Exploring data center procurement decision-making virtualization management software and disaster recovery

Exploring data center procurement decision-making virtualization management software and disaster recovery

In the data center procurement decision-making series, in section 1 "exploring data center procurement decision-making"-blade servers and Software Defined network ", we introduced the IT administrator's decision-making on server and network facilities procurement and the influencing factors. Here is the second part. We will introduce the requirements of administrators for virtualization management software and disaster recovery during data center procurement.

What do virtualization management software have?

What will happen to your purchase list for virtualization management software?

According to the TechTarget cloud and virtualization Management Survey, 67% of IT and business experts hope that virtualization management software can monitor server availability. 56% of people want the software to monitor network performance and utilization, 54% want to manage system security, and 54% want the software to announce capacity planning, 51% of users want the software to manage configurations and changes and execute other tasks.

Among all the features expected, most people in the virtualization Procurement Team (47%) think that price is the main factor that determines their procurement decisions, followed by the performance and availability of the Management Console, and the compatibility of the virtualization platform (both 42% ).

No matter what features your virtualization management software provides, it does not seem to work without it. In the 924 surveys, only 19% of organizations do not have any virtualization management tools in their data centers.

Data center replication boosts the need to purchase disaster recovery

The IT team strives to maintain the maximum online duration of the load. when the service is disabled, the quality of the disaster recovery system directly determines the downtime of the fault and the impact on the workload.

TechTarget's Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity survey shows that 57% of disaster recovery procurement teams want remote copies or data synchronization between data centers. If the system is deprecated due to a power failure, it will affect all local servers and storage. Therefore, remote synchronization can save multiple backups outside the data center of the production environment.

Remote copying can rely on free data centers, self-owned equipment hosted on the site, or cold backup storage devices such as cabinets. Another solution is to use cloud backup to copy data to hosted cloud storage.

For IT merchants, the highly aggregated infrastructure box makes remote synchronization easier. Matt Huff, IT Director at accounting firm Tanner Co, pointed out that for small enterprises, deleting duplicate data and compression in highly aggregated infrastructure makes backup and recovery more important and less complex. The Tanner installed a remote SimpliVity OmniCube through host hosting for Remote Data Center backup, allowing the company to have hot data center backups. Huff called it "savings in network bandwidth ".

Finally, for networks, half of the data center administrators want to simplify network operations. In addition, IT will purchase cloud storage for some surprising reasons.