Managing an enterprise data center today presents extreme challenges. As most companies, you are experiencing tremendous growth coupled with the multiple challenges from both an operational and financial perspective.
How to evolve in spite of stagnant budgets?
Optimizing your IT and helping it evolve is part of the solution that decision-makers are looking for today. How can you support new strategic initiatives and provide quick responses and agility?
Until now, data center infrastructure management has been viewed as a hardware issue, but the challenge today is not with hardware, it’s more about all the data that is managed, monitored and analyzed.
Connectivity between all the systems inside the center is now part of the game and the solution.
A data-driven, connected view of a data center enables operators
to realize the capacity they need in order to help their organizations effectively grow their businesses and to ensure their data centers are yielding optimal results.
Today, enterprises require a simplified architecture that allows IT the use of common tools, products, protocols and standards across the whole network infrastructure, reducing cost and risk without sacrificing flexibility and agility.
This sentiment is reinforced by some thoughts from Gartner, “IT organizations must focus on data center architecture to keep the business running. Optimal data center design ensures smooth IT operations, high availability, security, network connectivity, and energy efficiency.”
I found this in depth study about Efficiency and resiliency for your Oracle deployment with IBM PureFlex System. The findings about real-world impact on business on a few converged infrastructure solutions such as Cisco, Oracle, HP and IBM are a great reference.
You can read the Executive Summary for a high level view of the study, or download the Supercharge Oracle Products with PureFlex Systems Full Report for all the details.
I really hope this information will help you make sound, safe, risk-minimized, and well-informed decisions for your data center.
To find out more about Converged Solutions, don’t hesitate to consult with us.
Roger Osmond, President
Sentia