The document is a report on cloud computing written by Abdul-Rehman Aslam for his course instructor Mr. Safee. It discusses key topics such as what cloud computing is, the cloud service model of Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. It also covers the different types of clouds including public, private, hybrid and community clouds. The report highlights the key characteristics of cloud computing such as cost, device and location independence, multi-tenancy, reliability, scalability and security. It concludes that cloud computing brings many possibilities and is a technology that has taken the software and business world by storm.
Sql Server 2014 Platform for Hybrid Cloud Technical Decision Maker White PaperDavid J Rosenthal
The document discusses options for running SQL Server in hybrid cloud environments, including both public and private clouds. In a public cloud, SQL Server can run in either Windows Azure Virtual Machines, which provides full feature parity with on-premises SQL Server, or Windows Azure SQL Database, which offers scalability to millions of users but less control over the operating system. A hybrid approach allows organizations to deploy applications across on-premises and cloud environments to realize the benefits of each.
This document discusses the deployment of private clouds with IBM systems and software. It outlines the basic technical requirements for private clouds, such as robust virtualization platforms and good management tools. It also discusses the need for standardizing virtual machine images and automating provisioning tasks. Once these practices are in place, private clouds can introduce cost savings by eliminating administrative overhead through self-service catalogs. IBM is well-positioned to help customers deploy private clouds through solutions like CloudBurst, IBM Service Delivery Manager, and Tivoli Service Automation Manager that support virtualization on IBM server platforms.
The document discusses the increasing complexity of distributed computing infrastructures and argues that consolidation onto IBM's zEnterprise platform can help simplify infrastructure management, lower costs, and improve performance and reliability. Specifically:
1) Infrastructure complexity has increased to the point of hindering businesses, as managing many distributed servers running at low utilization becomes difficult.
2) Consolidating workloads through virtualization is needed to regain control, and zEnterprise allows consolidation of Linux, Java, and mainframe workloads on a single system.
3) Running Oracle databases on zEnterprise could improve performance and flexibility while lowering costs through improved utilization and licensing savings.
Despite years of industry advocacy, cloud adoption in larger firms remains slow. There are many logos for many vendors dotting the cloud technology landscape and many competing architectures. But there are also few standards that guarantee the interoperability of different approaches.
The latest buzz in enterprise cloud technology is around “hybrid cloud data centers” in which large enterprises “build their base” – that is, their core infrastructure, possibly as a “private cloud” – and “buy their burst” – that is, obtain additional public cloud- based resources and services to augment their on-premises capabilities during periods of peak workload handling, for application development, or for business continuity.
Ultimately, the adoption of cloud architecture will be gated by how successfully organizations are able to leverage emerging technologies in a secure and reliable manner and whether the resulting infrastructure actually delivers in the key areas of cost-containment, risk reduction and improved productivity.
Cloud Computing: Business Trends and the Challengesidescitation
The purpose of this paper is to provide information
to businesses interested in cloud computing. First we define
cloud computing and discuss the different service and
deployment models from a business standpoint. Then we move
into business cases for the cloud and the strengths of each
service and deployment model. We follow this up with business
attributes that tend to drive a cloud adaption and the effects of
cloud on business IT. The last section reveals the challenges
of cloud computing ranging from security concerns and legal
issues, to negotiation of an adequate service level agreement.
From the server room to the board room, there is a lot of talk about “the cloud” — and for good reason. The cloud offers organizations — and their information technology (IT) staffs, in particular — a number of important benefits ranging from increased efficiencies to scalability. Taking advantage of these benefits requires understanding the various cloud models available and how they can best meet your organization’s specific needs.
The recent surge in cloud computing arises from its ability to provide software, infrastructure, and platform services without requiring large investments or expenses to manage and operate them. Clouds typically involve service providers,
Infrastructure / resource providers, and service users (or clients). They include applications delivered as services, as well as the hardware and software systems providing these services. Our proposed framework for generic cloud collaboration allows clients and cloud applications to simultaneously use services from and route data among multiple clouds. This framework supports universal and dynamic collaboration in a multicloud system. It lets clients simultaneously use services from multiple clouds without prior business agreements among (CSP) cloud service providers, and without adopting common standards and specifications.
