Data centres, a solution to a problem or a root of a problem?

Data centres started as a cost-effective way to handle gigantic chunks of information. However, increasing use or, as some circles put it, the overuse of the these centres is costing more than it is saving.

The overall cost of handling data centres as centralized data providing sources and the overuse by the public and corporate world has increased security concerns. Back-up software are becoming more complex and their purchases are subsequently hiking in the market.

“If you look back years ago, the initiatives in the data center were the same — organizations needed to reduce power, they needed to reduce cooling costs, and the only way to do it was storage-consolidation and server-consolidation type efforts,” said Danny Milrad, a director of product marketing at Symantec.

A few years back the connectivity to a data centre was not so profoundly complex. Corporate world used these centres to access files and reports remotely. However, in the last couple of years the service has become a business. Cloud computing is the latest product of data centre usage.

It all started with the concept of consolidating servers and data at minimal places. With the help of different software, companies could make different virtual servers on a single machine, hence cost saving. However, the current wave of cloud computing like in SkyDrive, GDrive and iCloud has made things more complex than ever.

Smartphone is another advancement in technology that has increased the traffic on data centres exponentially. There are more email accounts, and more emails. Then there is social networking and then there is cloud computing. Catering to mobile devices as smartphone and tablets alone is quite tough a task.

“The iPhone was released in June 2007 and made a pretty dramatic change,” said Trevor Daughney, a product marketing director in archiving and e-discovery at Symantec. He notes that virtualization solution pioneer VMware made significant introductions two months later, in August 2007, when it went public.”

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