-Ravi Raj
Rising adoption of cloud and virtualization has resulted in higher computing demand, which has created more pressure on networking racks as they need to support more servers and greater network traffic.
NetRack, a leading solutions provider for data centers and end-to-end IT server racks, advises businesses on how they can improve their efficiency with networking racks.
Network racks help businesses in efficiently managing IT assets as racks, which are used to hold multiple networking equipment. Companies that rely heavily upon these network cabinets cannot afford server outages or other cabling disasters as they could lose their valuable data.
Here are some tips for businesses to improve the efficiency of networking racks:
Suitable cable management by increasing the airflow
Maintaining efficiency and ensuring a high level of performance requires high density cable management can be achieved with the help of rack enclosures. In addition they also meet the challenges of cable management and reduce the cable volume. Enclosures are available in wide width or deep sizes allowing extra room for cabling and PDUs allowing the businesses to make complete use of rack enclosures.
Racks with capacity for future growth
Networking racks can be useful in enabling fast and smooth functioning of business. Increasing number of servers and cables is increasing rack density, directly affecting the performance of businesses. To ensure proper protection of your networking equipment and to eventually prevent downtime, it is important to have enough capacity to support your business needs. Therefore, it is important to select racks with sufficient internal space for your current equipment and to ensure that you have enough space to accommodate planned future expansion as well as any unplanned equipment purchases.
Ensure proper positioning & cabling
Delivery of more power to added circuits within the enclosures makes the process of heat removal more difficult. Adding cables within it cannot create a barrier and remove the excess heat from rack enclosures. This will require proper positioning of racks with accurate cabling. Get rack enclosures with features which can help businesses improve installation speed, thereby ensuring greater reliability.
Flexibility, modularity and adaptability
With emerging new technology trends, businesses need to match up with the latest and the best technologies available in the market. A detailed planning is essential so that businesses can quickly respond to changing market trends. Rack enclosures should also be adaptable to changing requirements and future business growth. Providing highly adaptable racks to industries is important to support their changing demands.
Efficiency in managing storage and space
In order to utilize the available storage space efficiently, networking racks are used where components like patch panels, servers can be placed in a relatively smaller space, thereby enabling users to simplify the task of managing and organizing the racks. Well planned organizations where storage and space are optimally used also helps in improving its efficiency.
(The author is the Director (Sales and Support) of NetRack. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent the views of Channel Times or any of the websites managed or operated by Trivone Digital Services)