The document is a report on cloud computing written by Abdul-Rehman Aslam for his course instructor Mr. Safee. It discusses key topics such as what cloud computing is, the cloud service model of Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. It also covers the different types of clouds including public, private, hybrid and community clouds. The report highlights the key characteristics of cloud computing such as cost, device and location independence, multi-tenancy, reliability, scalability and security. It concludes that cloud computing brings many possibilities and is a technology that has taken the software and business world by storm.
Sql Server 2014 Platform for Hybrid Cloud Technical Decision Maker White PaperDavid J Rosenthal
The document discusses options for running SQL Server in hybrid cloud environments, including both public and private clouds. In a public cloud, SQL Server can run in either Windows Azure Virtual Machines, which provides full feature parity with on-premises SQL Server, or Windows Azure SQL Database, which offers scalability to millions of users but less control over the operating system. A hybrid approach allows organizations to deploy applications across on-premises and cloud environments to realize the benefits of each.
This document discusses the deployment of private clouds with IBM systems and software. It outlines the basic technical requirements for private clouds, such as robust virtualization platforms and good management tools. It also discusses the need for standardizing virtual machine images and automating provisioning tasks. Once these practices are in place, private clouds can introduce cost savings by eliminating administrative overhead through self-service catalogs. IBM is well-positioned to help customers deploy private clouds through solutions like CloudBurst, IBM Service Delivery Manager, and Tivoli Service Automation Manager that support virtualization on IBM server platforms.
The document discusses the increasing complexity of distributed computing infrastructures and argues that consolidation onto IBM's zEnterprise platform can help simplify infrastructure management, lower costs, and improve performance and reliability. Specifically:
1) Infrastructure complexity has increased to the point of hindering businesses, as managing many distributed servers running at low utilization becomes difficult.
2) Consolidating workloads through virtualization is needed to regain control, and zEnterprise allows consolidation of Linux, Java, and mainframe workloads on a single system.
3) Running Oracle databases on zEnterprise could improve performance and flexibility while lowering costs through improved utilization and licensing savings.
Despite years of industry advocacy, cloud adoption in larger firms remains slow. There are many logos for many vendors dotting the cloud technology landscape and many competing architectures. But there are also few standards that guarantee the interoperability of different approaches.
The latest buzz in enterprise cloud technology is around “hybrid cloud data centers” in which large enterprises “build their base” – that is, their core infrastructure, possibly as a “private cloud” – and “buy their burst” – that is, obtain additional public cloud- based resources and services to augment their on-premises capabilities during periods of peak workload handling, for application development, or for business continuity.
Ultimately, the adoption of cloud architecture will be gated by how successfully organizations are able to leverage emerging technologies in a secure and reliable manner and whether the resulting infrastructure actually delivers in the key areas of cost-containment, risk reduction and improved productivity.
Cloud Computing: Business Trends and the Challengesidescitation
The purpose of this paper is to provide information
to businesses interested in cloud computing. First we define
cloud computing and discuss the different service and
deployment models from a business standpoint. Then we move
into business cases for the cloud and the strengths of each
service and deployment model. We follow this up with business
attributes that tend to drive a cloud adaption and the effects of
cloud on business IT. The last section reveals the challenges
of cloud computing ranging from security concerns and legal
issues, to negotiation of an adequate service level agreement.
From the server room to the board room, there is a lot of talk about “the cloud” — and for good reason. The cloud offers organizations — and their information technology (IT) staffs, in particular — a number of important benefits ranging from increased efficiencies to scalability. Taking advantage of these benefits requires understanding the various cloud models available and how they can best meet your organization’s specific needs.
