CommVault Systems Inc.
DSS are one of a selected few CommVault Systems partners in the Irish marketplace. CommVault® Systems, Inc. provides unified enterprise data management solutions to ensure high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of complex storage networks.
The CommVault QiNetix platform, based on CommVault’s Common Technology Engine allows you to simplify, automate and unify data protection and management in the following ways:
Monitor, track, forecast and manage the movement of vital resources that fuel business operations
Minimise complexity and automate advanced data protections and management
Utilise one common technology engine to unify what traditionally has been separate back-up, archive, replication, HSM and snapshot products
Help customers realise the full benefits of disk in data management approach
Customers can deploy individual products or seamlessly integrate new elements into an existing CommVault solution, at a fraction of the time, effort and money required by separate point products.
VMware
DSS are one of only 4 partners in the Irish marketplace for the range of software solutions available from Vmware. VMware, an EMC company, was founded in 1998 to bring mainframe-class virtual machine technology to industry-standard computers. VMware builds innovative and useful software products that leverage state-of-the-art technology in several areas, most notably in the virtualization of the x86 architecture and in full hardware resource management.
With the launch of VMware VirtualCenter in 2003, and the groundbreaking VMotion technology, the company established itself as the thought leader in the newly emerging virtual infrastructure marketplace. Virtual infrastructure introduces a new category of capabilities to the data center enabling business to reduce their IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness.
What is Virtual Infrastructure?
Virtual infrastructure provides a layer of abstraction between the computing, storage and networking hardware, and the software that runs on it. Virtual infrastructure simplifies IT so companies leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster. In a virtual infrastructure, users see resources as if they were dedicated to them. The administrator manages and optimizes resources globally across the enterprise.
Why is Virtual Infrastructure Important?
VMware's virtual infrastructure architecture enables business to lower IT cost through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. Managing a virtual infrastructure enables IT to connect resources to business needs quickly. With virtual infrastructure, IT organizations can provision new services and change the amount of resources dedicated to a software service. Your data center can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage and networking power.
Adopting virtual infrastructure lets IT be responsive to business needs:
60-80% utilization rates for Intel servers up from today's 5-15%
Provisioning times for new applications measured in tens of seconds, not days
Response times for change requests measured in minutes
Zero-downtime hardware maintenance without waiting for maintenance windows
How Virtual Infrastructure Works
The VMware virtual hardware platform implemented by VMware's virtual machines makes virtual infrastructure possible. It creates a uniform hardware image – implemented in software – that operating systems and applications run on. On top of this platform, VMware's family of products provides management and provisioning of virtual machines, continuous workload consolidation across physical servers and VMotion™ technology for virtual machine mobility.
With virtual infrastructure, IT organizations can provision new services and change the amount of resources dedicated to a software service. Hardware management is completely separated from software management, and hardware equipment can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage and networking power to be allocated and de-allocated on the fly to various software services.
How Can DSS and VMware Help You?
DSS can help you to implement Vmware solutions which help enterprises to lower costs, respond faster and deliver flexible and consistent IT. Specifically:
Lower Costs:
You don't pay for what you don't need
You get more out of your IT investment dollars
Easier to separate the strategic IT investments from the commodity IT functions
Respond faster to business demand
Integration with partners and customers is easier
Expansion or M&A activities can happen faster
Resources can be deployed or moved quickly to the business units that need them
Deliver IT that's more flexible and consistent
Leverages technologies you are already investing in: SAN, vLAN
Gives you lower-cost platform options
It lowers risk and increases responsiveness