Data Center Infrastructure Virtualization

Server Consolidation
While virtualization offers real benefits in terms of cost savings, improved server performance and minimized storage requirements, it also provides network administrators with essential flexibility and agility in managing data center environments. By consolidating multiple physical systems in the data center (e.g., servers, storage, network and co-location systems) into a virtual infrastructure, we can help you gain solutions that deliver:

• Lower total cost of server ownership
• Higher server utilization
• Increased operational efficiency and responsiveness to business units
• Improved manageability, enabling better planning of future server acquisitions
• Simple, rapid and reliable disaster recovery
• A “greener” corporate environment

Storage Area Network (SAN) Design and Implementation
Demand for storage capacity continues to increase at a rapid pace—as much as 60% annually by some accounts. Storage administrators are challenged to create a high-performance storage environment that can handle large capacity within limited space.

With storage virtualization, you can aggregate your physical storage resources into storage pools from which virtual storage can be drawn. To help you control unwieldy storage growth requirements, better utilize your assets and leverage your centralized data protection systems, we can help you evaluate a broad range of options, including:

• Thin provisioning
• Automated storage tiering
• Data de-duplication
• File virtualization
• Continuous data protection