The recent surge in cloud computing arises from its ability to provide software, infrastructure, and platform services without requiring large investments or expenses to manage and operate them. Clouds typically involve service providers,
Infrastructure / resource providers, and service users (or clients). They include applications delivered as services, as well as the hardware and software systems providing these services. Our proposed framework for generic cloud collaboration allows clients and cloud applications to simultaneously use services from and route data among multiple clouds. This framework supports universal and dynamic collaboration in a multicloud system. It lets clients simultaneously use services from multiple clouds without prior business agreements among (CSP) cloud service providers, and without adopting common standards and specifications.
Comparison of Several IaaS Cloud Computing Platformsijsrd.com
Today, the question is less about whether or not to use Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS), but rather which providers to use. Cloud infrastructure services, known as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), are self-service models for accessing, monitoring, and managing remote data center infrastructures, such as compute, storage, networking, and networking services. Instead of having to purchase hardware outright, users can purchase Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) based on consumption, similar to electricity or other utility billing. Most providers offer the core services of server instances, storage and load balancing. When choosing and evaluating a service, it is important to look at issues around location, resiliency and security as well as the features and cost. In order to evaluate which provider best suits requirements.
A hybrid cloud combines private and public clouds to provide flexibility, agility and cost control. However, operational silos, complex application management and lack of portability limit its effectiveness. To address these challenges, enterprises should unify infrastructure management across clouds with a single control plane. This allows monitoring, managing and orchestrating all environments with the same tools. Choosing a solution like unified cloud management or a unified platform like Kubernetes can provide the necessary abstraction and standardization to improve hybrid cloud operations.
IDC: Selecting the Optimal Path to Private CloudEMC
The document discusses three approaches to building a private cloud infrastructure: integrated infrastructure systems, reference architectures, and building your own systems. It finds that integrated infrastructure systems reduce overall costs by 55% and time to deployment by 65% compared to traditional approaches. Reference architectures also provide advantages in reducing costs by 25% and deployment time by 25%. Both approaches deliver significant benefits in efficiency and agility over building systems independently.
The document discusses elastic data warehousing in the cloud. It begins with an introduction to data warehousing and cloud computing. Cloud computing offers benefits like reduced costs, expertise, and elasticity. However, challenges include data import/export performance, low-end cloud nodes, latency, and loss of control. The goal is an elastic data warehousing system that can automatically scale resources based on usage, saving money. It will provide overviews of traditional data warehousing and current cloud offerings to analyze the potential for elastic data warehousing in the cloud.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its benefits and challenges. It discusses the different cloud computing models of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Public clouds offer economies of scale but limited customization, while private clouds have more control but require companies to manage their own infrastructure. Hybrid clouds combine public and private models. The main benefits are reduced costs, increased storage, and flexibility. However, key challenges include concerns around data security, availability, management capabilities, and regulatory compliance restrictions.
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White Paper: Rethink Storage: Transform the Data Center with EMC ViPR Softwar...EMC
This white paper discusses the software-defined data center (SDCC) and challenges of heterogeneous storage silos in making SDDC a reality. It introduces EMC ViPR software-defined storage, which enables enterprise IT departments and service providers to transform physical storage arrays into simple, extensible, open virtual storage platform.
Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. It consists of Hadoop Common (libraries and utilities), HDFS (distributed file system), YARN (resource management), and MapReduce (programming model). Hadoop is designed to reliably handle failures of individual machines or racks of machines by detecting and handling failures in software. It allows programming in any language using Hadoop Streaming and exposes higher-level interfaces like Pig Latin and SQL through related projects.
Hybrid Hosting: Evolving the Cloud in 2011Rackspace
This whitepaper discusses hybrid hosting, which combines dedicated hosting and cloud hosting. Hybrid hosting allows businesses to seamlessly switch between dedicated servers and cloud services as needed. It provides the stability and security of dedicated hosting for critical applications alongside the scalability of cloud computing. The paper outlines the elements of hybrid hosting and how it provides flexibility, scalability, and cost savings through the ability to move workloads between dedicated servers and cloud servers. It also discusses Rackspace's hybrid hosting capabilities and AMD server platforms that support hybrid hosting.
