IO, a managed data center provider aimed at governments, service providers and big enterprises, is making a play for the Ohio market with the announcement of IO Ohio.
IO Ohio is what’s known as a Data Center as a Service (DCaaS). More broadly, IO promotes its overall approach as Data Center 2.0. This model was created by IO and has industry and partner support.
Here’s how the company explains it: “By providing the interconnection of business, IT and data center facilities you will achieve excellence in data center operations management. The platform consists of integrated data center infrastructure technology, IO.Anywhere hardware and IO.OS software that provide ‘off the shelf’ standardized modular data center capacity units & operating system controls that can be deployed on-premises or consumed as a service,” the company explained on its website.
IO.Anywhere hardware is a modular, integrated data center that includes modules for campuses, enterprises and service providers.
IO.OS software is a data center operating system that offers lights-out automation and other high-end data center management features.
Data Center Outsourcing Options
There are various ways of outsourcing data centers. Sun long ago announced an on-premises solution dubbed “Data Center in a Box.” This is a complete data center, with hardware, storage, applications and networking, that can be transported to sites around the world and let new operations get set up, or existing ones expand. Today there and an array of such data centers solutions from providers such as IBM.
With the managed cloud, one doesn’t need the physical hardware, but can make do with high-speed Internet connections that link you to cloud services.
Setting up of these cloud data center services is getting faster all the time. In the case of IO Ohio, the company got it up and running in less than three months.
IO Ohio already has customers. LexisNexis is based in Ohio and was already an IO customer. Now the business and legal information provider is using DCaaS from IO Ohio.
"Extending our footprint to IO Ohio enables us to support customers with next-generation Data Center 2.0 technology. IO DCaaS provides the secure, always-on infrastructure that our customers require for their mission-critical legal applications and archives," said Terry Williams, Vice President, Managed Technology Services at LexisNexis.
Meanwhile, Dayton, Ohio is hopping as far as high tech jobs go, having been found to be third in the nation for increasing high tech hiring.
What is Data Center 2.0?
Data Center 2.0 is a new way to build, manage and use data centers. Here data center capacity is sold and used as units of capacity, all based on standard off the shelf technologies. Customers can use Data Center 2.0-based system as a service or a product. When it comes time to expand, new capacity can be assembled quickly.
Differences Between Existing Data Center 1.0 Installations and Data Center 2.0
Edited by
Rachel Ramsey
