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Shared Storage
Storage 101 – Virtualisation Changes Everything!
Server virtualisation has set the stage for those who are rethinking how they design and implement their IT solutions. Whether you’re looking for new ways to lower cost, improve scalability, or improve service level agreements (SLAs), integrating storage as part of the overall solution will enable you to:
- Bring products, services, and projects to market faster
- Save up to 50% on storage power, cooling, and space and lower overall data centre costs
- Scale your virtualised environment and accommodate data growth without degrading performance or investing in additional storage
Virtualising your servers is only half the story.
According to both Gartner and IDC, you need to consider storage as part of the solution if you want to realise the promise of a truly virtualised environment.
The momentum in data centre virtualisation has increased the focus on technologies which contribute to more effective application provisioning, business continuity, and resource consolidation. Storage virtualisation provides the ability to represent data independently of where and how it is physically stored, thus enabling increased asset utilisation, faster application recovery and reduced space, power and cooling requirements.
Solution planning is criticalThe extent to which this technology is able to deliver such benefits will depend upon the completeness of the storage virtualisation solution and how well it is integrated into the core data management architecture. Strategic planning is critical to your complete data centre transformation as making the wrong storage decisions as you build your cutting-edge data centre could be catastrophic. It is difficult to understate how many stories we have heard about companies undertaking server virtualisation initiatives only to discover major performance issues at the storage layer. |
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