This document discusses IBM's cloud storage solution for transforming information infrastructure. It provides three examples of how cloud storage could help organizations by allowing dynamic storage management: 1) A company running out of disk space on a Friday could non-disruptively add storage in the cloud. 2) Old storage systems can be replaced by migrating data to the cloud without downtime. 3) Cloud storage provides disaster recovery by replicating and accessing data in the cloud when primary storage fails.
Exploring the cloud deployment and service delivery modelscloudresearcher
This document summarizes cloud computing deployment and service delivery models. It describes common cloud deployment models including private clouds for internal use, public clouds for external use, hybrid clouds combining public and private, and community clouds for specific groups. It also outlines emerging models like combined and inter clouds. For service delivery, it defines the main models of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), explaining the level of control users have and examples of each.
The document discusses consolidating databases onto private clouds. Key benefits include reduced costs through increased efficiency and utilization, reduced complexity by standardizing configurations, improved quality of service through centralized management and monitoring, and improved agility allowing faster deployment and provisioning of resources. Private clouds are preferable to public clouds as they allow for control over quality of service levels and security of data within corporate networks and governance regulations. Oracle Database 11g can be successfully consolidated onto private clouds through different deployment models.
The IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud white paper provides an overview of the platform and its advantages for enterprises. It discusses how the solution combines servers, storage, networking, and software into an optimized unified architecture. The paper highlights how the platform delivers outstanding performance through its converged networking and scalable architecture. It also emphasizes how the solution provides reliability through redundancy and quality support from IBM.
This document contains instructions and materials for a Latin American history lesson on independence movements. It includes discussion questions, reading assignments on the prelude to revolution and revolts in Mexico and South America, and an individual assignment to create a timeline with years of independence for various Latin American countries and the US, including flags or maps. It also asks how Latin Americans were influenced by Enlightenment ideas.
La naturaleza es importante porque sustenta toda vida, incluyendo la vida humana, animal y vegetal. Depende de los seres humanos conservar este maravilloso mundo natural en el que vivimos y del cual dependemos.
Business impact restrictions on cross border dataRene Summer
This document discusses the importance of cross-border data flows for businesses and the economic impacts of restrictions on such data flows. It notes that information and communication technologies (ICT) have driven globalization and productivity growth. However, some countries impose restrictions on transferring customer or employee personal data across borders or require local data storage. This can negatively impact company revenues and increase costs of service through reduced efficiency, scalability, and ability to innovate quickly. The document recommends lessening such restrictions to facilitate international digital trade and establishing efficient cross-border data transfer regimes.
Converged data center_f_co_e_iscsi_future_storage_networkingEMC
This document discusses the future of storage networking, specifically comparing FCoE and iSCSI. It begins with an overview of how 10Gb Ethernet is enabling network convergence by allowing a single network to be used for both storage and regular network traffic. It then covers the iSCSI and FCoE protocols in more detail, explaining how iSCSI transports SCSI over IP networks using TCP, while FCoE encapsulates Fibre Channel frames in Ethernet to enable Fibre Channel over Ethernet. Finally, it discusses how these protocols support network virtualization and the evolution of converged infrastructure solutions.
This document provides an introduction and overview of planning, deploying, and managing Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010. It includes information on purchasing the online guide, social media links to follow the publisher, and a list of the "Top 10 Sins" organizations should avoid from a security perspective.
This document discusses how to migrate an XP machine to Windows 7 using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) while maintaining user and application settings. It covers using MDT's advanced features like linked deployment shares to deploy to offline or disconnected machines, and creating deployment media. It also provides instructions on gathering application uninstall keys from XP to automatically reinstall the same applications during the Windows 7 migration. The document demonstrates how to configure MDT to detect and optionally make certain applications mandatory during deployment.
