Today’s business is directly tied to the capabilities of IT. In fact, organizations will align their strategic goals around what their data center can actually delivery. This is why modern data center planning, evaluation, and deployment is critical for your technology platform – and your entire business model.
When you look at data center considerations, there are a number of things to examine. For your decision, you may very well be looking at power availability, scalability, and visibility as the key decision criteria areas. Furthermore, understanding the differences between data center facilities, and the impact of those differences on reliability, is critical in choosing a data center partner.
With all of that in mind – as an organization looking at a colocation provider – you begin to see that selecting the right partner is a critical, multi-layered, approach. Let me give you an example: in a dedicated delivery model, the customer is allocated a fixed infrastructure that is isolated from other customers. Dedicated infrastructure typically cannot scale beyond the initial allocation. And, while dedicated infrastructure isolates one customer from another, it usually comes at a higher price due to capacity management challenges and often leads to lower availability due to the small number of fault domains.
In this whitepaper from RagingWire, you’ll learn the key differences between a dedicated model and one that delivers distributed redundancy as a direct enhancement of shared and dedicated infrastructure models. In working with the right kind of colocation model, the following points from the paper help make the decision a lot more clear:
- Shared Power Delivery Infrastructure
- Dedicated Power Delivery Infrastructure
- Distributed Redundancy Power Delivery Infrastructure
- Maintenance Scenarios – Shared, Dedicated and Distributed
- Electrical Distribution Protection for Wholesale Customers
- Isolation of UDP Pair Circuits for Wholesale Customers
- Distributed Redundancy and UDP Pair Distribution
Here’s the other big point: the conversation doesn’t quite end here without a point around good management and controls. We also need to incorporate DCIM and intelligent management for these types of advanced distributed redundancy systems. Download this whitepaper today to learn about creating best practices around colocation selection, the differences between distributed redundancy and a dedicated infrastructure, and see where DCIM plays a critical role around visibility.
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