Implementing AI in your data center

The digital transformation is rapidly accelerating. More and more organizations are developing data-driven business models to maximize the use of their data. Data is gold and has become an important part of almost every business operation. Almost every organization has therefore started implementing a smart data center.

Running data centers and hiring cyber professionals is hugely expensive. Organizations are therefore constantly looking for better options. Artificial Intelligence is a strong alternative for this. For example, the data center is used to autonomously perform various tasks such as server optimization and equipment monitoring. It is clear that AI helps your company to stay ahead. But what are the concrete benefits?

Make your data center more secure

Data centers are susceptible to various types of cyber threats. Cyber criminals are constantly finding new ways to get data out of our data centers. Using sophisticated malware, they plan cyber attacks that infiltrate organizations' networks. The consequence? Access confidential data from millions of users.

Many organizations therefore employ cybersecurity professionals to analyze and prevent new cyber attacks. However, finding and analyzing cyber attacks is extremely labor-intensive and expensive.

With the help of AI you can use your data center to protect your data. It learns network behavior and detects cyber threats based on deviations. In addition, it identifies malware and security vulnerabilities in your data center system. Incoming and outgoing data are screened for security threats. This way your organization remains extra safe.

Monitor your equipment with AI

Many companies often experience sudden repairs or equipment failures. Mechanics do not always detect defects in the system, which in turn can lead to malfunctions. The result? An expensive repair or even the replacement of equipment. In addition to this cost, equipment downtime also causes lower productivity and poor customer service.

Equipment outages are a common phenomenon for data centers, usually due to the increasing amount of data processing. The entire system is heated, constantly affecting data center equipment. The cooling system has stopped working due to an undetected error? Then the whole system overheats. Monitoring equipment is therefore of great importance.

Do you want proactive monitoring of your equipment? Then use AI. AI detects defects in equipment through pattern-based learning. If AI systems find too much or too little vibration and unwanted noise, the system alerts data center engineers to possible defects. In this way, AI prevents possible malfunctions in the data center and you ensure that your organization never comes to a standstill.

Experience less downtime in your organization

Data center outages often lead to significant downtime. Until now, many organizations therefore hired professionals to monitor and predict data outages. But with the implementation of AI you save a lot of unnecessary effort and costs. AI monitors and predicts server performance, network congestion, and disk usage to avoid downtime. Based on these results, an AI system can autonomously implement mitigation strategies to help the data center recover from data outages.

Optimize your servers

Each data center consists of multiple physical servers and storage devices. This is where the processing and storage of data takes place. To process large amounts of data, engineers design algorithms in their data centers. Based on that, the servers divide the workload equally. But with the increasing growth of data, this approach is no longer sufficient for optimal server performance.

With AI, you distribute this workload across different servers using predictive analytics. The system, based on so-called load balancing algorithms, learns from past data. This way you can remedy possible errors in the data center, shorten processing time and quickly resolve risk factors. That way you get the best out of your server.

In short, AI has significant benefits. Would you like to know more about the use of Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning in your data center? Please feel free to contact one of our specialists.

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