Exploring the New IT Infrastructure Landscape 2021

Data centers’ mission critical nature, increasing reliance on them for digital information and significant energy consumption, have created a need to adequately monitor and manage these facilities. This talk will go through the multidimensional approach for data center key indicators, comprising performance and risk, which has been recently added to data center standards and best practices. Performance is examined across productivity, efficiency, sustainability and operations. Risks are also contemplated. Novel multidimensional data center key indicators aim to improve decision-making and contribute to assess data centers.