DATA CENTER MOVES

Most major computing facilities were originally placed in a headquarters location to serve the large population of users there and to insure the best possible service to this important client base. The factors that influenced site location in the past are no longer valid.

The MIS department of today needs facilities that are specifically designed to serve their unique requirements. Traditional sites in high density developments such as downtown are now too expensive and inaccessible to be utilized effectively as data centers. Add to this, the ever present need for enhanced security and the only viable answer might be a move. A new site not only presents the opportunity to address these problems, but also opens the way to seek preferential tax rates, more dependable power sources and a suburban setting to help attract and retain qualified professional staff members.

Communications facilities to support large user groups remotely are steadily increasing in speed, reliability and availability while decreasing in cost. One fact remains unchanged. There will be requirements at the remote sites that can only be satisfied by channel attached devices. Most high speed peripherals are engineered with a channel interface to ensure that their rated capacities are obtained.

The PIXNET-XL family of products was designed to support channel attached devices that are geographically remote, just as though the equipment was channel attached to the CPU. Utilizing the most efficient communications techniques in the industry today, PIXNET-XL products can deliver sub-second response to interactive users and operate unit record equipment at rated speeds with no distance limitation. These devices include laser printers, check processing systems, microfiche printers, magnetic tape subsystems and others. You can optimize communication facilities to ensure low costs and high productivity over a wide variety of communications media. The service level provided to local users can now be extended to any location that has the requirement without incurring the cost and support issues that accompany a remote mainframe operation (see diagram which follows):
 

	Before Data Center Move	After Data Center Move

 

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