Assessing the Reliability, Availability, and Manageability of the Data Center

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The typical data center has evolved into a complex multiplatform hybrid that has become difficult to manage and costly to run. Successive generations of technology are layered one on top of the other, cobbled together in a desperate attempt to cope with current demands. Most run some version of Windows and several UNIX variants side by side (Exhibit 2). This hodge-podge of technologies has resulted in greater complexity, thus raising the cost of doing business. Perhaps the most amazing offshoot of the steady advancement in technology, though, is the sheer number of servers in use. Many organizations are operating hundreds, and sometimes thousands of small distributed servers, a number that is growing by 10 to 20 percent with each passing year. While a distributed server model certainly offers economies of scale in typical business uses, the point comes when an abundance of servers adds an administrative burden. Organizations, therefore, must find the correct balance between economies of scale offered by distributed servers and management advantages afforded by a more centralized infrastructure.

Exhibit 2: Operating Systems Run on Respondents' Servers

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Server Disk Management in a Windows Enviornment
Server Disk Management in a Windows Enviornment
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Year: 2003
Pages: 197

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