Virtualization
For Australian businesses, the next 12 months are shaping up to be one of the toughest in living memory. With very few new sales conversions, businesses are turning inwards to rationalise and reduce costs in an effort to preserve their bottom line. From a technology perspective, this has come in the form of server virtualisation and the slow but steady embrace of open source software, including operating systems such as Linux.
The dynamic infrastructure: Solving today's problems while seizing tomorrow's opportunities
For organizations today, achieving optimal business results demands a bold new approach to IT.
For organizations today, achieving optimal business results demands a bold new approach to IT.
Most Recent Virtualization
Virtualization was supposed to solve server sprawl and offer a simple route to data center consolidation. It hasn't. Virtual machines are so easy to deploy that many organizations are now suffering VM sprawl. They have reached the point where they do not know how many VMs they have and have no way to manage them. Rampant virtualization can turn out to be a curse, not a blessing. How can it be controlled?
From the vendor, press and analyst community, it looks like it is all a done deal - virtualisation has swept the board, everything is now fine in the garden, and it's now time to move on to the next big thing, being cloud computing. Pity, then, that estimates are that fewer than 10% of servers out in the world are actually virtualised - and that even that those that have been virtualised are still mainly in test and development environments.
Enterprises that seek a successful move to virtualization have a number of hurdles to overcome. Not all are obvious. Virtualization offers a lot of benefits to the organization that implements it correctly. This paper identifies seven key things that you must know if your business is to be successful in virtualizing your mission-critical applications.
Adding Unified Communications to the Virtual Data Center
This paper explains how the worlds of data and voice have evolved separately in recent years, and what has kept them apart for so long. But it goes on to describe how a leader in the world of data center technology, and another in the world of telephony, got together to do something that many thought impossible – to join the worlds of data and voice on a single virtualized infrastructure.
This paper explains how the worlds of data and voice have evolved separately in recent years, and what has kept them apart for so long. But it goes on to describe how a leader in the world of data center technology, and another in the world of telephony, got together to do something that many thought impossible – to join the worlds of data and voice on a single virtualized infrastructure.
Excerpt from Storage Virtualization for Dummies - Hitachi Data Systems Edition
Chapter 6: Ten Best Practices for Storage Virtualization
In This Chapter:
- Putting in place a process for establishing physical configurations
- Choosing the right way to implement data migrations and tiered storage
- Getting the most from thin or dynamic provisioning
- Discovering scenarios in which storage virtualization can improve IT efficiencies
Chapter 6: Ten Best Practices for Storage Virtualization
In This Chapter:
- Putting in place a process for establishing physical configurations
- Choosing the right way to implement data migrations and tiered storage
- Getting the most from thin or dynamic provisioning
- Discovering scenarios in which storage virtualization can improve IT efficiencies
Excerpt from Storage Virtualization for Dummies - Hitachi Data Systems Edition
Chapter 3: The Economics of Storage Virtualization
In This Chapter:
- Measuring the economic benefits of storage virtualization
- Finding the savings in storage
- Knowing where to start
- Using Hitachi's Storage Economics Consulting Service
- Looking at storage virtualization in action, a case study
Chapter 3: The Economics of Storage Virtualization
In This Chapter:
- Measuring the economic benefits of storage virtualization
- Finding the savings in storage
- Knowing where to start
- Using Hitachi's Storage Economics Consulting Service
- Looking at storage virtualization in action, a case study
Excerpt from Storage Virtualization for Dummies - Hitachi Data Systems Edition
Chapter 2: Types of Storage Virtualization
In This Chapter
- Examining storage virtualization throughout the infrastructure
- Knowing how to select appropriate storage solutions
Chapter 2: Types of Storage Virtualization
In This Chapter
- Examining storage virtualization throughout the infrastructure
- Knowing how to select appropriate storage solutions
There always seems to be a "fly in the ointment" of every great idea. This is no less true in the area of server virtualization. While hardware costs have been dramatically reduced in data centers where servers reside and electricity consumption has dropped, the lack of effective disaster recovery plans and implementations for the virtual environment looms large.
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