Data Centers are the Backbone of Business
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Data centers are critical to the success of modern businesses. They are important components and responsible for storing, processing, and distributing vast amounts of data. Data centers are the backbone of modern IT infrastructure, and their role has become increasingly important with the rise and momentum of cloud computing, big data, and the Internet of Things.
Companies today require the ability to scale their IT infrastructure as their needs grow. This is particularly important for those that are experiencing rapid growth or expanding into new local or global markets. Data centers provide the capacity and resources needed to support new applications, services, and users.
An enterprise data center invests heavily in the latest hardware, software, networking technologies, and employs teams of experts with specialized knowledge and skills in areas such as cloud computing, automation, virtualization, and cybersecurity. A Gearlinx™ Total Out-of-Band™ management solution ensures these investments can be utilized to their fullest potential by ensuring availability of a management network for secure remote access, new infrastructure deployments, and network remediation capabilities.
The Average Cost of Data Center Downtime
Data center downtime can be costly for businesses, with estimates suggesting that the average cost of an unplanned outage is around $9,000 per minute. Downtime can occur due to various factors such as power outages, network failures, software breakdowns, hardware failures, or human error. It is essential for a data center to have a Gearlinx™ Network Resilience Platform to eliminate costs associated with data center downtime including lost revenue, decreased productivity, operational inefficiencies, and damage to brand reputation.
To minimize the cost of downtime, businesses invest in network resilience, disaster recovery, and real-time network monitoring to ensure high availability, reliability, and life-cycle management so they can function efficiently and compete in today’s fast-paced digital marketplace.
Data Centers Have Been Liberated from Physical Walls
The emergence of edge computing has sparked innovation in the design and implementation of data centers that are closer to end-users and edge devices. Data centers are no longer a physical location, but a universal cloud designed to connect edge cloud nodes that extend the reach of applications and business. These edge data centers are located “closer to the action” of data creation and consumption therefore the primary objective is to reduce latency, improve performance, and optimize network traffic.
Infrastructure decisions are now being influenced by the placement of application workloads, rather than the other way around. Public cloud, edge computing, colocation, and on-premises infrastructure, are quickly gaining popularity as an alternative to private cloud for mission-critical workloads and as-a-service solutions. The traditional approach of centralizing data center functions in a single physical location is no longer relevant, as businesses deploy their applications across a diverse range of cloud, data center, colocation, and edge deployment locations in order to meet complex requirements.
Network Resilience Cloud is Business Critical
The Gearlinx™ NR4400 Network Resilience Platform is essential for unsupervised edge data centers to give the network team secure remote access to the network infrastructure that is delivering business services at the edge. The NR4400 ensures the edge data center network can maintain its normal functions when faced with network disruptions or failures with network redundancy, failover, and backup/restore mechanisms to automatically connect and switch traffic to an alternative network path.
The NR4400 is designed to connect edge endpoints to the NRAAS™ cloud so applications can continue to operate and deliver business products and services in the event of an outage. The platform involves a combination of redundancy, failover, and backup mechanisms that can automatically and seamlessly switch traffic from one network path to another in the event of a network failure or congestion.
The importance of the NR4400 Network Resilience Platform for edge data centers cannot be overstated. It is purpose built to ensure that edge data centers and business applications can continue to operate in the face of network disruptions and can help reduce downtime and data loss. As more organizations adopt edge computing and deploy edge data centers, the need for the NR4400 with Total OOB™ will only continue to grow.
Network Resilience Cloud: Total OOB™, 4G LTE, Containers, Automation, ZERO
Network Resilience as a Service™. Scale Made Easy
The Gearlinx™ Network Resilience as a Service™ consumption model is ideal for today’s data centers as many companies desire to convert from a capital expenditure (CAPEX) to operating expenditure (OPEX) model. The NRAAS™ consumption model provides businesses greater cost savings, pay-as-you-go flexibility, resource scale, and faster time to market.
The NRAAS™ consumption based OPEX model enables businesses to pay for their network infrastructure when they need it and as they need it. This approach offers cost management benefits and helps businesses avoid unforeseen expenses. NRAAS™ also offers operational enhancements that can enhance efficiency and effectiveness, resulting in increased productivity and lower costs. Given its ability to generate an immediate net positive return on investment, NRAAS™ is a great investment for businesses of any size.
Gearlinx™ is Operational Resilience Simplified
Gearlinx™ Operational Resilience as a Service™ (ORAAS) simplifies cost management, streamlines operations, and reduces downtime for businesses. The service is based on a subscription model, and it includes features such as Total OOB™, cellular failover, innovative automation, monitoring and reporting, incident management, and IT service management. By using Gearlinx™ ORAAS, businesses will improve and simplify their operational efficiency while reducing costs associated with managing and maintaining their network infrastructure.
The ZERO ORAAS™ platform provides a centralized view of your Gearlinx™ fleet and 3rd party devices in data centers, colocations, and remote edge sites. It gives the network team and operations complete control of their network along with the information they need to make operational improvements and life-cycle management. It puts your network team in control of the information so your business is more agile and can make real-time fiscal budgeting decisions.
Data centers can unlock the power and flexibility of the ZERO ORAAS™ platform to manage their network and business.
Automation Saves Time and Money in the Data Center
Data centers deploy automation tools to increase operational efficiency and reduce errors. Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker, APIs, and Python are popular tools used to provision routers and switches, minimize configuration errors, and speed up deployments.
Total OOB™ management is crucial for data centers that rely on automation to manage their complex infrastructures. It offers an extra layer of reliability, security, and flexibility that ensures uninterrupted access to critical applications and services for users. Total OOB™ supports automation by enabling administrators to remotely manage equipment and systems during maintenance, upgrades, and new deployments without the need for a physical presence in the data center.
Data centers that use automation simplify repetitive tasks, reduce time to scale infrastructure during increased demand, improve overall consistency, enforce dependable security policies, and agility to make rapid changes to infrastructure. Automation helps data centers achieve new business outcomes faster, so companies can stay ahead of their competition by offering new services for customers and prospects.
NR4400 Network Resilience Platform
The NR4400 is the perfect network resilience platform for data centers. It has the performance, speed, and scale to grow and expand with the demanding requirements of a data center. The NR4400 Network Resilience as a Service™ consumption model allows data centers to save 40% in upfront hardware costs and a subscription for as little as $1/day, putting the network team in control so they can tame operational costs. The NR4400 is an enterprise Total OOB™ management and compute platform designed and optimized for ensuring business continuity in high density, mission-critical, data centers.
It is an ideal platform to deploy, manage, and remediate data center network infrastructure. To learn more about the capabilities, visit the NR4400 product page.
ZERO Cloud-Based Centralized Management
ZERO is the Operational Resilience as a Service™ (ORAAS) platform for the NR4400. It provides a centralized view of your Total OOB™ network and 3rd party devices. ZERO’s API-First strategy allows for tight integration so a data center can leverage existing DevOps and NetOps tools used within their environment.
The ZERO ORAAS™ platform enables scale for infrastructure deployments by providing a single point of control for managing and monitoring your Gearlinx™ infrastructure and the routers, switches, firewalls, attached to the NR4400. ZERO gives the network team immediate reach and command of critical network infrastructure along with the information they need to make operational improvements and life cycle management.
To learn more about the capabilities, visit the ZERO product page.