With rising electricity bills and storage costs increasing 50 percent year-on-year, the current industry approach of having point solutions with different hardware, software and processes will not address concerns of a CIO. Speakers threw open the session on open source, conducted on the third and the final day of Interop Mumbai 2010, with this interesting information.
While speaking on how to improve the bottom line with unified storage, Surajit Sen, Director, Channels, Marketing and Alliances, NetApp India, offered, “Storage is a big cost challenge. And with de-duplication, thin provisioning, thin replication, virtual clones and double party RAID storage managers can boost efficiency of their existing setups, and reduce storage spending.”
Sharing case studies, he said that NetApp products increase the data storage capacity by as much as three times using such features.
Founded in 2005, Elliptical offers a unique product: self-contained racks with cooling, active-passive fire separation and cyber lock encryption. Likening them to a fridge, Sharad Srivastava, Country Manager, Elliptical, said, “Almost 73 percent of cooling efficiency is wasted in a traditional data center. Instead of a big room, one 19-inch rack that can fit in vendor neutral blade servers and can be relocated at will is now available.” He was talking on transforming IT with micro-modular data centers at Interop.
“The next generation of employees are bringing their apps into the enterprise and virtualized network infrastructure that is tightly coupled with platforms will be necessary to engage them,” said Ullal Bajaj, Director, Data, Avaya Asia-Pacific, speaking on new data center approaches. He added that Avaya’s Flare and the announcement of interoperability between VoIP service Skype and Avaya Unified Communication are steps in that direction.
“The shortest path bridging virtualized environments to create a flat network will drive operational savings for next generation virtualization,” Bajaj added.
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