Location modes of servers

Where today it is the best of all to place servers with maximum capacity?

Option 1: installation of the server in office

The server became a usual component of office long ago, however now will not call it regulation any more. Earlier and all money of the company was stored in office safe. Unconditional pluses of a company performance with bank to you will describe everything - it is security and benefit. But you will be surprised when you count and find out that installation server at office always is more expensive arrangements of the armored room with the selected protection. Placement of the IT equipment in the territory of the company conducts to a much bigger expense of resources, than ensuring reliable storage of money.

The office is necessary for operation of servers:

• installation and maintenance of operation of the ventilation system;
• cooling and conditioning system;
• system of fire-prevention signaling and fire extinguishing;
• the system of the guaranteed power supply;
• monitoring with sensors of humidity, temperature, current, tension, leak of water, smoke and also the employee who watches all this and can quickly eliminate the arisen faults.

Besides, it is desirable that the premises were without windows and rather spacious to place in it the equipment according to safety rules. Case is not limited to disposable investments: at the initial stage of making decision on implementation server at office it is necessary to budget extension costs of the server premises and operational works on service of all engineering systems.

Option 2: placement of the server at home

"It is the best option!" — the system administrator will exclaim, being guided at the same time by exclusively personal motives. Each of employees of service of IT support at least once in life had an experience of an urgent call for work in connection with restart or check of the equipment at an inopportune time. Therefore such worker will tell you about obvious advantage of outwork with the corporate equipment.

Such option has some pluses: for example, minimization of maintenance costs of the server and motivation of service staff. But it is also important to know and about shortcomings. The power supply network and communication in houses are not intended to support work of an industrial electronic equipment, besides there are no due cooling and protection.

The main minuses consist in instability of work, first, of network, secondly, of the worker. The combination of inept repair of the electrical system in the building, interruptions of Internet connection in the residential sector and a holiday of the worker will lead to the fact that the server will be unavailable. Let's assume, the employee will leave a flat key in case of the departure and by phone will give instructions that needs to be done. But who will be responsible that not that button will be pressed? How to write off losses? And what staff instructions are if the service information will fall not into those hands because of unauthorized access to the unprotected apartment?

Option 3: lease of the server and premises

The IT equipment and computer programs for business are constantly improved to support the main value of the company — Information. Corporate system administrators do not manage to keep up with technical progress. The large volume of data requires today professional approach therefore data centers appeared. Leaders of the markets entrusted document flow and support of IT structure to "information banks", and practice shows foresight of such approach. The data center will more reliably save, and scales the client's IT resources in process of growth of its business.
Of course, the large corporations having impressive financial potential build own data centers. However it is no more than several hundred of similar objects in our country, they require serious investments into construction and operation and also ensuring big need for IT infrastructure. It is no wonder what in such conditions gains popularity a new type of business — transfer of all cares of corporate servers to commercial data centers. Advantages of such placement are obvious: the company focuses attention on own business, without being distracted by non-core spheres, and with guarantee gets the qualified support.

The client can select placement of own server from racks (colocation) or full lease of the equipment of provider (dedicated).

Placement of own server in racks of data center allows customer company to forget about questions of service and monitoring of the engineering systems of an object and also communication lines. The head does not need to think of whether there will be enough resources under placement of IT infrastructure in five years. And professionals are responsible for safety.

Lease of IT resources at provider provides more guarantees and at the same time allows the client to save on the capital costs connected with acquisition of the equipment. Some data centers in addition to the equipment provide in leasing and software.

The maximum flexibility in settings and ease of configuring — one more advantage of Dedicated server option. While the competitor plans how many the equipment he needs to deliver and configure in data center, the client of the selected service for changes in settings or increase in disk space needs to leave only the request in DPC.

What remains at office of the customer? Phone. For the operational solution of any question from the house or office one call to a harmonious team of specialists suffices. The most important aspect of data transmission in data center — the qualified 24/7 technical support is provided only there.

The flexibility of the talented head consists in selecting the best option depending on requirements of time and requirement of the company: whether he is ready to sit infinitely in the neighbourhood with the corporate server or aims to develop successful business.