issues, they can also be subject to a number of other kinds of failures or interruptions that can bring production down.

An easy way to build a modern data centre is to use automation for as much as you can. If you want to truly be disruptive and start innovating, it is crucial to get on board with new technology trends like microservices and containers.

And if you’re looking to innovate, there’s no better place to start than with your infrastructure. CDW partners like Lenovo offer modern data centre solutions that allow your teams to develop innovative solutions in a nimble environment that fits into any budget.