Server Virtualization on its own is not enough in today’s environment of limited space and budgets. Storage Virtualization is needed to break the hard link between application data and storage devices, and Unified Networking is needed to connect all the pieces. Together, these three essential virtualization processes make up a Dynamic Data Center.
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Virtualization through a Dynamic Data Center can yield major benefits. Every company, no matter their type, size, or place in the market, has similar problems—the need to move faster and keep up with increasing demands. So what can virtualization provide?
Server virtualization provides more agility, enabling you to better keep up with the demands of the business. Rapid provisioning is the means by which agility is provided. In the past, adding a new server for a new application required new machines and installations, meaning multiple calls and requests stretching over weeks to months. Virtualization allows new servers to be up and running within hours.
With a Dynamic Data Center, rapid provisioning goes even further. New applications need additional storage space. Most companies may have a bit of extra storage, but usually must engage in a lengthy process of procurement and installation. Through thin provisioning, storage can be obtained quickly and easily, rationing out space to share within a large pool. This allows IT staff to monitor and manage the pool, give applications and users the space they actually need, and respond with flexibility and speed to most business requirements.
Server virtualization means flexibility around hardware. Data is not tied to a physical location, meaning it can be moved to new servers, transported to temporary sites, and sent to secure spots easily. This gives organizations the ability to move and protect data when adding new systems and users, with little or no down time.
Through the Dynamic Data Center, data can be transferred across different storage locations with ease and simplicity, allowing new additions to be made without complication.
With server virtualization, data centers reduce resource costs and contribute to the ongoing quest for ecological and economical solutions. Typical servers run at utilization rates of 10-15 percent, meaning a significant amount of power is diverted to run machines that are highly inefficient. Server virtualization can cut energy costs by 70 to 90 percent, and save 7,000-kilowatt hours per machine. That’s equivalent to taking 1.5 cars off the road or planting 55 trees.
A Dynamic Data Center takes this resource consolidation even further, cutting the need for excessive and inefficient physical storage machines. This allows you to make better and fuller use of the resources at hand, and cuts power costs and energy waste.
Server virtualization makes disaster recovery a streamlined, successful process, rather than a painful endeavor. Applications and data are easily backed up or replicated on a virtualized server, ensuring business continuity through any event that occurs.
A Dynamic Data Center additionally facilitates comprehensive security in the face of disaster. By creating snapshots of data and flash copies that are replicated to remote sites, the company’s corporate information is fully captured, and the organization’s future protected.
With server virtualization, IT can control updating, archiving, and other management tasks with little downtime. Updates and patches can be done all together, during business hours, and users can continue to be productive.
Through the Dynamic Data Center, IT has even more control over processes and data. Time spent manually moving information around is eliminated. Data can be easily copied, replicated, accessed, and moved, without interrupting workflow, resulting in increased productivity of IT staff, or less time required to manage the same amount of data.
Through a Dynamic Data Center—including server, storage and network virtualization—organizations can realize cost savings through multiple means:
Many IT consulting companies can create a virtualized server environment, but without integrated storage and network virtualization, the solution will be incomplete. Dewpoint can architect a comprehensive infrastructure plan, working with organizations to create a customized Dynamic Data Center.
Dewpoint's team of professionals can provide your company the extra edge with streamlined process, dependable delivery and subject matter experts to meet your services needs including: solution architecture, business analysis, project management and more. Engagements can be limited to project discovery and scope, or expand as requested, up to full implementation with documentation and training.
Contact Dewpoint today for more information about how Dewpoint can support and implement your IT challenges while increasing efficiency and decreasing costs.
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