Next generation data centres.

Automation and standardisation. Dynamism and flexibility. These are just four of the growing number of demands being placed on modern, agile and scalable IT and rapidly increasing data volumes, Big Data, Industry 4.0, IoT and artificial intelligence are all accelerating these challenges. Companies are now being faced with the question of how to become more innovative and be able to react quickly to changes within their business as affordably and securely as possible.

A modern data centre has to balance maximum flexibility, affordability, high availability, automation and data security. Only then can your IT department contribute real added value to your business, whether that means in terms of optimising business processes, developing and supporting new business models or accelerating your go to market. Next generation data centres are the bridge between your business and the digital transformation and Bechtle is by your side navigating the divide from planning to construction to operations.

The multiple benefits of a modernised data centre.

Cost efficiency and financing.

Lower CapEx, optimise OpEx and enjoy flexible payment streams with vendors’ pay as you use and on demand financing models through Bechtle.

Right-sizing and elasticity.

Pay and use as you grow through targeted outsourcing of suitable workloads to the cloud and take advantage of on demand services as you need them.

Scalability and management.

Manage hybrid environments flexibly as if they were an own data centre and accelerate go to market.

Security and high availability.

Thanks to built-in security solutions for your network and data centre, plus disaster recovery, backup and archiving.

Head of Business Management Service & Solutions

The modern data centre is ITs navigation hub, which is why we consider the big picture—from planning, procurement, installation and virtualisation to automation and data centre operations. We optimise your data centre architecture so you can focus on your business.

Modernise not renovate –
The data centre as the springboard for your cloud strategy.

The driving forces behind modernisation are the desire for consolidation, simplified administration and improved cost efficiency as infrastructures that have grown over the course of many years are increasingly difficult to control and workloads from the public cloud add a dash of extra complexity. It is nowhere near enough to upgrade classic components such as servers and storage, rather to create an agile, flexible infrastructure platform, breakdown silos, use standardisation and automation and therefore enable as uniform a cross-platform management as possible.

A growing number of businesses are therefore turning to the cloud to take the load off their data centres to create a much more agile hybrid environment and better tackle the growing challenges posed by the public cloud and on-premise structures in a hybrid architecture. A cloud strategy should always start with the modern data centre in order to be better able to expand into the cloud and exploit its benefits.