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Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders are typically focused on new ideas, technologies and ways to deliver business value. Yet reinvesting in legacy technologies like data center infrastructure can often pay dividends in the form of increased capacity and reduced operating costs. “Most I&O leaders are dedicating their attention to cloud migrations, edge strategies and getting workloads closer to the customer, but it’s important to remember that a core set of workloads may remain on-premises,” says David Cappuccio, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner. “Although continued investment in an older, more traditional data center may seem contradictory, it can yield significant benefits to short- and long-term planning.” Here are three ways that I&O leaders can optimize existing data centers to support new and emerging business services. Enhance delivery Data centers that are nearing operational capacity are typically limited by a lack of physical space, power to support additional equipment or adequate cooling infrastructures. This results in companies either choosing to build a new, next-generation data center or using colocation, cloud or hosting services. Although these are viable options, each of these solutions requires moving workloads away from the traditional on-premises operation. This introduces risk and adds complexity. An alternative solution for long-term upgrades
