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n todays fast-paced and every and ever- changing environment, your business priorities most likely sound similar to
Ithis: Generate new revenue stream, Enhance brand identity, and Increase customer engagement.
Data centers are at the center of modern software technology, serving a critical role in the expanding capabilities for
enterprises. Whereas businesses just a few decades ago relied on error-prone paper-and-pencil documentation methods,
data centers have vastly improved the usability of data as a whole. They have enabled businesses to do much more with
much less, both in terms of physical space and the time required to create and maintain data. However, data centers
are positioned to play an even more important role in the advancement of technology with new concepts entering the
landscape that represent a dramatic shift in the way data centers are conceived, configured and utilized.

The traditional data center, also known as a “siloed” data center, relies heavily on hardware and physical servers. The
first computers were very similar to the traditional data center we know today. Siloed data centers, as they are used today,
exploded during the dot-com era in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. The rapid increase in the number of websites and
applications required physical storage somewhere to house the vast amounts of data required to make those programs run
on-demand in the user’s browser.
Between 2003 and 2010, virtualized data centers came about as the virtual technology revolution made it possible to pool
the resources of the computing, network and storage from several formerly siloed data centers to create a central, more
flexible resource that could be reallocated based on needs. By 2011, about 72 percent of organizations said their data
centers were at least 25 percent virtual.

Behind the virtualized data center is the same physical infrastructure that comprised a traditional, siloed data center. The
cloud computing technology both enterprises and consumers enjoy is driven by the same configurations that existed prior
to server virtualization – but with greater flexibility thanks to pooled resources.

Enter software-led infrastructure (SLI), which aims to capitalize on virtualization technology to take advantage of all the
benefits of the virtual data center while enabling portability, functionality, storage and automation of applications both
within and between data centers.

SLI is still in its infancy but is considered the next step in the evolution of data centers, virtualization and cloud
computing. The combination of server virtualization, software-defined networks (SDN), software-defined storage
(SDS) and automation will enable the creation of a truly dynamic, virtualized data center. SDN and SDS are still new
technologies that have not yet been firmly established in the data center landscape, but they will have a place in the
ultimate vision of the fully automated, fully dynamic SLI.

‘In this special issue, we introduce Top 10 Optimistic Data Center Solution Providers – 2020’ in order to assist business to
choose the right companies. We have featured Optimistic Data Center Solution Providers as the cover story. It specializes
in the use of emerging techniques and practice for developing nation.

We have introduced profiles of FutureSoft, Locuz Enterprise Solutions, NetDataVault, Nikom, Proactive Data System,
Serverwala Data centers, Sify Technologies, STTelemedia Global Data Centres, Tech9labs, and Techvivid Systems.

Our in-house editors have come up with some adroitly written articles such as -
Data Center Maintenance: A Plan for Guaranteeing Smooth Functionality of Equipment, Infrastructure and Design Tips to
Help your Data Center to Go Green, Steps for Successful Data Center Consolidation.

Pallavi Sabe

Pallavi Sabe
Editor-in-chief