Data Center Operations and Management

A data center is more than the sum of its parts. Data center management requires a highly skilled IT staff armed with the appropriate orchestration tools to stem the tide of explosive data growth, migrate to virtualized platforms and manage rising energy costs. In addition, operational modes – such as business continuity and disaster recovery – demand planning and practice to ensure a healthy business. Business pressures that organizations face today require a flexible IT infrastructure that can transform the data center from an IT expenditure into a competitive advantage. Burton Group provides in-depth coverage on systems management, autonomic computing, managed services, co-location, business continuity, and disaster recovery operational modes necessary for IT administrators plan IT operations and manage the data center.

• Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
• High Availability Strategies
• Business Continuity
• Systems Management
• Automation and orchestration
• Standards-based management
• Hosting and Co-location strategies
• Data center location and site selections

This topic relates to the Data Center coverage area - New and future data center technologies for server and storage virtualization, compute densities, server and storage management improvements, and data center physical and logical architectures.

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