{"id":1647,"date":"2014-10-08T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/blogs\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2024-04-11T08:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T08:19:54","slug":"what-would-the-futuristic-datacenter-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/blogs\/what-would-the-futuristic-datacenter-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would The Futuristic Datacenter Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><div style=\"padding: 10px;\">There are some important, futuristic key trends going on in the industry right now, such as convergence, automation and cloud computing. As we understand, they will have a significant impact on how next- generation <a title=\"Date center\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/services\/infrastructure-management-Services\/cloud-management-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data centers<\/a> are deployed. Therefore, the following will potentially become common place in many organizations:<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 10px;\"><strong>Converged Stacks<\/strong>Purchasing a comprehensive stack of hypervisors and computers, storage devices and network resources from a single vendor eliminates many of the problems currently faced by IT departments and reaps the following benefits:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">No Inter- operability or firmware issues, as everything is designed to work in a compatible platform.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Perfect management of physical and virtual resources owing to single pane glass management.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">No blame- game between vendors as there is only a single point of support.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Deployment is possible within just weeks because of value analytics facilitation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Smart Storage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Creating a standalone high- performance storage solution is fairly easy to do these days in comparison to getting the solution to scale- up to meet the comprehensive needs of a modern business. Smart storage will scale without requiring a significant increase in operational costs and will provide considerable additional benefits such as below:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Virtualization of external storage \u2013 to enable a multi- vendor strategy to minimize costs and avoid islands of storage.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Smart pools \u2013 to automatically avoid hot- spots and place data on the most cost- effective tier. ( SSD or HDD)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Virtual machine level policies \u2013 to enhance snapshots, replication and performance.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Non- disruptive data movement \u2013 to enable migrations and workload mobility.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Non- disruptive upgrades \u2013 to significantly reduce time, risk and cost involved in deploying new equipments and systems.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">De- duplication and compression \u2013 to reduce the cost per TB.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Encryption of data at rest \u2013 to secure the most critical data.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Consistent performance \u2013 to ensure application service levels are met even during maintenance and replication processes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Active\/ Active Replication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Active\/ passive replication is no longer good enough to deliver the availability requirements of a modern 24\u00d77 business, the next generation of business continuity solutions will be based around an active\/ active architecture to enable:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Metro Clusters \u2013 to provide the benefits of virtualization across sites.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Network virtualization \u2013 to enable workload mobility, irrespective of any L3 constraints.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Active\/ Active data access \u2013 to provide continuous operations in the event of storage or site failure\/ maintenance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Replicated Storage with Integrated Backup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is tricky, as many organizations want an independent copy of the data rather than replicated snapshots for backup, but for customers who embrace snapshots, there are many benefits:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Instant backup and restore \u2013 as data does not need to move.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Multiple daily backups \u2013 to provide more recovery points.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Combined backup and DR \u2013 backup data is included in off- site replication.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Minimal tape backups \u2013 maybe once a month or possibly none at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Unified <a title=\"Data Protection\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/IT-security-services\/data-security-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Protection<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For organizations that are looking for a more conventional approach to data protection ( i.e. not one based on snapshots), there are considerable benefits to deploying a unified solution:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Consolidation \u2013 to manage backup, archiving, snapshots, storage resource management and search from a single product.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Reduce backup size \u2013 with the help of integrated file, NAS, Exchange, and <a title=\"SharePoint\" href=\"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/whitepapers\/How-to-Increase-User-Adoption-for-SharePoint-Sites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SharePoint<\/a> archiving.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Centralized backups \u2013 for remote offices and edge devices.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Manage array snapshots \u2013 to enable fast backups during the day, near instant recovery and off- line mining.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Easily find data \u2013 full text indexing of on- line, archive and backup copies.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">De- duplication everywhere \u2013 source, target and replication.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Backup- free Content Platforms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most people agree that archiving first has to be the way to go to resolve the challenge of having to backup more and more data, but archiving to a platform which still needs to be backed- up, does not entirely address the problem. This is where Content Platforms come in, they are a relatively newer and more efficient way to manage storage that provides many benefits:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Backup less \u2013 to enable faster backups and reduced cost.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Reduce primary storage \u2013 to save capacity and cost.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Enable compliance \u2013 to enforce both, retention and deletion policies.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Active data protection \u2013 key enabler for the backup- free architecture.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Efficient storage \u2013 using de- duplication and compression.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Massive scalability \u2013 to 10s or even 100s of PBs.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Easy to set-up and manage \u2013 at any scale.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Always on \u2013 non-disruptive expansions, upgrades and refreshes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Streamlined Management and Monitoring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having all this technology is great, but it has to be easy to manage and monitor with the key expectations being:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 10px;\">\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Minimal number of management frameworks \u2013 across all solution components.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Policy based automation \u2013 from virtual machine, through the network to the storage.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px;\">Service level monitoring \u2013 to rapidly identify when applications are short of resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Public Cloud Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to imagine that over the next 5- 10 years, most data centers will have disappeared and their applications, moved into the public cloud. On the other hand, the cloud is not likely to be obsolete and you can only see more use of cloud services over time.<\/p>\n<p>One good example of this is to leverage cloud storage services, such as Amazon S3\/ Glacier, along with an on- premise cloud storage gateway. This has all the same benefits as a Content Platform, but the data is held off- premise.<\/p>\n<p>So nothing radical, but hopefully a good summary of many of the core infrastructure technologies that will become common place in many data centers over the next 5 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-2\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"Like\" data-post-id=\"1647\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-heart\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">0    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some important, futuristic key trends going on in the industry right now, such as convergence, automation and cloud computing. 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