5 Misconceptions about Data Center Management

A misconception is a wrong or a misleading information about something. In the data center management, there are some misconceptions that may mislead one. Azure management highlights some of these misconceptions and talks about how you can avoid them.

1. You no longer need to manage the system when utilizing the colocation facility

This is not true since you need to ensure that the colocation facility meets or exceeds the service level agreement. You also have to ensure that the staff has access to specific facilities and that there is a good coordination of people, assets, and processes. The colocation facility is meant to ensure that light and fans work properly.

2. The public cloud will help in the running of all resources

This public cloud model is becoming more and more popular. However, it has various disadvantages despite this growing popularity. Also, some applications are difficult to maintain in the public cloud and some regions and industries find it hard to use the public cloud since it may not comply with the set regulations. In addition, some firms and organizations would not like to be completely relying on an outside supplier, and it may hinder proper performance by some application.

3. The use of public cloud is less costly

This statement may be not true. Sometimes, it may become more expensive as compared to other data management systems. It may contain other costs which cannot be easily recognized. The costs may come in form of implementing, converting and integrating an application. These costs may be huge. There are some applications which may be difficult to run which may have unique requirements especially if they are database intensive. Other extra costs come in the form of premium service payments which adds up to the total cost.

4. For proper management, you need real-time monitoring

Real-time monitoring is a good idea since it gives you the ability to see everything and how it is happening in real time. This will enable you to avert problems before they become worse. Having insight into long-term and short-term events helps to avert any problems before they happen. This also makes trend analysis simpler and helps in reducing the operational costs and making long-term capacity planning simpler. The long-term insights also help to forecast the fragility of systems and assets that may lack fragility and help properly manage them.

5. When using virtualization, you don’t have to worry about hardware

It is obvious that virtualization can improve the performance of your hardware. However, it does not have any effect on efficiency at the physical infrastructure layer. You still need to do the assets capacity planning and the power management to improve on efficiency.

Having wrong or inadequate information on data center management may lead to poor decision making and bad management. One needs to ensure that all the concepts and ideas harbored by an individual or an organization are authentic and thoroughly proven to avoid misconceptions in the data management field.