Data center effected by COVID-19

 COVID-19, in particular has re-shaped the data center industry. "The increase in remote working due to COVID-19 reinforced the importance and reliability of data centers and the networks that support them," according to the report. Information technology has evolved from supporting the business, to being the business, the siloed business model of the past no longer works for modern data centers.  Today's customers needs and demands are also changing. 


Data center effected by COVID-19


Downtime in today's digitally driven business climate can be costly for data centers and their customers. Often, according to the white paper, downtime is cause by simple mistakes like a lack of network documentation, limited information on network configurations, and lack of visibility into performance. For data center customers, those mistakes can translate into lost employees, missed opportunities, and loss of revenue. In some situations, downtime could even mean the loss of a customer's business. The report cites a study from ITIC that found that an hour of downtime can cost a business between $100,000 and $300,000.


Data center effected by COVID-19


That's why healthy data centers have a network monitoring system and centralized monitoring system, that provides actionable intelligence and allows them to quickly make decisions that reduce the risk or duration of downtime. Everything in the data center "requires network connectivity to function," the report say. The authors go on to explain that "in the absence of network visibility, performance management, or analytics, there's no way make connections between the network and everything it's connected to."


The solution to managing today's complex data center networks is a network monitoring system provides insights into network events via alerts that are "useful, readable, and relevant."


Data center effected by COVID-19

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