Pros and Cons of Build & Buy Data Centers

In present IT landscape, many companies are facing the question whether they should build a data center in their facility or buy a data center that suits their company needs. Here, in this blog, we are going to discuss all valid implications to be aware about before reaching a conclusion whether to build or buy a data center.

For reaching a right decision, it is important to firstly evaluate your core business strengths, experience, ability of internal resources, availability of funds, size and type of organization, these all factors are necessary to consider for making a wise decision.

Build Data Center	Buy Data Center
Build data center refers to building your own data center within the organization's facility depending upon the needs that best suits your company.	Buy data center refers to taking a facility on lease from a service provider whose competency lies in designing a data center based on customer's business requirements.
Other thing to consider is sensitivity to cash flow that can be another deciding factor. Whether company has enough funds to invest in equipment, maintain them and take charge of other expenditures. For building a data center, company needs more funds.	When it comes to buying a data center, it is a cost-effective option as compared to designing data center from the scratch. In this company needs to pay for only those services which they are using.
Another factor that can help you in taking a well-informed decision is dependency on internal resources, required deployment time-frame, accessibility to data center and most importantly your organization's experience and expertise in operating a data center.	In this operation, you don’t have to be concerned about running a data center as your provider will take care of required bandwidth, required equipment, security and privacy of data. The only pull back here can be your company needs to share the space with other company's so if you are comfortable with shared space then this makes a great choice.

DATA CENTER INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

Technology is changing at a rapid pace, although cloud enjoys a dominant place in the IT landscape but  need of traditional in-house data centers cannot be ruled out, there are many companies who are still doing it traditional ways. Besides, companies who are already using cloud services are also maintaining a hybrid configuration, or at least a network facility which ensures close monitoring and high availability, thus in-house data centers still form an integral part of business entities.

With in-house data centers, a new term DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) is steadily gaining momentum. With this much growing potential, here is an overview of what DCIM can offer:

Majority of IT professionals are familiar with the term, infrastructural monitoring including resource evaluation from time to time, keeping a check on network latency, downtime alerts, constant network monitoring, these all attributes ensure your systems and software are up & running thus overall keeping an eye on health of your infrastructure. When we talk about DCIM, it offers data center services with all above features but with a wider range, power & capacity thus giving companies an edge.

How is DCIM different?
In traditional data centers you know that your servers are up but you don’t have concrete idea about how many servers can fit in your facility and safely manage to cool. DCIM provides broader data center hosting services, by filling these gaps. It introduces following concepts such as:

Maximizing system utilization thus resulting in improved efficiency
Well Optimizing physical infrastructure that includes space management too
Deep analysis of existing virtual systems
Consolidation of resources
Change management
Asset Tracking
Multi-tier monitoring

There are many traditional products that partially look after these areas but DCIM takes data center services to one step higher, with an intent to unify all assets with one centralized point of administration thereby bringing greater accuracy and efficiency.

1, 2, 3 ASPECTS IN A VIRTUAL DATA CENTER MODEL

Data Center Virtualization With ITBD

Virtualization in simple words explained as a stack with layers that are dependent on each other and placed on top of each other. These layers are inter -dependent upon one another for smooth functioning of the virtual data center. Virtual data centers created, abstracting each of these resources into a pool to provide resources on demand. Let us have a closer look at the different layers of the virtualized data center model.

Over the past decades, companies are adopting virtualization technology at an accelerated rate to gain agility and flexibility and benefit from software based compute and storage resources. The aim of virtualization technology is to centralize administrative tasks thereby providing improved workloads and more room for scalability.