Software
Why is software important to your storage and data center solution?
Information drives your business. Everything about your company - product development, sales, relationship management, marketing, competitive analysis, investor relations, finance, human resources and so on - is managed through the information unique to your business. The success and viability of your business hinge on your ability to safeguard that information and keep it available throughout your enterprise at all times; in other words, to protect the integrity of your vital business information.
Disaster recovery plays a vital role in keeping information safe and available. However, the exponential growth rate of data volumes, shrinking backup windows, the demand for more effective change management and the need for fast, reliable recovery create stiff challenges for disaster recovery efforts. Today's solutions must offer both best-of-breed data protection and best-of-breed system recovery.
An essential part of such a solution is granular data protection. Businesses can't afford to waste valuable time and resources restoring a complete data volume or database when all a user needs is a single file or e-mail message.
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Virtualization
Virtualization is an abstraction layer that allows multiple virtual machines, with heterogeneous operating systems to run in isolation, side-by-side on the same physical machine. By decoupling the physical hardware from the operating system, virtualization allows you to:
- Run multiple virtual machines with heterogeneous operating systems at the same time on the same physical machine
- Create fully configured isolated virtual machines with it's own set of virtual hardware to run an operating system and applications
- Rapidly save, copy and provision virtual machines that can be moved from one physical server to another for workload consolidation and zero downtime maintenance
Today's IT organizations face the costly management of server sprawl. This includes the hardware, maintenance and people resources needed to manage, operate and administer those servers on a daily basis. VMware server consolidation and containment solutions allow enterprises to enable workload isolation and granular resource control for all of the system's computing and I/O resources.
Using virtual infrastructure to consolidate physical systems in the data center, enterprises experience:
- Lower total cost of ownership of servers
- Higher server utilization
- Increased operational efficiency
VMware business continuity solutions support enterprises in their strategy for maximum uptime of business critical systems. Data centers worldwide need to manage both their planned and unplanned downtime. Whether you are scheduling standard maintenance or responding the external failures, VMware allows you to maximize your revenue earning uptime.
VMware infrastructure makes traditional clustering, failover and recovery plans more robust. A VMware infrastructure also increases the flexibility of servers and decreases the time and costs associated with implementing and managing these servers.
IT Managers implementing virtual infrastructure for business continuity can realize:
- Faster, more flexible, and more reliable disaster recovery at a lower cost
- Significant reductions in planned and unplanned downtime
- Simplified and repeatable processes for implementing business continuity solutions
Storage Management
Storage management provides a complete solution for heterogeneous online storage management. These solutions offer a standard set of integrated tools to centrally manage explosive data growth, maximize storage hardware investments, provide data protection and adapt to changing business requirements.
Key Benefits
- Increase storage utilization across heterogeneous operating systems and storage arrays.
- Increase operational efficiency with comprehensive visibility and centralized management of applications, servers and storage across multiple hosts.
- Enhance storage I/O path availability and performance and efficiently spread I/O across multiple paths.
- Free data from technology changes - dynamically migrate data to different tiers of storage and perform seamless data migrations across different server architectures.
Data Protection
Data protection scales to protect the largest Unix, Windows, Linux and NetWare environments. Backup and Restore Software offers complete protection from the desktop to the data center, as well as offering a single console for management of all backup and recovery operations.
Key Benefits
- Allows an administrator to view and enable all backup and recovery operations from a single console, regardless of geographic location.
- Offers data protection for environments that span across multiple platforms, databases, applications, devices and architectures.
- Enables the use of both disk and tape for backup and leverages a scalable 3-tier architecture.
- Provides options for advanced disaster recovery, snapshot backup, encryption and NAS protection.
Server Management
Discover server and software configurations, dynamically map dependencies and track changes in real time. Provides visibility into the IT environment, pinpoint changes, minimize application downtime and resolve problems faster.
Key Benefits
- Ensure the integrity of servers and software with reliable inventory information.
- Expedite problem resolution by immediately understanding what has changed in the environment.
- Proactively reduce downtime caused by change with accurate impact analysis.
- Improve data center management through standardization and by controlling configuration drift.
Application Performance
Application performance management solutions help optimize the performance and availability of enterprise applications. Utilizing multiple technologies, our solutions can help correct performance problems before they affect your business.
ERP & CRM
Improve end user response time by proactively monitoring, analyzing and tuning ERP and CRM applications.
Database & Storage
Improve end user response time by proactively monitoring, analyzing and tuning database and storage applications.
Web & Middleware
Improve end user response time by proactively monitoring, analyzing and tuning Web and middleware applications.
Application Reliability
Manage the health of your enterprise applications and take a proactive approach to application availability by monitoring critical business transactions and service levels.
If you need help building the right solution, contact our Network Storage Specialists or call your Zones Account Executive.
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