Thread: Unified data centers

It means that any storage system enables management of different storage devices from a single console. As the growth in data center is much more compared to earlier years, multiple storage devices are found inside data centers. However, managing them is a great pain as there are separate management consoles to manage those devices. For example, earlier you had tape drive management solution which only allows you to manage tapedrives only or only HDD and not both. Both need,'ieparate pool to be installed inside data center.

Now enterprises are looking for a uni¬fied solution which can help managing them from a single console easily. Recently Sun launched'Sun Unified Storage System' which allows you to build a hybrid storage pool that might consists of DRAM, SSD's and HDD in the same sys¬tem. The best thing is that you can manage all these devices from a single console. It is said that, it will increase the performance and cut down the power con¬sumption by 80% compared to spinning disk.



Apart from cloud computing, there are modular data center which can be deployed virtually anywhere. You don't need any specialized room, cooling, raised tloor,etc to deploy it. This kind of solution is specially targeted to those who are in immediate need of a data center and don't have time to build it from scratch. This solution is ideal for enterprises ready to deploy new data center at some remote place with no infrastructure available. Such solutions are more customizable, and you can decide upon your investment and kind of configuration your require.