July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
8h 22m
English
book
Modernizing the Datacenter with Windows Server and Hybrid Cloud
by John McCabe, Ward Ralston, Jeffrey Snover
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Chapter 6
Delivering datacenter efficiency
In this chapter, we take a deep dive into some examples of datacenters in action, look at existing frameworks for delivering datacenter efficiency, explore examples of good, efficient IT practices in action, and walk through a scenario for moving a workload from your on-premises infrastructure to Azure while maintaining a process framework.
Snowflake datacenters
Take a moment and ask yourself, “When was the last time I worked for an organization that didn’t have a datacenter?” Explore that thought and reflect on how good or bad it was. Think about whether you had structured cabling; if so, was it labelled correctly? Did you have regular hardware refresh practices, and what was it like to deploy new ...