As enterprises push out data centers into cloud-based computing and virtual applications, traditional data center planning and practices haven’t necessarily kept pace. It is time to reshape definitions of classic brick and mortar data centers into a new computing concept with different performance and total cost of ownership expectations? If nothing else, the business cases now driving data center services are beginning to demand it. “As a global organization, we know that we must not only provide 24/7 IT, but also enterprise-strength IT support on a “follow the sun” basis,” said John Heller, CIO of Caterpillar.
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