Utility Storage for Virtual and Cloud Computing

Grazed from DataCenter Knowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

Today’s IT environment is being built around direct efficiencies. This means better resource utilization, improved monitoring, and the consolidation of enterprise systems. Many organizations are building a business around an efficient and well-controlled IT environment. The idea is to create an IT as a service model where administrators can allow for self-provisioned services and automation to help control administrative overhead.

This is where technologies around the converged infrastructure can really help. Intelligent storage systems can help an organization cut costs and control very vital resources. In HP’s whitepaper, we learn how utility storage creates a unified platform for efficiency and growth. Directly modeled for the needs of virtualization and cloud computing, HP’s converged storage infrastructure leads to three very direct benefits:…

• Distributed environment multi-tenancy
• Geographical resource federation
• Cloud, virtualization, and data center efficiency

Furthermore, converged systems add a lot more than advanced functionality. With the idea to simplify the IT environment, using converged storage platform helps with both easy of management and agility. Now, administrators are able to control logical storage segments while still being flexible with the entire organization…

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