Your data center is the most critical resource within your organization. As you know, it provides the means for all storage, management and dissemination of data, applications and communications for your business. When employees and customers are unable to access the servers, storage systems and networking devices that reside in the data center, your entire organization can shut down. Millions of dollars can be lost in a matter of minutes for businesses like banks, airlines, shipping facilities and online brokerages. Faced with these consequences, IT executives today must optimize their data centers, particularly the network infrastructure. When you consider that. | The Three Principles of Data Center Infrastructure Design The Three Principles of Data Center Infrastructure Design Understand These Three Principles and You ll Lower your total cost of ownership Support your future growth plans Reduce your risk of downtime Maximize performance Improve your ability to reconfigure Your data center is the most critical resource within your organization. As you know it provides the means for all storage management and dissemination of data applications and communications for your business. When employees and customers are unable to access the servers storage systems and networking devices that reside in the data center your entire organization can shut down. Millions of dollars can be lost in a matter of minutes for businesses like banks airlines shipping facilities and online brokerages. Faced with these consequences IT executives today must optimize their data centers particularly the network infrastructure. When you consider that 70 percent of network downtime can be attributed to physical layer problems specifically cabling faults it s paramount that more consideration be given to infrastructure design. Within this white paper we introduce three principles that when executed properly will help you gain significant benefits and savings throughout the life of your data center. The Three Principles of Data Center Infrastructure Design The Three Principles of Data Center Design When you understand the three principles of data center design you are able to Lower your total cost of ownership Support your future growth plans Reduce your risk of downtime Maximize performance Improve your ability to reconfigure Principle 1 Space Savings Environmentally controlled real estate is expensive. The cost of building a data center is more than 1 000 per square foot in some cases see Table 1 . Data center racks and equipment can take up an enormous amount of real estate and the future demand for more network connections bandwidth and storage may .
