The advantageous characteristics of maintaining an on-premises Data Center are as follows:
- The budgeting and financial model typically associated with an on-premises infrastructure provides a controlled method to plan for future investments, resulting in predictable costs.
- The security and control of the Data Center and the policies used to maintain network access ensures a high degree of confidence in the security of corporate data.
- Established backup and recovery processes, as well as disaster recovery plans, permit the organization to recover from unplanned interruptions in a timely and predictable fashion. Ensuring a high degree of availability of applications and data and business continuity.
- Having Data Center assets near one another allows the implementation of low-latency, high-performance networks necessary to support modern and complex workloads.
- Over time, the IT organization tends to foster relationships with LOB personnel skilled at bridging the gap between the needs of the users with the capabilities of the IT department. This creates a sense of teamwork among the various groups within the organization and increasing productivity.
- The Data Center provides an ideal interconnection point for the business to interact with other organizations, including cloud providers, network providers, or third parties.
- The concept of “data gravity” means that accumulated legacy local data is readily available to be shared among multiple applications all running within the four walls of the Data Center.
- Infrastructure can be provisioned to deliver the required application uptime and availability. This can be done in support of both traditional and modern applications without requiring changes to the application.