Data Center Virtualization: Lower your capital and operational costs and improve operational efficiency and flexibility.
Today’s data center has evolved into a complex infrastructure of disparate physical locations, administrative responsibilities and service agreements. In addition, technology innovations such as virtualization and blade servers are emphasizing that the only constant is change.
Bring technologies together — including hardware, operating system, and network virtualization — to create a complete virtual data center. The benefit of virtualization really runs the gambit — ongoing maintenance and management, reduction of hardware, acquisition costs, and better architecture for availability, security, and performance. This is why virtualization is really becoming the standard for how you design your IT resources for the future.
Business benefits of infrastructure virtualization include:
- Reduce bandwidth utilization by up to 80%
- Reduce bandwidth costs up to 50%
- Accelerate Web Applications up to 3x
- Reduce Server and Application Cost up by 33%
- Savings estimated at $300K annually by eliminating custom
- Application development
Load Balancing
Your applications need to be consistently accessible in order to prevent costly downtime and lost productivity. Aserdiv gives you the power and flexibility to set availability priorities based on requirements such as security, uptime, reliability, and performance.
Without backup and recovery, the potential for liability, missed revenue, and lost productivity is staggering. Unfortunately, building a strategy that meets business needs while balancing costs is not always easy.
Global Load Balancing
Global load balancing adds flexibility and adaptability to your network, so users always have access to applications and data--even if service to your primary data center is interrupted. This type of technology helps organizations support the technical and business goals of application and data availability without sacrificing performance.
Our load balancing capabilities are based on multiple factors, including proximity, performance, and availability, ensuring that end users receive the best experience possible when interacting with applications.
Business benefits of using global load balancing include:
- Improved business continuity.
- Lower management costs and higher availability for distributed applications.
- Geographic load balancing
- Dramatically improved application performance.
Link Load Balancing
Businesses rely upon links to the Internet to generate revenue, interact with partners and suppliers, and conduct much of their daily business. Link load balancing helps maintain redundant, easily managed links to meet business needs, ensuring consistent availability without having to rely solely on Internet service providers.
Our solutions can intelligently compress traffic, reducing WAN link bandwidth for lower ISP costs--and cutting down on bandwidth bottlenecks for faster application delivery.
Business benefits of using link load balancing include:
- Better ROI on application investments.
- Improved business continuity.
- Increased customer satisfaction and employee productivity.
Local Load Balancing
Local load balancing ensures high availability for your applications by monitoring the health and performance of individual servers in real time. This ensures that local users are always connected to a fully functional, responsive system that is best suited for handling their requests.
Our solutions can optimize, secure, and transparently scale the applications that businesses need to run and interact with customers and partners, while also mitigating the risk of security breaches.
Business benefits of using local load balancing include:
- Less risk of security breaches.
- Increased agility.
- Transparent scalability.
- Reduced server and bandwidth cost.
Mobile Acceleration
Employees in many businesses are now mobile. They are required to be out of the office in order to get their jobs done. That means being at the customer site, traveling to partner offices, or even visiting other offices within the company.
For most users, being out of the office generally means that they are significantly less productive. They have limited access to key data and applications, and co-workers generally accept that collaboration will be difficult, particularly if they rely upon a VPN or SSL/HTTPS connection to access data. Traveling workers desperately search for high-quality Internet connections in hotels and in airports in order to communicate with project teams, keep in touch with customers, and keep business moving. For sales teams, traveling executives, and other mobile workers, poor connectivity has simply become a cost of doing business: they have to work longer hours to get the same or less work done than they would in the office.
With a mobile wide-area data services (WDS) solution mobile workers can now have the same LAN-like access to applications and data that employees in the office have. These solutions use software running on the end-users' machine to connect with an appliance in the data center.
Remote Access
Access, Maintain and Control with KVM over IP
Managing today’s dispersed computing infrastructure requires access to any device on a network at any time from any place in the world. Because all servers and many non-computing devices already include a serial port, gaining remote access to those serial ports provides a cost-effective way to manage all of a company’s servers and network-attached devices.
Remote access digital KVM over IP switches eliminate distance limitations by allowing secure remote access and control of servers and other network devices. KVM switches reduce downtime and allow users to gain access and control of any connected server or device. Through a device’s serial port, an IT administrator can monitor and manage the device whether or not the network itself is functioning. This capability saves travel time and cost, and reduces unplanned downtime, maintaining network operation and improving company productivity.
Identifying and Meeting Infrastructure Management Challenges
Managing today's IT infrastructure requires an approach that maintains virtually continuous business operation, provides high levels of security, and reduces operating cost and complexity while increasing IT staff productivity
- Maintaining Network Security
- Reducing Complexity
- Centralizing Data Center Management
- Maintaining High Availability
- Controlling Costs
Each of these challenges presents IT administrators with unique issues, many of which involve ensuring secure and immediate access to the IT infrastructure.
An IT administrator can access any managed device console from any location at any time, even when the production network is unavailable. State-of-the-art console servers offer the following features:
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Remote Site Consolidation
Remote site server consolidation is a clear win in terms of reducing operating costs and improving data security. Centralizing servers at a data center means greater resource utilization, and fewer servers to backup and patch. Since complexity is reduced, such consolidation also means lower IT staff requirements, less chance for errors, and better system.
