Data Center Technologies
BlueWater is the rare network solution provider that has deep data center expertise. Even before Cisco Systems Inc. announced its ambitious Data Center 3.0 strategy in mid-2007, BlueWater was helping its strategic clientele to consolidate, virtualize and simplify their data centers and related applications.
Major companies such as Intel say they expect to save about $1.8 billion through data center virtualization and consolidation activities. BlueWater has mastered many of those money-saving technologies and techniques. In fact, our experts have been driving major data center decisions for more than a decade. Explore the technologies that support the data center architectures and Data Center 3.0:
Virtualization
Virtualization has evolved from the traditional virtualization of servers, to a complete virtualization of your data center (network, storage, server, desktop, application.) Virtualization of your data center improves efficiency and availability of all components, ensuring that your business operates effectively.
Our strategic data center guidance can help you on your path to a transformation to a virtualized data center. Go green, reduce your energy bills, and consolidate your physical servers onto virtualized systems. Our track record for success speaks for itself: During one recent customer engagement, we consolidated a data center from more than 250 servers down to fewer than 70.
Unified Compute
Data center virtualization has created a market transition where IT organizations are trying to reduce costs and increase flexibility. Constantly working against inflexible existing hardware platforms, however, data center administrators must spend significant time on manual procedures for basic tasks instead of focusing on more strategic initiatives.
The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that:
- Unites computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system
- Integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gb Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers
Storage
If you’re a typical business, your storage requirements will double every 12 months, according to Network Magazine. But if you’re a progressive company that has embraced IP video and other rich services, your storage requirements could grow even faster.
Are your business processes, applications and underlying infrastructure prepared for exponential data growth? To find out, ask about BlueWater Communications Group’s Enterprise Storage Assessment and Strategy Development program. The program helps organizations to proactively manage their data growth, while maximizing the performance of data-dependent applications.
Disaster Recovery
Unfortunately in today's society, disaster's occur and are not limited to hardware failures. Organizations need comprehensive contingency and disaster recovery plans to keep their businesses responsive – even during a crisis.Whether it is a terrorist attack, an earthquake, a power outage, BlueWater understands these events and has devised strategies to ensure businesses stay operational despite the unforeseen circumstances.