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Keeping track of your virtual data center

 

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Is your data center helping or hurting you?

With new technologies in play, overseeing the daily operations of your data center can be complex. Learn how the network of choice can provide the visibility you need.

IT organizations are faced with the pressing challenge of supporting business growth and innovation. To shift the focus from maintenance and management towards the projects and initiatives that support competitiveness and promote growth, businesses are looking at virtualization for improved resource utilization and flexibility.

As new technologies emerge, overseeing the daily operations of the data center has become extremely challenging. While embracing these new changes is integral to maintain growth, the evolving data center landscape presents an inherent need to maintain visibility. Though this may seem simple, data center visibility depends heavily on your infrastructure design and its priority among data center initiatives. With this capability, businesses are able to thwart potential problems and manage operations effectively. To ensure an optimized data center, there are four important factors to consider:

4 Keys to a next-generation data center

  • Explore new technology: The data center landscape is constantly evolving with new and innovative technologies to improve efficiency and promote manageable growth. Virtualization in the data center can offer unparalleled flexibility and response time, but challenges existing organizational paradigms and drives the need for automation.
  • Understand potential failures: Be aware of the potential of failure domains and understand that this risk can increase with new technologies (e.g. converged Ethernet and storage).
  • Design for visibility: Chose a solution that provides the greatest level of visibility into underlying operations. Visibility is a key to troubleshooting and response time in a dynamic data center environment.
  • Build processes for operational efficiency: Conduct regular capacity planning activities in order to keep ahead of enterprise application growth and virtualization sprawl in a dynamic environment.

Business challenges ahead

Today, CIO's and data center managers are faced with a rapidly evolving technology landscape that promises even greater flexibility to the enterprise. While exploring these opportunities, they must be weighed against the need to optimize and provide operational efficiencies in a challenging economic climate and a market undergoing fundamental shifts in utility cost structure. In order to address these challenges, data center initiatives and solution are emerging in four main areas:
  • Data center consolidation
  • Energy and space efficiency
  • Data center automation
  • Business continuity and availability
The ProCurve Adaptive Network architecture supports these initiatives, aligning business needs and technology capabilities. This approach enables organizations to streamline and simplify network architecture, making provisioning, monitoring, and management easier, leaving organizations poised and ready to respond to business needs.

The data center simplified

Aligned with HP's data center transformation initiatives, HP ProCurve Networking‘s data center solutions are based on the Adaptive Networks vision – that networks boost competitiveness, fortify security, increase productivity and reduce complexity by being adaptive to users, applications and organizations' needs. Our broad portfolio provides a choice of adaptive enterprise solutions that reduce the complexity of network management and helps you manage operational costs through resilient end-to-end connectivity and automated provisioning technologies.

HP ProCurve's data center solutions provides consistency and interoperability across existing network investments and leverages the capabilities of our application providers to help improve performance and manage cost. Supporting facility cooling architectures and virtualization compatible automated provisioning methodologies, our data center solutions promote higher server utilization rates to drive operational efficiencies through optimization of rack space and energy costs.