Datacenters today have evolved over the past few years and have successfully cooled rooms that had housed numerous servers. The new age datacenters in an aim to minimize overall footprint, feature high density servers that need advanced power and cooling systems. Simultaneously, owing to the constant security threats, datacenters today also feature high-end security systems that are managed and monitored from remote locations.
Furthermore, technology innovations and high end IT systems have also brought in certain difficulties that have resulted data center management become a tedious process. Conventionally, datacenters have been very static till sometime back. Majority of enterprises who went on to become IT enabled has established datacenters with several or few physical servers by following a straightforward approach in managing these set ups.
It was observed that an IT team would take responsibility of the server sprawl while the facilities team managed the power, cooling and building management. …