Solutions: Servers & Storage

Compellent Storage Center

Why Storage Center?
The Compellent SAN significantly lowers capital expenditures, reduces storage management, provides continuous data availability and enables storage virtualisation. Storage Centre manages data at the block-level, maximising utilisation, automating tiered storage, simplifying replication and speeding data recovery.

Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage solutions that are highly scalable, feature rich and designed to be easy to use and cost effective.

• Single Architecture, Single Interface, Every Feature Imaginable
  With a combination of features that go beyond traditional enterprise offerings, Compellent’s SAN redefines the way businesses store and manage their data.
• Radically Reduces the Cost of Storage Acquisition and Management
  The only SAN with Automated Tiered Storage, Compellent’s unparalleled functionality lowers the cost of storage for every enterprise.
• Unprecedented Ease of Use Cuts Admin Time in Half
  With Compellent, any administrator at any enterprise can manage any amount of storage and complete even complex storage tasks in less than 10 minutes.
• World-Class Service and Support
  Compellent’s world-class services organization is a single point of accountability that delivers a superior customer experience throughout the product lifecycle.

Server Consolidation

Microsoft Server System
The advancements in the Windows 2003 Server System have made it possible to consolidate the number of servers required to support the enterprise. For instance, the memory management in Windows Server 2003 is significantly better than in previous versions. In a Terminal Services or Citrix environment this translates to more users per machine. For data and application servers, this equals fewer servers required to provide information to the end-user community.

SSCI is well versed in scalability planning for Terminal Services and Citrix on Server 2003. We can evaluate the hardware requirements of your applications in order to determine the supported number of users per server.

VMware
Server consolidation and containment with VMware software provides a solution for server sprawl. VMware's virtual infrastructure enables workload isolation and granular resource control for all of the system's computing and I/O resources. By consolidating physical systems in the data center onto servers with VMware virtual infrastructure, enterprises experience:

• Lower total cost of ownership of servers
• Higher server utilization
• Increased operational efficiency
• Improved manageability