Mobile data creation: driving efficient it in the virtual age

It has officially entered the era of virtualization and cloud computing after experiencing the mainframe age, the PC era, and the internet age. Whether it's IDC, Gartner, or ESG or Forrester, these renowned research organizations believe that the future it core strategy for the enterprise lies in virtualization and cloud computing. After years of it construction, users have generally found that their own it has these deficiencies: IT infrastructure is not flexible, IT resources use efficiency, IT management costs are high, it into the virtualization era this essentially reflects the users of IT resources to use high efficiency of the strong demand.

Figure I: 2010 research reports by ESG, a renowned research institute, show that 61% of users are using it in production, or using server virtualization in production, test/development environments, and that the report actually shows that data centers are becoming virtualized and that users have to face the advent of the virtual age.

Efficient it to ensure enterprise competitiveness

Looking back on the development of these more than 20 years, we have to affirm the fact that it is carrying and supporting more and more businesses, even pushing the industry forward. One of the simplest examples: in the past, hospitals prescribe procedures such as orders, fees, dispensing, and so on, and today's hospitals need it to support all aspects of medical care, care, finance, monitoring and administration. It makes the business process of the user more accurate and fast, but it is a double-edged sword, traditional it in the product, technology and policy constraints too much, resulting in the user's IT resources can not be fully utilized, it investment does not get a reasonable return. In this increasingly competitive era, enterprises are facing the changing needs of the market, the need for more efficient it to ensure competitiveness, and not let it become a drag on the development of the enterprise's hind legs.

The special needs of enterprises to think about are:

• Is your business satisfied with it construction?

• Does your organization have an efficient IT strategy?

• What is the status of information and data in your business?

• Have you ever considered translating information and data from the operational burden into useful strategic assets?

Figure II: Garnter reports that virtualization and cloud computing is the focus of CIO2011 years of technology, from the figure we can see that from 2008 onwards, virtualization technology has become the CIO's most concerned about the technology, but also from the side reflects the enterprise's desire for efficient it!

IdM translates data from operational burdens into useful strategic assets

These problems not only need users to think and practice, but also need it vendors to move and promote. Whether virtualization or cloud computing, the essence of the user's various physical resources from a relatively static state full of "movement" up to a dynamic equilibrium state, so as to achieve efficient use of resources. Further excavation, we will find this efficient it is the ideal state to return to the data, whether it is a variety of virtual machines, operating systems, or ERP, database applications, the final need to landing on the data. Dell's Intelligent Data management strategy (IDM) is a timely way to capture the nature of the problem, and the IdM strategy enables a high degree of consistency between business process and application support through a suite of hardware and software solutions and service architectures that help the enterprise achieve optimal balance between storage infrastructure cost-effectiveness, performance, and scalability.

Figure three: Intelligent Data management Strategy (IDM) is superior to the full range of process application support, enabling the enterprise to achieve optimal balance between cost, performance and extended requirements.

The IDM policy has an effective storage infrastructure, a mobile data architecture, and a service core, designed to enable enterprise data to flow efficiently and manage data in an automated and intelligent manner. The current user is in fact very much in need of a solution that enables data automation and intelligent flow, because it is difficult for users to spend more manpower and resources to judge:

• What are active data?

• What are inactive data data?

• When does active data become inactive?

• When does inactive data become active?

• How much storage capacity should the active data allocate?

• Efficiently retrieve and query data?

Therefore, the solution that the user needs is to be able to connect the data with various departments of the enterprise, in order to handle the data in an automated and intelligent way, so that the data can be used by the users at the right time and place. For example, for college network teaching, can be based on the network classroom, multimedia courseware On demand, network questions, air classrooms and other systems to automatically schedule data, so that each application data can be in the right place to provide the most efficient service. Dell believes that, in addition to providing the right level of storage and protection for different value data, the flow data also need to do capacity optimization, automation management, information retrieval and delivery: the flow of data content-aware de-duplication and compression, in order to reduce the flow of data transmission, improve the efficiency of data recovery; The metadata that contains data content and context is available in all storage points (ingestion Points), automated policies and data transfer engines enable users to automate management, and relying on metadata for enterprise-level data allocation and subsequent searches, enterprises can deliver information to different regions, End users with different devices.

Summary: The virtual era of mobile data to help achieve efficient it

Today is an era of information expansion, the traditional it this "passive" approach has become increasingly difficult to meet the virtual era of enterprise changing business needs, and gradually hindered the development of enterprises. Mobile data solution is actually an "active" approach, so that it really becomes efficient, especially in the virtual era, the enterprise has an efficient it can be on demand to support various businesses, so in the future competition in an invincible position!