Facility Considerations for the Data Center
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Abstract
The Cisco® Enterprise Data Center Architecture—a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems® for agile Information Technology (IT) support of business needs—critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to provide the power, cooling, physical housing, cabling, physical security, and fire protection that allow IT to function reliably and seamlessly. This paper presents strategies for designing the integrated, end-to-end facilities that provide this crucial physical infrastructure to support the emerging virtualized computing environment.
Data center managers are embracing trends that better align IT with business strategies, increase operational effectiveness, and provide a technology platform for continued growth. The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Network Architecture is a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture that supports an IT organization’s immediate demands for consolidation, business continuance, and security, while enabling emerging service-oriented architectures, infrastructure virtualization, and on-demand computing. This architecture allows IT managers to deploy technologies that best support their business goals today, while enabling efficient implementation of future services and applications.
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