Worldwide users generate 161 billion exabytes of digital data and by 2010 this number will increase six fold.
Storage Costs Continue to Rise
In today’s business environment an organisations’ storage, data and operational technologies must be managed cost-effectively. But infrastructure management and storage costs are escalating, and growing compliance requirements surrounding data mean there’s no easy way to classify and categorise information. For cash-strapped IT departments, that means fire-fighting rather than innovating. However the dangers of taking a solely reactive approach are:
- inadequate data protection
- lack of expertise
- inefficient operations
- increased costs
- and a frazzled IT department.
The challenge which faces many organisations is a strategic one. Incoperating longer term storage plans, working in-sync with other technologies, without compromising on data security, requires both an understanding of the company’s needs coupled with an expertise of available storage solutions.
Is Virtualisation the Silver Bullet?
Gartner has suggested that for organisations, virtualisation will be the highest impact trend, changing infrastructure towards 2012. Many organisations are going down the virtualisation route, either for storage flexibility, labour or cost saving reasons. Get it right and the rewards from virtualisation are many and varied. Get it wrong and your costs and infrastructure could spiral out of control.
Virtualisation is changing your IT operations and infrastructure for good reasons. Lower management costs, reduced energy usage and centralized management are just a few of the many benefits of a virtual infrastructure. Gone are the days of deploying and managing apps on individual devices in multiple locations. Today's smartest and most competitive companies have turned to application virtualisation to provide centralized, fast and secure delivery to every user, anywhere. From desktop to server, Trustmarque provides heterogeneous Virtualisation Management solutions so you can realize the benefits of a virtual environment. From physical-to-virtual conversion through monitoring and management to backup and recovery, Trustmarque Solutions provide skill in automating and controls IT processes in your virtual environment to lower costs and simplify ongoing management.
What Is Application Virtualization?
Application virtualization is an umbrella term that describes software technologies that improve portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. A fully virtualized application is not installed in the traditional sense, although it is still executed as if it is. The application is fooled at runtime into believing that it is directly interfacing with the original operating system and all the resources managed by it, when in reality it is not. Application virtualization differs from operating system virtualization in that in the latter case, the whole operating system is virtualized rather than only specific applications.
