Overview of a Data Center

In today's post we are going to talk about the visit that was made to us last Tuesday, February 12, 2019, Joan Ruiz, Network and Security Systems Engineer for Fortinet, who came to present us an overview of what It is a new generation Data Center, the components and technologies that make it possible and the vision of Fortinet to this whole set.

Joan presented us the key concepts of these Data Center of which we can highlight:

• Virtualization
• New network paradigm
• Automation
• Security
• Cloud

If we go deeper into virtualization, a key concept that is taking more and more presence in the Data Center as well as in the IT world, it allows a much simpler and more optimized environment management with concepts such as VMWare Vmotion that allows us to administer the virtual infrastructure on physic ones. Also, we find hyperconvergence, technology that allows us to define all services in one of them only through software.

He also told us about the new network paradigms and trends towards Fabric-Based architectures with nodes in Spine-Leaf topology. In addition to these environments we found technologies such as Virtual Port-Channel or VSS systems (Virtual Switch System).

Likewise, Joan introduced us to the world of the Building Blocks of a Data Center, highlighting the presence of the Core, and WAN and Internet connections, where high availability and security are key points.

Talking about the components of a new generation Data Center, we can highlight without going deeply into them:

• Switchs
• Firewalls
• DDos
• ADC
• WAF
• MAIL
• PROXY
• SANDBOX
• LOGS
• MANAGEMENT
• SIEM
• Servers (Computation)
• Cabins (Storage)

And finally, talking about future trends and where the Data Center world is currently going, we were able to touch the Cloud world and how companies tend to use them more every day, especially with a hybrid and multi-cloud architecture that allows us to have the information and services distributed in a manner consistent with the services it provides. In addition to this evolution, the automation of all these centers will allow a more agile management and control of errors faster and more precise.