Hello. Data centers, whether starting in a simple rack or taking up an entire floor, are the engines of business growth in today's connected economy. Technology is changing fast and investments in infrastructure can be very high and can get very fast.

Here are five considerations to keep in mind when purchasing any ICT infrastructure to help protect your investment and adapt to the changing landscape.

• Make sure your infrastructure can respond dynamically to changing business demands without having to continuously change systems.

• Eliminate redundancy and try to unify management of the different systems so you can save on costs.

• Ensure that your architecture and infrastructure allow you to accelerate IT service delivery to users across your organization no matter where you and they are located.

• Reduce infrastructure footprint and increase performance by deploying state of the art infrastructure.

• Lastly, but most importantly, lower your up-front capital and management costs while maintaining the possibility to invest as your needs grow using the same infrastructure.

There are continuous demands for ICT purchases as companies evolve. IT managers and IT leaders should be ready with a proactive strategy to protect the company’s investment and grow with these needs. The data center has become the ever intelligent brain of an organization and CIO’s are the custodians of that organization.

Make sure your data center is future ready.