CO-LOCATION DATA CENTRES
62 of prevention and resilience – the two pillars of effective business continuity strategy . As a result , organisations are looking to consolidate their rising cost by moving mission-critical infrastructure to the sanctuary of the co-located data centre facility . Thanks to the multiple layers of redundancies built into these facilities , single points of failure can be prevented from bringing the whole network down , ensuring service levels remain in a constant state of high-availability .
There are more pragmatic reasons why organisations choose to host their IT workloads away from their base locations . Circuit boards , transistors and other circuit components not only produce a lot of waste heat that needs to be controlled in a sustainable way , but also are susceptible to both malfunction and failure if the environmental conditions in the data centre are not at the right levels . If the air is too humid , water may begin to condense on internal components ; if the air is too dry , ancillary humidification systems are required to avoid static electricity discharge problems . Organisations are looking to co-locating physical IT infrastructure in
‘ ACCORDING TO GARTNER , 80 % OF ENTERPRISES WILL HAVE SHUT DOWN THEIR TRADITIONAL DATA CENTRE BY 2025 ’
— Sungard Availability Services
MAY 2019