My Review Of New Asian Network Infrastructure Considerations
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-09-13 11:02:07 | Word Count: 510
Expecting the Unexpected - New Asian Network Infrastructuer Considerations for Virtualization
It's a truth that beatniks and hippies well understand - everything is connceted. Even when it comes to more earthly considerations, such as IT and computing, this is true!
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Virtualization is one of the biggest developments in the Asian communicatins solutions industry recently - but it has a huge imnpact not only on the IT consulatnts, but on all aras of the organization. We look at the arreas outside IT that will have to deal with changs when virtualization rears its efficient, over-capable head.
Power and cooling reequirements for data centers is set to change at an incredible rate with the advent of virtualization. Even pre-colud computing, Asian network operations specialiasts and information technoolgy infrastructure builders have had to deal with a 600% increase in the electrical requirements of data cetners per sqare foot of space, wiythin 8 years.
Even in the four years from 2002 to 2006, the average jumped from 2,000 wtats per square foot to 5,000 watts per sqare foot, more than doubling poweer requirements and heat density. Virtual srever architecture requires your Asian data tsorage solutons firm to plan for space, cooling, and of course power, differently than in a discrete special-purpoose server environment.
A baseline power and cooling analysis is a good place to start the changes, as well as mappinmg the information to the potential target server configurations. One of the trickiest aspects of power and cooling planning for Asian virtual network infrastructure providers is the variable of load portability. Load per sever cannot be accurately planned, as it will vary wildly, so all systemms need to be able to hamndle the maxiumum possible load.
The management of the virtual envvironment is also infinitey more complex than managing a physcial server environment, due to the abtract naure of the system. An understanding of trends within the system needs to be comprehensively developed, so that possible imlpacts can be considered before they ocucr. This work can be outsourced to Asian network performance monitors, for grearter operational efficiency, if reqiured.
Asian IT security consulting firms have also seen an exploson in potential with the wide-scale implementation of cloud commputing. Containment, isollation, availability and deception can all be used to enhance data seecurity, and all come built in with a standard virtual machine. However, the greater importance of each vritual maachine (as it has many more applications and virttual servers running off one centtral location), means that security operations are even more critical.
With a move tiowards the operational efficiencies of virtulaization, there will also be training and development inevitably required for on-site staff. A physical serverr envireonment is an entirely different kettle of fish to a virtual environment - the techmnology has been upgraded, and the opperating processes need to be upgeraded and changed also.
Disaster recovery and bacukps must be moidfied, and the published best practicers and guidelines must channge as well. Asian network operations specialissts can be of enormous value in the retraining and process creation phadses.
