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The data centre hosts many critical applications and services used by students, professors, researchers and support staff. Maintaining this infrastructure is paramount to provide the best service and aligns with the Digital Campus Transformation Plan’s objectives.
With the exponential growth of servers, the so-called spine-leaf architecture is gradually replacing the traditional three-tier architecture that many organizations use. This new methodology gives a lot of advantages to a data centre such as scalability and network performance. The main benefits are:
Increased redundancy: Redundancy is important to increase the reliability of a network. It does this by duplicating its critical components or functions. If one of the components fails, the other component keeps providing the service to avoid downtime and impact on end users.
Performance enhancement: Spine-leaf architecture applies specific protocols which aid in avoiding traffic congestion. This means higher speeds and less latency.
Scalability: Additional spine switches can be added to improve scalability and help with future expansions. This gives us the flexibility to add more servers down the road, to expand our data centre and support more applications.