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Do Omaha Data Centers Face Challenges from Server Huggers? (SlideShare).
What are server huggers? And what challenges do they present for Omaha data centers? Learn how to embrace server huggers and meet their needs.
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Do Omaha Data Centers Face Challenges from Server Huggers? (SlideShare)
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Do Omaha Data Centers Face
Challenges from Server Huggers?
2. Server huggers. A term often used pejoratively to
refer to IT executives who can’t let go of their
physical in-house server infrastructure. Rather
than treating them as dinosaurs, Omaha data
centers should welcome their existence.
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3. The challenge data centers in Omaha face from
server huggers is to show them how they can still
have control without the overhead of an onsite
data center.
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4. What Drives Server Huggers?
And How Do Data Centers Meet Those Demands?
There are a number of beliefs, right or wrong, that server
huggers use to justify keeping things in-house:
•Control
•Security
•Job Security
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5. Additional Arguments Omaha Data Centers Can
Use with Server Huggers
It’s not just server huggers who want to keep things close at
hand.
Streaming demand, video conferencing, and multimedia
presentations are increasing bandwidth needs.
Second-tier markets don’t want the lag involved with
setting up shop in larger city markets further away
Data centers in the smaller markets are going to continue to
be in demand.
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6. These data centers can allow even those who are
hard-core server huggers the opportunity to keep
things close to them.The IT department can still
have control while being able to better utilize the
space and manpower that was previously tied up
with the onsite center.
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7. The Bottom Line
Almost half the companies surveyed had server
hugger mentality when it came to IT.Those
companies are going to be reluctant to go to the
cloud.That’s a sizable market that data centers can
attract by providing services close at hand.
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