Virtualisation is without doubt the most important trend today when it comes to cost saving, efficiency improvement and increased flexibility in the IT infrastructure of organisations. One strength of virtualisation is that resources such as servers or storage are deployed optimally and efficiently due to the abstraction of hardware and software being severed. This applies to all forms of virtualisation, whether, servers, applications, files, storage or the desktop.
In virtualisation, we create a form of mobility which considerably enhances the flexibility of the IT infrastructure. This enables us, for example, to transfer an IT service partially or completely to the cloud. The traditional and often costly infrastructures based on silos can then make room for uniform infrastructures that can be used for the entire organisation. Moreover, this mobility and flexibility makes it simple to respond to changing demands and wishes.
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Flexible infrastructures must of course be able to maximise the possibilities of virtualisation. Data management plays a crucial role here. Data management techniques determines the success of a virtualisation project to a great degree. Moreover, that applies not only to server virtualisation for example, but also to virtualisation of the desktop.
Performance, in particular plays an important role in storage and virtualisation and is often the key to success. Due to the storage infrastructure being shared by a number of servers, applications and users in virtualisation, it is very difficult to predict the load and therefore the required performance of the storage (unpredictable workload).
Databasement has the knowledge, expertise and tools, together with the innovative technologies in her portfolio, to handle this as no other. Databasement's data management technologies are optimised for virtualised infrastructures and have functionalities that increase cost efficiency of virtualisation such as thin provisioning, de-duplication, compression, cloning, security, auto-tiering and more.
With virtualisation, organisations often unknowingly opt for a storage approach that entirely cancels out the cost benefits of virtualisation. The data management platform selected must contain all the required characteristics for an efficient deployment of a virtualised infrastructure. The choice of the right data management platform is critical for an efficient deployment . Databasement has vast experience in this area, not only with internal Cloud deployments, but also with the many external projects carried out for clients.
Databasement makes technological choices for data management which are often based on innovation but which have already proven their full worth in practice. For example, we offer (among others) 3PAR (recently acquired by HP) and NetApp: the two most important storage technologies for virtualised infrastructures. Correct application of these technologies leads to amazing cost savings and efficiency improvements.
Together with our technology partners, we have developed a data management approach optimised for virtualisation (Virtualisation Optimised Storage). In combination with data centre transformation, data protection and data movement, Databasement has all the tools required to design and implement the very best infrastructure. This optimised approach is applied both in projects for organisations and for cloud services.
