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Data center and Storage Solutions
Sunday, April 9, 2023
DATA CENTERS
The Need
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Every organization is under pressure to accomplish more with less resources (financial, technologically, and human capital)
Many are finding that specific targets for reduction have been set, especially in the near term
Server and storage growth do not appear to be keeping pace with economic times – in some cases, the needs for technology are on the rise
Server sprawl continues in a lot of cases – even with virtualized servers
The impact of storage growth is stressing backup and recovery subsystems and the frequency of missed backup windows remains for many
The typical data center will run out of power and cooling – many already have
Facilities and IT continue to struggle with an integrated capacity planning approach
Disaster recovery is something most organizations “hope” they can achieve, but wouldn’t want to test it
Each of these areas require attention, but in today’s economic times, how do you prioritize?
Data Center Components
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People & Process
Servers
Storage
Backup
NetworkSecurity
Power & Cooling
Management
Infrastructure
Data Centres
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Data Center Infrastructure
Data Centers are valuable resources as they get close to capacity those resources must be carefully managed
Infrastructure includes
•Racks
•Switches and switch ports
•VLANs
•Patch panels and cables (of all types)
•Power utilization and monitoring
•Generators
•High voltage power components
•HVAC components
By accurately tracking the usage of systems and their placement in the data center we can ensure that overload conditions do not occur
BMS
IBM Ethernet Product Families
IBM m-series Ethernet/IP routers IBM s-series Ethernet switches
IBM c-series Ethernet switches IBM g-series Ethernet switches
IPv4 & IPv6 options, L2, L3 & POE upgradeableIPv4/IPv6, Full L2/L3, POS/SDH, MPLS, Carrier-grade QoS
L2, L3 upgradeable, high-performance Metro access switch L2 edge switch, POE & stacking options
Taking the next step, this functionality can now span data centers
Geo-failover without geo-clusters
Complexity of failover is nearly eliminated
Leveraging the same infrastructure and storage functionality without extra software licensing and other overhead
RTOs and RPOs are achieved without fully redundant servers and DR state doesn’t have to sacrifice availability due to diminished configurations
Disaster Recovery
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Physical Hardware
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Physical Server_A
Physical Server_C
Physical Server_B
Servers are no longer always physical assets, they become instances that exist at a particular location and time
Originally, this portability enabled workload management within a data center
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Primary Site Tertiary SiteDR Site
• Drive Out Cost:– Lower CapEx– Reduce OpEx
• Unified Communications:– Collaboration– VoIP– Rich media
• Operational Simplicity
Business Drivers
• Intelligent Edge:– Auto-configuration– Self-managing
• High-Performance Core:– High density– Power efficiency– Redundancy
• Unified Management
Technology Enablers
Value Proposition
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VIRTUALIZATION
An example is Cloud Computing
Data center and Storage Solutions
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Kristopher T Domich – Principal [email protected]
+1.703.932.1848
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