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Farming out data centers
Servers, the workhorses of IT networks, have proliferated in recent years—so much that companies have had to store them in unlikely places such as conference rooms and converted closets. Concerns for security and reliability, however, are leading more companies to move their servers into tightly controlled and efficiently managed data centers, alongside their mainframes. Doing so presents challenges—in costs, locations, and operations—that demand the attention of senior managers as well as technologists.
The take-away: State-of-the-art server centers are expensive to build and operate, but the long-term operating savings are eye-opening—often more than 30 percent a year, thanks mostly to the lower real-estate costs of remote locations.
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