Conventional vs. Modern Data Centers: A Comparison

As the technology continues to prosper, it has a proper influence on the design and construction of data centers too. Gone are the days when data centers were a huge, complex piece of infrastructure.

Nowadays, each and everything- right from data center planning to data cable installation and testing- the elements need to be extremely compact, demanding less of time and energy.

Here, let us see a comparative guide on how the technology could help the modern data centers to be a better infrastructure:

Conventional Data Centers:

Conventional data centers normally have 3 to 4 tiers, namely:

• Service Layer
• Core Layer
• Aggregation Layer
• Access Layer

Each of these layers would multiply the IP Packet analysis and this would add up to the end-to-end latency.

Besides, when the organizations look for an expansion, they generally eye over-subscription as a solution, meaning high downlink capacity and low uplink capacity.

Due to this over-subscription, it is common to experience packet loss when there is network congestion and it never suits the storage traffic.

Thus, the conventional data centers have a lot to improve over the matters relating to link aggregation, virtual machine migration, multiple network connectivity, data cable installation, network management, load balancers and firewalls etc.

Modern Data Centers:

Though this is still a wish-list of most of the organizations, with the use of Cloud etc. technology, the modern data centers could certainly be a great improvement in comparison to their counterparts.

The number of network tiers too could be reduced to at most 2(core layer and access layer) which would be effective to support the increase in traffic amidst the servers.

These 2-layer networks are easily scalable, allow automatic VM Migration and would also have a lower latency.

Besides these, the comms room design etc. would also get a better assistance with a number of modular UPSs and modular generator systems rising to the needs of the organizations.

These would support all kinds of organizations, regardless of its size or capacity and an organization would never need any whopping expenses during their data center expansion.

The Bottomline:

With the evolution of more sophisticated and low-cost products, modern data centers could certainly be a more compact and low-space aspect.

As compared to their conventional counterparts, they could help in forming better and flexible organizations which do not think twice to expand on account of their less budget.

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