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Unified Management

Unified Management: Unified management no longer means you have to manage and protect your physical and virtual infrastructure and applications separately. By bringing together virtual and physical infrastructure management, unified management platforms enable organizations to consolidate IT process and streamline operations. This in turn allows IT organizations to use commodity off the shelf hardware components create integrated continuity and disaster recovery services that bridge the gap between virtualization and physical infrastructure. (Source: www.egenera.com)

The Case for Converged Infrastructure

Section: Research

The natural evolution of virtualization and server management has led to what industry experts call converged infrastructure (CI). Forrester defines it as: “…a pooled and virtualized combination of servers, edge networking, and storage, with built-in virtualization abstractions for the physical layer of infrastructure (not to be confused with hypervisor-type virtual machines) and integrated management. CI implies the ability to pool resources, stream ... read more

Converged Infrastructure Perception Doesn’t Match Reality

Section: Articles

Disruptive technologies like converged infrastructure (CI) tend to deliver two things: The reality of dramatic and positive changes to the business model, and an extraordinary amount of hype and misunderstanding. First the reality—converged infrastructure is indeed a game-changer, and succeeds in achieving high levels of energy efficiency, superior manageability, and lower cap-ex as a result of increased density and a smaller footprint requirement. Any enterprise planning a major infrastructure ... read more

Is your IT budget innovating, or just keeping the lights on?

Section: Articles

Purveyors of information technology, particularly nimble start-ups created by still-idealistic innovators and entrepreneurs, tell us that their new inventions hold great promise for changing the way we do things. Although that message typically comes from their PR consultants, it nonetheless rings true, and many technological innovations such as cloud computing, virtualisation, and converged infrastructure models do indeed bring about disruptive change. And i ... read more

Better Together - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure deployment with Egenera

Section: Articles

The rewards of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment naturally start with, from the point of view of the end user, increased mobility between, better access to information, and more flexibility in access device type (PC’s, notebooks, Mac, Smartphones and Tablets). From the perspective of IT, VDI promises reduced costs thus boosting the bottom line and making IT look like heroes. This is the nirvana of virtually every corporation in the world. And while the ben ... read more

Building a Reliable and Dynamic Data Centre

Section: Research

Today’s demands on the data centre have created an environment of escalating complexity and cost. As a result the simplification of data centre management has become the mantra of every organisation. Concurrently, with the advent of the cloud, requirements for business continuity through disaster recovery and high availability are increasingly becoming business critical requirements. As such, customers desire open software solutions that simplify IT, enable th ... read more

Data centre automation is becoming the norm

Section: News

Data centre automation is quickly becoming the cornerstone of modern IT infrastructure and more than a third of the businesses that Information Week recently surveyed claimed they are already using automation technology. The news provider also found that of the 345 companies it quizzed about virtualization and read more

Fujitsu and Egenera Agree Reseller Deal for PAN Manager

Section: News

Companies join forces to modernise data centres with converged infrastructure. Leading converged infrastructure provider Egenera has teamed up with Fujitsu Technology Solutions who will resell and support Egenera's PAN Manager on the Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 blade server platform. The agreement is intended to offer businesses an improved, more cost-effective infrastructure solution, wh ... read more

The Future of Cloud Computing: Unified Management and Automation

Section: Research

Tight budgets, outages in services and competitive pressures are leading to increasing numbers of organisations to adopt agile IT environments, namely deploying and managing resources more flexibly and cost effectively. This tension is creating a demand for highly automated unified management solutions to manage consolidated and increasingly dynamic IT operations in a unified way. Unified Manage ... read more