Consolidation V. 2010

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Red Carpet: VMware with IBM BladeCenter S

The challenge: More with less

Many companies are searching for new technologies and strategies to simplify their IT and reduce their IT-related costs. Until recently, the IT infrastructure of companies has usually been limited for budget and space reasons.

A virtualised IT infrastructure is able to provide you with significant advantages - among others, IT consolidation, reduced and from a single source. IBM and VMware make things easy for you. They offer a cost-efficient entry into the virtualised IT world for small to medium-sized companies with VMware ESX4 hypervisor, installed on one or more powerful IBM BladeCenter HS22 XM Bladeservers in a BladeCenter S chassis.

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Oracle Solaris

The next generation of Solaris operating systems, "Solaris 10", demonstrates what can be achieved through innovative development. The step towards opening the Solaris operating system to the OpenSource community allows users to take advantage of an open, future-proof operating system of the same quality and certification.

Server - Disk Virtualisation

ervers do not require hard disks! Let your SAN store critical operating systems. Today's iSCSI technology allows you to let your server take over computing. This saves space and reduces Maintenance.

In the near future, the connection between hard disk and server will already be part of the past. The main manufacturers such as NetApp, SUN or IBM, who offer secure SAN units with improved scalability, allow direct connection of servers to the SAN via iSCSI or FiberChannel (FC) without the need for proprietary disks.

Central Data Storage

The common practice 30 years ago of many users working on one server seemed to come to an end in the age of the PC. Today, like in former times, the opportunity is there again to exploit those same advantages offered by a central architecture and, moreover, to make great cost savings. It is even possible to centralise the familiar graphic user interface and the typical applications. Current technology offers users even higher performance and greater mobility as regards workplace and data.