Disaster Recovery is the process, policies and procedures an organization uses to prepare for recovery or the continuation of the operation of their IT Assets (applications, software, data, and/or technology infrastructure, including the data center facilities) that are needed to resume the performance of normal business functions after the event of either a disaster or an outage resulting from a technology or data center failure.
Data Center consolidation is an organization’s strategy to reduce IT assets by using more efficient technologies. It is the converging of a Data Center infrastructure in order to either:
1.Reduce the number of devices in a single Data Center, or
2. Reduce the global footprint with fewer Data Centers and locations to manage, for example 4 down to 2.
So why should a company consider Data Center consolidation?
What is VDI?
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) refers to the delivery of end-user desktop environments through centralized virtualization infrastructure. Individual desktops are hosted on one or more servers as virtual machines, and consumed via a thin-client, kiosk, mobile device, or existing desktop hardware.
What is the value of VDI?
•Mobility – Your desktop anywhere, any time, any device
•Security – Increased physical and logical security of data
•Manageability – Consistent, centrally administered policies and service-levels
•Flexibility – Quickly spin-up test/dev environments
•OPEX savings – Reduce operating expenses through shared infrastructure and improved manageability
•Low latency and high performance, even during periods of peak demand
•High density of desktops per node
•Linear and granular scalability of x86 building blocks
•Rapid deployment of new virtual desktops
•Simplified infrastructure and management (lower OPEX)
Data protection can be defined as the process of safeguarding important information from corruption and or loss. Formulating a strong data protection strategy is an important part of every enterprise’s security plan.
Data availability is a term used by some computer storage manufacturers to ensure that data continues to be available at a required level of performance in situations ranging from normal through “disastrous.”
SimpliVity offers the only hyperconverged infrastructure solution with built-in data protection and data efficiency features that eliminate the need for separate backup and recovery products.
How can Hyperconverged Infrastructure enable you to modernize the infrastructure for your virtualized workloads to:
1. Streamline operations,
2. Improve agility, and
3. Reduce costs
4. Reduce risk
Traditional IT infrastructure is losing ground because it is viewed as too costly and complex. Instead, organizations are turning to the public cloud and Hyperconverged Infrastructure as alternatives because they are less costly and easier to provision and manage. Within the Hyperconverged Infrastructure category, SimpliVity, an HPE Company, is one of the fastest growing vendors. In a report recently published by Gartner, SimpliVity’s growth of 71.4% in 2015 outpaced the overall category by 1.4x.
Refreshing your IT Virtual Infrastructure
An aging IT infrastructure can lead to greater maintenance costs, increased downtime, out of support software and a skill set shortage in the marketplace. Companies have typically operated on a 3 to 5 year server and storage refresh cycle to address the problems associated with an aging IT infrastructure. Before undertaking an infrastructure refresh it is important to understand the business benefits, the costs and most importantly the business risks of undertaking a technology refresh. Keep in mind you may have to purchase some automated tools to support the migration of the data and the applications. Having a good understanding of these factors are paramount to a successful refresh program.
Webopedia defines hyperconvergence as follows: “Hyper-convergence (or hyperconvergence) is a type of infrastructure system that is largely software-defined with tightly-integrated compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources. This stands in contrast to a traditional converged infrastructure, where each of these resources is typically handled by a discrete component that serves a singular purpose. Hyper-convergence is also called hyper-converged infrastructure.
Q: Why write an RFP?
A: To use as a tool to find the best Data Center Relocation / Migration services at competitive prices.
Q: Why move from your existing data center?
Data Center Relocations – High Risk Projects
Data center relocations are high risk and a major undertaking for most organizations. Virtually every department in an organization is affected by a data center move.
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