Data center management
To provide stakeholders with critical IT services, organizations need to keep their data centers operational, secure, and compliant. Data center management includes the tasks and management tools needed to do so. The person responsible for carrying out these tasks is known as a data center manager
Typical responsibilities of a data center manager include:
- Maintain service level agreements (SLAs)
- Ensure fulfillment of licensing and contractual obligations
- Identify and resolve IT problems such as communication issues between edge computing devices and the data center
- Secure data center networks and ensure backup systems and processes are in place for disaster recovery
- Secure data center networks and ensure backup systems and processes are in place for disaster recovery
- Manage and allocate resources to maximize budget spending and performance
- Determine the optimal server arrangement and cable organization
- Contingency planning in the event of a natural disaster or other unplanned downtime
- Performing necessary updates and repairs to systems while minimizing downtime and impact on IT operations and business functions (also known as change management
