Managed Data Center: An introduction

The Managed Data Center is a core part of the overall Managed Services concept for many organizations. The service offering Managed Data Center supports IT supervisors in all their tasks be it operation of servers, storage systems or networks. With ever increasing volumes of data , backup and recovery of data becomes really important although there is a risk of even the backup and recovery systems exceeding their capacities. Thus the main challenge then is to maintain cost efficiency and at the same time not hinder the innovations in business processes. This increases the demands placed on data center performance. So, in come the “Managed data centers” to the rescue.

Main providers of Managed Data centers: Fujitsu Technology Solutions, EMC, HDS and NetApp