As organizations continue their journey to virtualize their environment, it is important to realize the full capacity and capabilities of their equipment. In a virtual atmosphere, organizations must have an understanding of their capacity threshold, as well as the traffic between virtual workloads.
Vital to the virtual data center, is the backup of critical applications and databases. It is crucial for businesses to protect themselves from storage breakdown to ensure that there are no common failure points.
Challenges
Challenges
- Limitations of a siloed IT department
- Multiple points of failure
- Increased physical data center space and facilities costs
- Lack of accurate capacity planning
Core Solutions
Core Solutions
- Virtualization
- Infrastructure management
- Collaborative physical and virtual management
Benefits
Benefits
- Centralized management
- Skill sets and resource availability
- Improved asset utilization
- Increased ROI for IT
- Improved business continuity and disaster recovery
The future of cloud computing:
Combining data centers
We’re reaching an important transition in the history of computing, a maturing of the digital world that began with the thought that data would travel best in binary packets of ones and zeroes. These changes are leading to the development of the digital economy and forcing heads of data centers to focus on agility, innovation and gaining a competitive advantage. However, data centers must also use the latest technologies and integrate through intelligent software layers.
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Redefine Data Center Economics with Active Fabric
The innovations that led businesses through the Internet and into the Cloud Era were made possible by the advancement of open innovations in the server and software industries. Open x86 architectures unleashed unparalleled innovation over multiple generations of micro-processor technology. Similarly, the open software industry provided revolutionary advancements in nearly every facet of business and industry. Server virtualization has further unleashed value by enabling on-demand resource availability, asset efficiency and business continuity.
Extending the Power of Virtualization to Storage
Despite the broad adoption of server virtualization, the storage architecture that supports it has not kept pace. Server virtualization imposes new requirements on storage, increasing the demand for storage systems capable of responding to the highly random, spiky I/O profiles of virtualized applications and new workloads like VDI. The emergence of cloud-based services and rapid development and deployment of new applications increase end-user expectations for capacity, performance, and agility.
It is a long-standing truism that a business that can’t continually improve its value proposition won’t keep up. Case in point: Only 71 companies remain today from the original 1955 Fortune 500 list. In today’s world of constant innovation and technology enablement, enterprises need to not just keep up, but stay ahead. Mobile consumers and employees, the rise of pervasive analytics, rapid innovation across industries – these changes can make business as usual obsolete in a matter of weeks. The ability to launch new initiatives rapidly and change directions just as quickly is now of premium importance.
Extending the Power of Virtualization to Storage
In the Always-On Enterprise, more and more workloads are mission-critical and are being deployed on virtualized infrastructure, leading to virtual machine (VM) sprawl.
Rethinking the business benefits of the cloud
Cloud computing is interesting as both a technology and operations model, but what impact does it have on the business? The traditional answers have been cost reduction and business agility, but the cloud offers a wide range of additional benefits, including revenue growth—through new business models, global market expansion, accelerated innovation, and enhanced customer experience and satisfaction—as well as risk mitigation. Moreover, while the cloud can reduce the cost of IT, the way in which it does so is more nuanced than the simplistic argument that “the cloud is cheaper due to economies of scale” would suggest.
The intelligent data center
The intelligent data center will position “servers” as workloads and everything else as enablers. Data center automation will seek to move these workloads between hardware devices aggressively to achieve optimal efficiency. When possible, hardware devices will be emptied of workloads, then powered off to reduce costs. Virtual Machine (VM) server workloads will be automatically shifted to where they can be served best and fastest. This will provide the best possible responsiveness for users. It will also create tremendous new agility for users, as support for new applications and workloads are provisioned immediately.
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A solution for big data.
Today’s data centers support high-demand workloads, remote users, expanding infrastructure and big data — forcing companies to search for better storage solutions.
We have the answer. Insight can help you with virtualized and cloud solutions that offer larger, more secure storage capacity for your rapidly growing volume of data.
