A data center hosting and management outsourcing checklist

Today, third-party service providers play a major role in managing the data centers of Indian organizations. While this trend is not new to India as such, it is evolving with the constantly increasing number of service providers involved in data center management. Thus, when it comes to data center outsourcing, there are several key factors to keep in mind.

First, recognize that the issue involves more than just outsourcing a data center's management. When you outsource data center's management to a third party, it brings various associated services into the picture. Such services include management of bandwidth, network infrastructure, server space and storage space.

For example, at LG Electronics, we have arrangements with various vendors to manage different technology aspects. Bharti Enterprises and HCL Technologies Ltd. manage our connectivity infrastructure. We work on IBM servers, while Hitachi Data Systems handles our storage needs. Apart from these tasks, dat...

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