DATA CENTER
DATACENTER
The Data Center is the digital brain of the entire company and can be owned or outsourced, on premise or in the cloud. The Data Center is the environment where the most critical and most expensive IT and Telecommunications processes take place; for this reason, the continuity of Data Center services has a direct impact on the company's business.
Go2next offers Next Generation Data Center services, which aim to continuously transform this environment in order to support the growth of digital businesses. To this end, Go2next professionals are “trusted advisors” qualified to assist the ICT manager in the implementation, management and optimization of the Data Center.
The critical nature and high costs associated with Data Centers require companies to periodically conduct comprehensive assessments of the real conditions of this environment. The goal is to build a detailed view of the Data Center, identifying areas for improvement so that this infrastructure works in favor of the user company's ICT and business objectives.
In addition to examining the entire environment, Go2next professionals check in detail the functioning of the energy, cooling, security, processing, communication systems, etc. One of the first actions is to determine which applications are critical, which are BackOffice applications and which are peripheral applications.
This survey will guide the type of check that will be carried out on each of the infrastructure elements responsible for supporting these services.
After this phase, Go2next professionals develop a report that indicates the actions to be taken in the short, medium and long term to promote adjustments in the Data Center. The diagnosis also includes essential information for the company that decides to adopt an external (outsourced) Data Center to quickly expand its processing capacity.
Go2next's Data Center Infrastructure Assessment service includes examining:
• The environment itself, its location and possible structural vulnerabilities;
• The conditions of the building;
• Security of physical access to the environment;
• All energy infrastructure;
• Refrigeration, electrical and mechanical systems that support the operation of the Data Center;
• Computer rooms (checking the project, layout, size, details of this specific environment);
• Equipment in general (verification of various computing devices such as computers, routers, etc., isolated and in racks).
The corporate universe increasingly includes elements such as cloud, Big Data, IoT and mobile devices; it is also clear that applications are constantly changing, abandoning legacy systems in favor of the App format (Web and Mobile Application). However, within many companies, there is still frequent conflict between legacy systems/proprietary environments and cloud computing.
Go2next can help companies facing this challenge to modernize and consolidate their Data Center infrastructure.
To this end, Go2neXt's offerings incorporate virtualization and cloud computing trends that are fully aligned with the "software-defined anything" (SDx) and Web-scale IT trends. The Data Center modernization movement carried out with the support of Go2neXt services includes:
• Determine how to save on servers, storage and network infrastructure;
• Reduce electrical load levels, heat dissipation and space demand, in addition to providing fire detection and fighting elements;
• Map the number and location of Data Centers;
• Determine whether they should be standalone, collocated or outsourced;
• When appropriate, transition to a cloud platform and modernized infrastructure;
• Examine the resilience of facilities and infrastructure already in use;
• Identify and minimize vulnerabilities;
• Manage, through the C-NOC Go2neXt, all the elements that make up the data center; this includes monitoring mission-critical applications based on business rules.
Cloud Computing, Big Data and other technologies are driving advances in data center storage architecture, from hyperconverged infrastructure and server-side storage to data awareness built into arrays.
This is an essential infrastructure for business continuity; in this model, storage devices become the data foundation of the Data Center and its users spread across the world.
Go2neXt professionals' in-depth knowledge of everything related to the cloud and virtualization means the company is prepared to design, implement and manage some of the most advanced and consistent storage solutions on the market.
The goal is to ensure data security, performance and on-demand growth of this infrastructure. These achievements are included within a cost-on-demand (CoD) vision that meets the budgetary conditions of the ICT area.
Go2next enables the Data Center to accelerate the delivery of content and applications; to do so, it designs solutions with high-performance IT infrastructure and interconnections.
Go2neXt’s Data Center Acceleration offering speeds up WAN networks, ensuring secure and cost-effective data connections. In addition, the solution can establish the foundation for hybrid clouds or accelerate the connectivity of an enterprise’s data center with multiple clouds and outsourced IT services.
The secret to the success of Go2neXt's WAN Acceleration services is to start from a consultative premise that, first of all, identifies critical applications, where response time is essential for the business.
