Intelligent Storage Solutions: The Cloud and Today's IT Environment
The storage industry is heating up as a result of the globalization of markets and the increasing dependence on electronic communication, exponential data growth (especially machine-generated data), new regulatory requirements for protecting and retaining data, and reliance on data to differentiate and grow business value. In response, the following trends continue to emerge that are influencing technology and business storage:
• Adoption of virtualization
• Energy and cost conservation
• New use cases
• New types of data
• Serverization
These business and technology trends have created new challenges for solution providers. Products have to address more complex industry requirements and need to be delivered in a timely manner to stay ahead of the competition. This Technology Spotlight examines the challenges faced by solution providers related to the aforementioned storage technology trends, the benefits to organizational business value, and how the combined expertise, storage technology, and resources of Intel and Xyratex support these industry trends in meeting the demands of the ever-changing storage market.
Adoption of Virtualization
Server virtualization has enabled organizations to consolidate physical servers, improve utilization of resources, improve time to market, and reduce application downtime. In turn, it has placed additional demands on storage systems. Environments with large virtualization deployments struggle with storage growth, consistent performance, and management complexity. Often, storage is what precludes the timely deployment of new virtual machines and new applications. To address these challenges, storage solution providers must ensure that their systems are easier to manage and more resilient, support dynamic workloads and enable consistent performance, and take advantage of innovations and improvements in hardware, processors, and memory.
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Intelligent Storage Solutions: The Cloud and Today's IT Environment
The storage industry is heating up as a result of the globalization of markets and the increasing dependence on electronic communication, exponential data growth (especially machine-generated data), new regulatory requirements for protecting and retaining data, and reliance on data to differentiate and grow business value. In response, the following trends continue to emerge that are influencing technology and business storage:
• Adoption of virtualization
• Energy and cost conservation
• New use cases
• New types of data
• Serverization
These business and technology trends have created new challenges for solution providers. Products have to address more complex industry requirements and need to be delivered in a timely manner to stay ahead of the competition. This Technology Spotlight examines the challenges faced by solution providers related to the aforementioned storage technology trends, the benefits to organizational business value, and how the combined expertise, storage technology, and resources of Intel and Xyratex support these industry trends in meeting the demands of the ever-changing storage market.
Adoption of Virtualization
Server virtualization has enabled organizations to consolidate physical servers, improve utilization of resources, improve time to market, and reduce application downtime. In turn, it has placed additional demands on storage systems. Environments with large virtualization deployments struggle with storage growth, consistent performance, and management complexity. Often, storage is what precludes the timely deployment of new virtual machines and new applications. To address these challenges, storage solution providers must ensure that their systems are easier to manage and more resilient, support dynamic workloads and enable consistent performance, and take advantage of innovations and improvements in hardware, processors, and memory.
Read the full Intelligent Storage Solutions: The Cloud and Today's IT Environment.
