Where were you when infrastructure management became "hot"?
Imagine a future in which people ask the question, "Do you remember where you were when you realized that infrastructure management had become the hottest field in technology?"
Data center managers and IT staff have labored in obscurity for decades, safely tucked away in windowless server rooms, and finally we are getting our moment in the sun. VMware's IPO last week was the hottest tech offering since Google, HP recently acquired Opsware for $1.6 billion, and Citrix just purchased XenSource for $500 million. All of these deals were about improving the performance of the data center while putting IT managers in a position to adjust their infrastructure at a moment's notice.
So why has data center management become so hot? The answer is that a number of factors have begun to constrain the growth of traditional data centers, and IT managers are still grasping for solutions to overcome these challenges.
-- Power usage has skyrocketed, which is imposing significant costs, and, in some cases, restricting data center growth because companies lack the electrical infrastructure to bring more power into the data center. So companies will pay a premium for solutions that lower their power consumption while maintaining performance.
-- Environmental considerations are also important. Companies interested in reducing their carbon footprint are looking at the data center as a place to cut energy consumption. Noise in the data center is also an issues because of the safety and health concerns of IT operators.
-- Companies with data centers are focusing on the difficulty of rapid and reliable disaster recovery. Traditional backup-and-restore disaster recovery plans are insufficient for firms that rely on their data centers for mission-critical functions. These firms need to be confident that their IT systems will not suffer critical downtime in the event of a site failure - and they are looking for solutions that will help them meet this goal.
-- Data center management is becoming increasingly complex for companies that are unwilling to tie their data center to a specific vendor. Data centers that run multiple operating systems on multiple hardware platforms need third-party solutions to help them manage their infrastructure.
Scalent combats these problems by automating the process of server repurposing. This makes data centers easier to manage, improves the reliability of disaster recovery processes, raises IT utilization, and reduces power consumption. More and more companies are telling us that our ability to solve these problems is critical to their future growth.
So how are we at Scalent reacting to all the industry excitement? I like to think of my favorite Warren Buffett quote: "Get on the right train early." We got on the train early, and it looks increasingly like we got on the right one.
So if you're thinking about the same problems we're concerned with, why don't you give Scalent a call? Regardless of what the technological flavor of the day is, we're always looking for ways to make companies' data centers run more smoothly.
Data center managers and IT staff have labored in obscurity for decades, safely tucked away in windowless server rooms, and finally we are getting our moment in the sun. VMware's IPO last week was the hottest tech offering since Google, HP recently acquired Opsware for $1.6 billion, and Citrix just purchased XenSource for $500 million. All of these deals were about improving the performance of the data center while putting IT managers in a position to adjust their infrastructure at a moment's notice.
So why has data center management become so hot? The answer is that a number of factors have begun to constrain the growth of traditional data centers, and IT managers are still grasping for solutions to overcome these challenges.
-- Power usage has skyrocketed, which is imposing significant costs, and, in some cases, restricting data center growth because companies lack the electrical infrastructure to bring more power into the data center. So companies will pay a premium for solutions that lower their power consumption while maintaining performance.
-- Environmental considerations are also important. Companies interested in reducing their carbon footprint are looking at the data center as a place to cut energy consumption. Noise in the data center is also an issues because of the safety and health concerns of IT operators.
-- Companies with data centers are focusing on the difficulty of rapid and reliable disaster recovery. Traditional backup-and-restore disaster recovery plans are insufficient for firms that rely on their data centers for mission-critical functions. These firms need to be confident that their IT systems will not suffer critical downtime in the event of a site failure - and they are looking for solutions that will help them meet this goal.
-- Data center management is becoming increasingly complex for companies that are unwilling to tie their data center to a specific vendor. Data centers that run multiple operating systems on multiple hardware platforms need third-party solutions to help them manage their infrastructure.
Scalent combats these problems by automating the process of server repurposing. This makes data centers easier to manage, improves the reliability of disaster recovery processes, raises IT utilization, and reduces power consumption. More and more companies are telling us that our ability to solve these problems is critical to their future growth.
So how are we at Scalent reacting to all the industry excitement? I like to think of my favorite Warren Buffett quote: "Get on the right train early." We got on the train early, and it looks increasingly like we got on the right one.
So if you're thinking about the same problems we're concerned with, why don't you give Scalent a call? Regardless of what the technological flavor of the day is, we're always looking for ways to make companies' data centers run more smoothly.
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