Anyone familiar with the challenges faced by data center managers knows that the equipment and systems in this mission-critical environment will be useless if the cabling is not capable of supporting the demands of the systems. It is therefore clear how important it is to understand the cabling standards of the various data center segments, identify the cabling objectives and choose the right components to ensure the continuity of the operation.
Go2next designs and installs mission-critical Data Center infrastructure, with cabling that provides companies with network infrastructure with optimized performance.
Go2next's intelligent Data Center infrastructure offerings include data, voice, CCTV or electrical services and provide:
• Real-time monitoring of connections;
• Documentation of active connections and equipment;
• Proactive detection and resolution of connection failures;
• Maximizing infrastructure with real-time visualization of connection port usage;
• Certified CAT5, CAT6 and CAT6A cabling system;
• Cabling as a service contracts (cost on demand), with defined service levels (SLAs);
• Full documentation of the infrastructure, As-Built;
• Infrastructure diagnosis, with state-of-the-art tools and equipment. This service is performed by a highly qualified technical team that develops actions in a modular manner;
• Survey and identification of horizontal cabling;
• Compliance, performance and stability tests;
• Reorganization of Data Centers;
• Documentation, As-Built and consultancy report.
The data center manager knows that server consolidation provides greater computational efficiency and lower energy and cooling costs. Another benefit is the flexibility to migrate workloads between physical servers.
Go2next helps corporations develop and implement server virtualization and consolidation solutions. A good project in this area can reduce the number of servers needed, cut energy bills and consolidate the entire physical infrastructure. Virtualizing data center elements accelerates the implementation of new services and applications, in addition to preparing the environment for migration to the cloud.
Here are some benefits provided by Go2neXt's offering in this area:
• Elastic sharing of ICT resources and the consequent on-demand use of these elements;
• Reduction in electricity consumption and heat dissipation, contributing to cost reduction and sustainability (environment);
• Reduction in acquisition costs, as environments share physical resources such as CPU, memory and storage;
• Optimization of environment management;
• Reduction of operational risks, facilitating data migration and the construction of DRP policies.
The Data Center undergoing transformation poses several challenges for ICT managers. The critical nature of the environment requires that migration processes and, in certain cases, physical relocation, occur in a controlled and predictable manner.
Composed of professionals with over 30 years of experience, Go2neX offers services that ensure the stability of a change process that can be complex and, in some cases, disruptive. The Go2neXt team's mission is to promote Data Center modernization and changes based on a methodology that reduces the impact of these processes on the business.
Go2neXt Migration and Moving services enable loss-free data movement and reconnection of equipment and infrastructure without impact. Another tangible benefit for the company using the Data Center is the certainty that these actions will take place within the timeframe imposed by the client's business.
Acting based on PMI processes, Go2neXt's specialized and certified Data Center team prepares the moving plan, determines and mitigates the risks involved, recommends the best layout in the destination environment (according to usage, electrical consumption and cooling), moves the equipment and/or data and documents the environments before and after the Moving.
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The critical nature and high costs associated with Data Centers require companies to periodically conduct comprehensive assessments of the real conditions of this environment. The goal is to build a detailed view of the Data Center, identifying areas for improvement so that this infrastructure works in favor of the user company's ICT and business objectives.
In addition to examining the entire environment, Go2next professionals check in detail the functioning of the energy, cooling, security, processing, communication systems, etc. One of the first actions is to determine which applications are critical, which are BackOffice applications and which are peripheral applications.
This survey will guide the type of check that will be carried out on each of the infrastructure elements responsible for supporting these services.
After this phase, Go2next professionals develop a report that indicates the actions to be taken in the short, medium and long term to promote adjustments in the Data Center. The diagnosis also includes essential information for the company that decides to adopt an external (outsourced) Data Center to quickly expand its processing capacity.
Go2neXT's Data Center Infrastructure Assessment service includes examining:
• The environment itself, its location and possible structural vulnerabilities;
• The conditions of the building;
• Security of physical access to the environment;
• All energy infrastructure;
• Refrigeration, electrical and mechanical systems that support the operation of the Data Center;
• Computer rooms (checking the project, layout, size, details of this specific environment);
• Equipment in general (verification of various computing devices such as computers, routers, etc., isolated and in racks).