Summary

Your Data Center houses and protects the servers that perform your company's vital business functions, from processing sales transactions and storing financial records to routing e-mail and developing future products. It is a specialized environment that must be customized to meet the unique needs of the devices it houses and people who use it.

Assign roles and responsibilities early in the Data Center design process, and foster communication among key players to ensure that the project proceeds smoothly. When designed, built, and managed correctly, a Data Center helps foster growth and innovation for your company.

Five key design strategies should be followed to create a productive Data Center. First, make the Data Center robust by including ...

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