Data Center Virtualization and Standardization

The demand for IT services continuous to rise, while IT budget remains flat. This makes it increasingly difficult to manage the growth especially with the complex IT infrastructure. Maintenance and Management increases the total cost of ownership, because the applications cannot scale easily when built on isolated resources. Data Center standardization, consolidation and virtualization is the key to breaking down the capital expenditure, eliminating inefficiencies and meeting increasing growth demands. At every level of the data center from compute, to storage and to networking there is need for rapidly provisioned on demand capacity that is reliable, highly available and highly scalable so that IT can deliver virtualization economics across the entire data center.

            Server virtualization allows physical servers to be partitioned into multiple virtual servers. Each virtual servers runs its own operating system and applications. Server virtualization facilitates management, improves scalability and reduces capital expense by reducing the number of physical servers in the data center. Virtual server growth has led to an increase storage and network demands. To maintain, we have to use the proven principles of abstraction, pooling and automation can be applied to standardize the storage and network layers. With software defined storage, physical storage is decoupled from virtual workloads. Storage resources are then abstracted to enable pooling, replication and on demand distribution for higher availability. The result is a storage layer which is standardized, aggregated, flexible, efficient and scalable. With software defined networking, the logical network is decoupled from the physical network topology. This allows IT to treat the physical network as a pool of transport capacity that can be consumed and refurbished on demand. As we move into the mobile cloud era, same tools and process use to virtualize and consolidate you’re on premise data center can be used to facilitate your move to the hybrid cloud. In the hybrid cloud architecture services from multiple heterogeneous provider can seamlessly be managed as a part of single virtual cloud.

            

             Managing future growth while reducing cost and complexity is no longer impossible. Data center virtualization and consolidation helps your IT team reduce capital expenditure and eliminate inefficiencies on route to meeting increasing growth demands and delivering virtualization economics across the data center. And ultimately expanding to the hybrid cloud will lead to new services and business innovation.