Modern IT Infrastructure: A Catalyst for Business Growth and Data Center Optimization

The rise of infrastructure modernization is closely related to the current changes in the IT industry. In today's dynamic business landscape, many businesses are tied to outdated systems and technologies that fail to meet the demands of the modern digital era, particularly when it comes to legacy storage architectures.

Legacy storage systems consist of various disparate platforms, spanning multiple generations of technology. This fragmentation impedes agility and creates inefficiencies within organizations, resulting in environments that are slow, unreliable, and error-prone. Consequently, the quality and speed of service delivery are affected, making it difficult to adapt quickly to changing demands and new opportunities.

The inherent lack of integration in these fragmented platforms creates data silos. Isolated data requires multiple copies, leading to redundancy that hampers accessibility and significantly increases the complexity of managing and extracting business insights from valuable information.

New Challenges in the Era of Data Explosion

The relentless growth and expansion of data present another significant challenge. By 2025, an astounding 175 zettabytes of data will exist worldwide, much of which will be spread beyond traditional data centers due to the rise of edge computing, multi-cloud environments, and Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms.
However, the evolving nature of data demands more than simply letting it “sit there”; it requires efficient and seamless data interoperability. Business intelligence (BI) relies heavily on the ability to access and effectively utilize this distributed information.

Data's explosive and unpredictable growth renders the conventional approach of "sizing for five years" obsolete. We must plan for growth and anticipate "what’s next."
Now, more than ever, infrastructure modernization is crucial for organizational growth and data center optimization, playing a vital role in achieving constantly evolving business outcomes.

Why Modernizing Your Infrastructure Will Futureproof Your Organization

Beyond the looming issues of platform fragmentation and data sprawl, modernizing your infrastructure offers many benefits:

Cost Reduction and Efficiency: Consolidating and automating legacy storage platforms can significantly cut costs by eliminating overprovisioning, simplifying management, and optimizing resource use. This also enhances agility, enabling rapid provisioning, scaling, and migration of data and applications, and supporting hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Managing Emerging Workloads: AI workloads, such as machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, require specific data characteristics and storage performance. Additionally, blockchain, robotics, and IoT workloads generate large volumes of data that need real-time storage, processing, and analysis, necessitating high availability, reliability, and security.

Enhanced Security: With the rise in data breaches and ransomware attacks, there is a growing need for robust and resilient data center protection, detection, and recovery capabilities. The shift to hybrid and multi-cloud environments adds complexity to data storage and management, demanding greater visibility, control, and optimization of data resources across various platforms.

Sustainability: The rapid increase in unstructured data can lead to unnecessary storage and energy consumption if not properly managed. Organizations should adopt optimizations that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date view of their data center across all locations and platforms.

Application Rationalization: Applications drive business operations. It's crucial to evaluate which applications to keep, replace, retire, or consolidate. This involves assessing each application's business value and technical fit, calculating the total cost of ownership, and determining the best placement for each application.

Begin Your Modernization Journey with FS

As a professional communications equipment and solutions provider, FS is committed to providing high-performance PicOS® switches and a professional solution team for infrastructure modernization. With the AmpCon™ Management Platform, PicOS® switches enable automated GUI-based configuration management, improving deployment and O&M efficiency while reducing learning and O&M costs. By automating configuration management, you can simplify complex network tasks and optimize resource utilization. FS also provides quality delivery support, real-time technical assistance, and exceptional customer service to help modernize your organization and data center. Click on the links to learn more about FS solutions and services.