Cloud and the edge have many organizations rethinking their need for data centers — yet data centers aren’t going away and neither should data center thinking.
Scalability and agility, the ability to avoid long-term capitalizations of hardware and software, and efficiency have all been reasons why companies have moved more IT to the cloud. This has prompted industry analysts like Forrester’s Tracy Woo to say, “It’s well understood using cloud is necessary to stay competitive. The question most are weighing is when and should we be moving all of our workloads to the cloud? ” It’s possible that total moves away from data centers happen — but it doesn’t mean that data center thinking stops. A data center is a physical work center that is filled with computing and the staff who run it. It is an ecosystem, where hundreds of decisions and operations are made and performed each day to keep a business running. Data center managers think mainly about these areas: Cloud computing alters data center thinking because from IT’s standpoint, the cloud isn’t under direct management.
