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Q
With the credit crunch These type of scenarios need The second is consolidation,
having a significant impact on to be addressed before which uses a different
all businesses, do you see a implementation. technique to achieve the
1-2-1
growing interest in IT asset same ends as virtualisation –
and, specifically, storage
Q
If businesses are looking more efficient use of a
optimisation? at some kind of a technology hardware resource. Bringing
A
Absolutely, even before refresh, presumably technologies all the hardware resources
the global economy took a and issues such as tiered under common management
nosedive, organisations were storage, data centre and control, allows unused
starting to look for the best consolidation, virtualisation resources in one area to be
way to re-utilise their pre- and energy efficiency need to deployed in support of other
existing storage capabilities. be on the agenda? areas. When virtualisation
But now, with the increased
A
Whenever a technology and consolidation are
financial pressures and the refresh is being contemplated, implemented at the same
popularity of techniques such it is increasingly essential that time, the combined effect is
NICK MOGLIA
as Server Consolidation, and the potential for greater to not only create efficiency of
Virtualisation, making the efficiency is at the forefront. usage but also the flexibility
most of your existing storage This is important as the to deploy and redeploy
assets has become a top operational costs of hardware assets to meet
business priority. equipment can extend over a changing business needs.
long period, eclipsing the The third area is making sure
Q
What do businesses have initial capital purchase costs. that data is stored efficiently.
to consider when they Consolidation and Purchasing more and more
address the issue of storage virtualisation both contribute storage devices just to store
optimisation before making to enhanced energy and duplicated data is highly
any potential investment? management efficiency, but inefficient. However, the cost
A
Businesses need to start these need to be considered of manually erasing
by developing an in the wider context of overall duplicated data is prohibitive
understanding of how they data centre efficiency. The - so an automated capability
can make better use of ability to communicate the such as de-duplication can be
existing capacity. They need implications of a capital deployed to increase the
to know what data they expenditure decision on the efficiency of the storage
already have and how it is long term operating costs of a capacity consumed by
used – this understanding is data centre, are part of the secondary storage. The less
crucial. Once an organisation professional services hardware resources deployed,
has recognised this, they capability that value added the greater the power
need to evaluate what distributors like Zycko can efficiency and the greater the
technologies are available, bring to both their channel operational savings.
and there are several options. partners and ultimately the
They will directly cut end user. Understanding these
expenditure on additional technologies and techniques
hardware, and indirectly by
Q
Can you expand a little bit and how their deployment,
reducing the man-hours on some of these key areas? individually or in concert,
required to monitor and
A
There are several strands can contribute to each
maintain the new equipment. to this: customer environment, requires
What is often missed is The first is of course how we a professional services approach
how you then manage these get better value from a which a value added
new technologies: for hardware resource and in this distributor is capable of
example, in a virtualised area virtualisation of both deploying in support of both
environment, how do you servers and storage are a key its channel partners and their
manage your back-up? element. customers.
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