Data Center Consolidation
Many large organizations have resorted to operating multiple data centers in order to ensure globally consistent application performance. Many have now discovered that data center consolidation can be a reality if they can accelerate application across the wide-are network.
After deploying Wide-area Data Services, companies experience improved user’s productivity, ability to grow revenue through previously impossible business strategies, pursue new projects that could be geographically dispersed, as well as the ability to share work more effectively across offices around the world.
Using WDS solutions, CIOs now have a technology that can tie together their distributed enterprises. Mobile and branch office workers can have the same level of application performance as users at headquarters. Data centers are more protected, using WDS to respond faster in the event of disaster. Infrastructure can be consolidated without performance loss to far-off locations, yet the flexibility to move data and applications can be retained, often providing faster response than ever before.
Because WDS significantly enhances the performance of applications over WANs, enterprises can realize considerable cost savings in addition to productivity improvements. IDC found that the average payback period for a WDS implementation is 7.3 months.
Server Virtualization
Virtualizing your servers or desktops is only half the story. According to both Gartner and IDC, you need to consider storage as part of the solution if you want to realize the promise of a truly virtualized environment.
Server virtualization has set the stage for those who are rethinking how they design and implement their IT solutions. Whether you’re looking for new ways to lower cost, improve scalability, or improve SLAs, integrating storage as part of the overall solution will enable you to:
- Bring products, services, and projects to market faster
- Save up to 50% on storage power, cooling, and space and lower overall data center costs
- Scale your virtualized environment and accommodate data growth without degrading performance or investing in additional storage
Strategic planning is critical to your complete data center transformation. Aserdiv’s Professional Services leverage proven methodologies, tools, and best practices to assess, consult, deploy, and manage the right virtualization solution for your data center.
Web Acceleration
Improve web application performance and reduce costs in the data center
Web acceleration can help you dramatically improve web page response times by compressing traffic and reducing server loads. This type of acceleration often lowers costs in the data center and provides better web application performance and a better user experience--on any network, using any combination of devices.
Aserdiv’s web acceleration technology is designed to overcome WAN latency and performance issues with browsers and web application platforms. Our solutions decrease download times, off load servers, reduce bandwidth usage, and improve user productivity and satisfaction.
Business benefits of using web acceleration include:
- Asymmetrically accelerates web applications for remote and mobile users by up to 5x
- Increases application performance by up to 10x in a symmetric deployment
- Significantly reduces bandwidth usage by reducing the amount of data sent
- Improves server capacity by off loading repetitive content
- Enables browsers to open more simultaneous connections between the browser and web application for increased parallel data transfers
Wide Area Data Services
Improve Application Performance with Wide-Area Data Services (WDS)
Is your company experiencing any of the following issues?
- Poor application performance
- Insufficient, expensive or congested network bandwidth into remote offices
- Difficulties in IT consolidation
- Challenges with slow remote data backup and replication
- Increasing demands of the mobile workforce
Wide-area Data Services
WDS encompasses several different product categories. Whether an organization is seeking to make the most of its existing investment in WAN bandwidth by reducing traffic, or aims to accelerate the performance of its global applications by addressing latency and chatty protocols, the optimal solution addresses all aspects of the problem at once.
WDS is the superset of several existing categories:
- Application acceleration
- WAN optimization
- Wide area file services (WAFS)
- QoS and traffic shaping
- Web caching
Unlike these individual approaches that only address a single cause of poor application performance across the WAN, a complete WDS solution enables the benefits of all of these approaches within a single, unified architecture.
Using WDS, enterprises can improve application performance across the network typically by 5 to 50 times and in some cases up to 100 times, and can simultaneously reduce WAN bandwidth utilization by 65 to 95%. These dramatic results allow businesses to take advantage of their networks, infrastructure, and applications in ways that they had never imagined possible.
Wireless Security
The ability to enter a network while mobile has great benefits. However, wireless networking has many security issues. The risks to users of wireless technology have increased as the service has become more popular. There were relatively few dangers when wireless technology was first introduced. Crackers had not yet had time to latch on to the new technology and wireless was not commonly found in the work place.
Risks from crackers are sure to remain with us for any foreseeable future. The challenge for IT personnel will be to keep one step ahead of them. Members of the IT field need to keep learning about the types of attacks and what counter measures are available.
Guest Access
A growing number of institutions and corporations recognize the need to provide internet access to customers, suppliers, associates, business partners and consultants when they visit their facility. As a result, IT managers are being challenged to provide convenient internet access to guests on the existing wireless and/or wired infrastructure, without daily involvement of IT staff or compromising the security and performance of the enterprise network.
Aserdiv’s guest access services allows IT managers to provide easy to use, controlled, secure and traceable internet access for both wired and wireless guests.
Benefits
- Secure and convenient guest/visitor Internet access without compromising your internal security
- Only authorized guests are allowed to use Internet, others are blocked
- Easy provisioning of guest access credentials by security officers or receptionists/employees
- Highly customized guest portal enables integration with intranet, security badge applications, etc
- Controls and makes guest behavior traceable and auditable
- Integrates with leading credit payment and hotspot roaming/billing companies to provide your own enterprise hotspot services
- Easy to deploy without the need of ongoing IT resources/investments