Challenges faced by the management

(i) Maintaining a skilled staff and the high infrastructure needed for daily data center operations:. A company needs to have staff which is expert at network management and has software / OS skills and hardware skills. The company has to employ a large number of such people, as they have to work on rotational shifts. The company would also used additional cover in case a person leaves
(ii) Maximising uptime and performance : While establishing sufficient redundancy and maintaining watertight security, data centers have to maintain maximum uptime and system performance.
(iii) Technology selection : The other challenges that enterprise data centers face is technology selection, which is crucial to the operations of the facility keeping business objectives in mind. Another problem is compensating for obsolescence.