Information Technology has never been more strategic to businesses of all kinds. The cloud, big data, social media and mobile technologies are creating new opportunities to serve customers, enable workforce collaboration and keep costs under control. IT’s high strategic profile, thanks to these new business initiatives, is placing new pressures on servers, storage and networks – as well as the data center infrastructure on which they rely.

IT executives must respond in several ways. This white paper, the first in a series of three, addresses maximizing the efficiency of physical data center infrastructure. Look for these additional papers sponsored by Panduit: Optimizing Infrastructure for Hybrid Data Center Strategies and Efficient Infrastructure Enables Virtualization Strategies.