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Guide to Reducing IT Costs Through Virtualization With Blades

Sun Microsystems
By : Sun Microsystems
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Published : Jan 11, 2010
Length : 12
Type : White Paper
 
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This free white paper from the experts at IDC posits solutions to the key problems posed by data center crowding: geometrically growing power and cooling costs; the spiraling cost of management; and the sheer number of server footprints. Learn how blade servers can help by drastically cutting energy costs, even over traditional rack-optimized servers-letting data centers surpass their old power and cooling "ceilings" while reducing overhead and staying green; cutting down on deployment time, repairs, monitoring, and management-by enabling a single point of management for all blades inside the same chassis; minimizing real estate requirements with a space-saving design; and even slashing operational costs by virtually eliminating unplanned downtime, with high availability and redundancy to minimize processing interruptions. Blade server architecture is optimized for the future of business. Download this free IDC white paper and discover what it can do for yours.
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Backup And Recovery , Blade Servers , Server Virtualization , Storage Area Networks , Storage Management , Storage Virtualization , System Management Software , Total Cost of Ownership
 
Sun Microsystems has a long history of engineering systems that are optimized for network-enabled workloads. In the age of blade servers, this is translating into new designs for network enablement that improve the rate at which data is transmitted to and from the blades themselves. Sun has innovated by developing a sophisticated shared network interface card (NIC) called the Sun Blade 6000 Virtualized Multi-Fabric 10GbE Network Express Module (Sun Blade Virtualized NEM), which takes the place of embedded physical switches within the blade platform — and speeds the performance of the system, especially for enterprise applications accessing large data sets. This white paper looks at ongoing customer requirements for server platforms and a number of pain points that have developed in recent years, as computer systems have become packed more densely within the datacenter. Power and cooling costs have risen at four times the growth rate of the actual costs of acquiring the servers themselves — and management costs have grown at eight times the acquisitionprice growth rate. Beyond that, the sheer number of server footprints has multiplied so quickly that the overall solution has become too complex to manage easily or costeffectively. Cabling for rack-optimized servers has also become tangled — figuratively and literally — meaning that any reduction in cabling would also improve operational efficiency. IT staffers managing servers in the datacenter have also grown weary of configuring many types of servers over and over — and they are looking for ways to visualize the entire big-picture view of physical servers and logical servers with a single-pane-ofglass view that speeds remediation of any configuration or management issues. Reducing IT staff time associated with routine maintenance and management tasks is another way to make operations more efficient and less costly. This IDC white paper describes new server blades from Sun Microsystems and a new shared NIC technology embedded within the Sun Blade Virtualized NEM, which are combined in a bladed server solution for the datacenter to address many of these operational issues. It also describes the competitive nature of the blade server segment, which continues to be one of the fastest-growing segments within the worldwide server market and has attracted the attention of some of the largest IT companies worldwide.
    
 
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