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A simple way to find savings within the data center is to reduce capital cost through IT infrastructure consolidation. Whether it is servers, networks, storage, or all three, reducing the amount of capital assets through consolidation is a well established infrastructure conversion process and is backed by numerous economic advantages. Consolidation also introduces many new operational benefits typically associated with resource utilization, energy efficiency and the necessary scaling of administrative resources. Storage infrastructure consolidation is a strategy for transitioning an application driven environment composed of multiple distributed server silos (islands), which often have internally embedded (DAS) storage, over to an external storage networking architecture.
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Consolidation of an existing environment can also introduce risk. A distributed environment may be harder to manage but it also provides dedicated and isolated resources, underutilized or not, it may be perceived a providing a reliable solution. This is where BlueArc can really help when making the transition to a consolidation environment. The BlueArc Titan server was developed with consolidation as a fundamental principle of the architecture and design of the system and has may key features and virtualization capabilities that can offer a smooth transition and eliminate risk. Top of the list for consolidation are the general populations of file servers that continue with unabated growth as both unstructured and structured data continue to relentlessly grow at a rate that typically exceed 50% year after year. Just beyond this target is the undying growth of application servers, and associated blade servers and servers virtualization technologies (like VMware), with their increased need to share data enabling new intelligent business processes and new avenues of revenue growth.
Making the move to a consolidation solution is second nature to BlueArc. A team of BlueArc experts can help evaluate you environment to identify the segments of your IT infrastructure that are ideal candidates for consolidation. Scaling to new levels of capacity, performance or even system availability has never been easier, including making the transition from the old infrastructure to the new BlueArc storage network. With migration tools, tiered storage, file system virtualization, hardware accelerated performance and simplified administrative interfaces, consolidation makes sense, saves money and provides the stability you need to eliminate risk.
Sustained performance under heavy loads is one of the core benefits of the Titan platform. This ensure that you can convert both prior application and file servers confidently as the system scales seamlessly and remains solid with no performance drops as load increases. As diverse as our customer environments, the BlueArc Titan platform is ready for any mixed aggregate workload. Whether you need high client counts (64k), high throughput (multi GB/sec) or have a niche workload with a file system performance concern or just maximum IOPS efficiency, BlueArc offers a broad breadth of file system functionality matched by un-compromised speed.
These unique differentiating qualities are why BlueArc provides the ultimate platform for consolidation of network file services like NFS, CIFS and iSCSI for unified IP based storage networking. Whether scaling for capacity of up to 2 Petabyte, or clustering multi GB/sec throughput performance or maximizing IO operations per second into the 100's of thousands, BlueArc provides the scalability needed for consolidation with competitive pricing through proven TCO analysis.
Key Consolidation Benefits of Titan:
If you are considering consolidation then consider BlueArc Titan. BlueArc provides consolidation solutions for a wide range of customer environments and industry verticals. BlueArc provides a unique partnering approach to solving consolidation solutions and with our experience BlueArc can help you determine the best architecture and infrastructure approach for your long term storage infrastructure consolidation needs.
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