| | August 201519CIOReviewskilled open heart surgeon has likely seen so many variants of the ailments she is attempting to remediate that a mental playbook is ingrained for quick decision making. How many variations of a full scale core network upgrade or IDS/IPS/UTM implementation have you participated in designing and delivering? If the number is more than 5, you are either a technology powerhouse who has reinvented many data centers, or you enjoy spending time smashing your hand with a hammer in between upgrades. The greatest planning for any significant data center upgrade where today's expectation is zero downtime is downright scary. Today's senior technologists may not have someone's life in their hands, or maybe you do, but having a significant tool chest of previous experiences that allow you to make the best decisions quickly will not only help you succeed, but will also no doubt inspire your team to build up their mental playbook for their future successes.Today's data center technology may seem as if an unimaginable number of permutations of architectures exist, and they do if you decide to build something better than anyone has ever imagined. If it's not based on a reference architecture, then you are highly likely to revisit your project. I've been lucky enough to be responsible for a good number of data centers along with visiting a significant number of data centers, some belonging to the biggest names in global cloud computing, and thanks to the hard work by many brilliant forward thinking engineers, my bet is that if you consider your data center fairly modern, then our architectures are pretty close. We've been working towards data centers that can be upgraded with a greater sense of confidence in first ABy Louis Martinez, CIO, OmniSYS, LLCReference Architecture: The Make Or Break Point For Today's Data CentersCIO-Insights
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