CIO’s Guide to Advanced Consolidation: How to Maximize the Data Center of the Future and Consolidate Completely Without Compromise
Consolidating and rationalizing IT infrastructure has been and will continue to be a dominant IT trend, particularly in an uncertain economy when organizations are looking to reduce the costs associated with operating their infrastructures. While many organizations have achieved some level of consolidation in the data center, analyst firm Forrester Consulting recently found that only 13 percent considered themselves fully consolidated to the data center, and only 8 percent fully consolidated within branch offices. Broader consolidation requires overcoming greater complexity, distance and latency, and traditional IT organizational silos. The benefits of a well-planned and executed consolidation approach, however, can extend beyond cost savings to include improved risk mitigation and efficiently.
Tackling Big Data with High-Performance Computing
For governments, Big Data can sometimes mean big challenges. This is particularly true for intelligence agencies, which gather more data than nearly any other organization. On any given day, intelligence operations may obtain terabytes (TB) or even petabytes (PB) of new information, including satellite imagery, recorded digital video, data from sensor arrays, and much more.
Optimization for Satellite WANs: Improve Performance and Reduce Bandwidth Costs
Satellite networking is an essential component of modern communications infrastructure for many government entities, international organizations, and civilian commercial enterprises. Whether for logistics operations, intelligence or simply as a backup to a terrestrial WAN, satellite communication transcends geographic and terrestrial infrastructure limitations to support these services.
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Cloud Storage with DDN WOS
Content intensive businesses and applications create unique and demanding challenges on storage and file systems. Consider that just a few short years ago it was practically unheard of for organizations to have file counts measured in the billions and content scaling from several hundred Terabytes to several Petabytes, while today it is becoming more and more commonplace. Historically, organizations would choose to archive a large percentage of their content on tape, but in today’s on-demand world this is not feasible. Users demand instantaneous access to their data, and will not tolerate the delays involved in restoring data from a tape vault. Aggravating the problem is the need to distribute the content among multiple data centers, either for disaster recovery or to place content at the network edge – close to the requesting users – to keep latency at a minimum. Now, the storage architect must deal with massive scale in multiple sites, and devise schemes to keep content synchronized between them. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) can help solve this problem for very frequently accessed content, but quickly become too expensive to aid in the distribution of content at Petabyte scale.
In this white paper we will explore the WOS solution and how it enables a variety of applications from web content delivery, to Defense Intelligence medical imaging systems, to media and entertainment, among others.
Any Threat, Anywhere, Anytime
The proliferation, management and analysis of intelligence data is a fast growing concern for Federal and Defense agencies. They are challenged with exponential data growth from a variety of sources: from satellites, to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), to increasingly higher-definition sensors installed on surveillance aircrafts. This new data class of machine-generated data is referred to as Big Data, and reflects datasets that are so large that it is beyond the ability of conventional hardware and software technology to effectively capture, store, administer and analyze. National defense agencies today are at the center of Big Data creation trend – and are increasingly challenged to manage infrastructure growth to scale with next-generation sensor data.
Federal Data Center Consolidation Playbook: A Resource For FDCCI Planning and Execution
Traditionally, federal government computing resources have been deployed at geographically distributed headquarters, data centers, and field offices to ensure end user performance and meet SLAs. The downsides are the inefficient use of energy and computing resources, as well as the expense and the difficulty of managing a large number of data centers. Information technology (IT) consolidation projects allow civilian, military and intelligence organizations to reduce the number of data centers to cut costs, promote green IT, increase security posture, shift IT funds to more efficient computing platforms, and boost productivity. The challenge is to consolidate without impeding performance for government employees and war-fighters.
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