Comparison of Several IaaS Cloud Computing Platformsijsrd.com
Today, the question is less about whether or not to use Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS), but rather which providers to use. Cloud infrastructure services, known as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), are self-service models for accessing, monitoring, and managing remote data center infrastructures, such as compute, storage, networking, and networking services. Instead of having to purchase hardware outright, users can purchase Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) based on consumption, similar to electricity or other utility billing. Most providers offer the core services of server instances, storage and load balancing. When choosing and evaluating a service, it is important to look at issues around location, resiliency and security as well as the features and cost. In order to evaluate which provider best suits requirements.
A hybrid cloud combines private and public clouds to provide flexibility, agility and cost control. However, operational silos, complex application management and lack of portability limit its effectiveness. To address these challenges, enterprises should unify infrastructure management across clouds with a single control plane. This allows monitoring, managing and orchestrating all environments with the same tools. Choosing a solution like unified cloud management or a unified platform like Kubernetes can provide the necessary abstraction and standardization to improve hybrid cloud operations.
IDC: Selecting the Optimal Path to Private CloudEMC
The document discusses three approaches to building a private cloud infrastructure: integrated infrastructure systems, reference architectures, and building your own systems. It finds that integrated infrastructure systems reduce overall costs by 55% and time to deployment by 65% compared to traditional approaches. Reference architectures also provide advantages in reducing costs by 25% and deployment time by 25%. Both approaches deliver significant benefits in efficiency and agility over building systems independently.
The document discusses elastic data warehousing in the cloud. It begins with an introduction to data warehousing and cloud computing. Cloud computing offers benefits like reduced costs, expertise, and elasticity. However, challenges include data import/export performance, low-end cloud nodes, latency, and loss of control. The goal is an elastic data warehousing system that can automatically scale resources based on usage, saving money. It will provide overviews of traditional data warehousing and current cloud offerings to analyze the potential for elastic data warehousing in the cloud.
This document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its benefits and challenges. It discusses the different cloud computing models of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Public clouds offer economies of scale but limited customization, while private clouds have more control but require companies to manage their own infrastructure. Hybrid clouds combine public and private models. The main benefits are reduced costs, increased storage, and flexibility. However, key challenges include concerns around data security, availability, management capabilities, and regulatory compliance restrictions.
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White Paper: Rethink Storage: Transform the Data Center with EMC ViPR Softwar...EMC
This white paper discusses the software-defined data center (SDCC) and challenges of heterogeneous storage silos in making SDDC a reality. It introduces EMC ViPR software-defined storage, which enables enterprise IT departments and service providers to transform physical storage arrays into simple, extensible, open virtual storage platform.
Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. It consists of Hadoop Common (libraries and utilities), HDFS (distributed file system), YARN (resource management), and MapReduce (programming model). Hadoop is designed to reliably handle failures of individual machines or racks of machines by detecting and handling failures in software. It allows programming in any language using Hadoop Streaming and exposes higher-level interfaces like Pig Latin and SQL through related projects.
Hybrid Hosting: Evolving the Cloud in 2011Rackspace
This whitepaper discusses hybrid hosting, which combines dedicated hosting and cloud hosting. Hybrid hosting allows businesses to seamlessly switch between dedicated servers and cloud services as needed. It provides the stability and security of dedicated hosting for critical applications alongside the scalability of cloud computing. The paper outlines the elements of hybrid hosting and how it provides flexibility, scalability, and cost savings through the ability to move workloads between dedicated servers and cloud servers. It also discusses Rackspace's hybrid hosting capabilities and AMD server platforms that support hybrid hosting.
This document discusses IBM's cloud storage solution for transforming information infrastructure. It provides three examples of how cloud storage could help organizations by allowing dynamic storage management: 1) A company running out of disk space on a Friday could non-disruptively add storage in the cloud. 2) Old storage systems can be replaced by migrating data to the cloud without downtime. 3) Cloud storage provides disaster recovery by replicating and accessing data in the cloud when primary storage fails.
Exploring the cloud deployment and service delivery modelscloudresearcher
This document summarizes cloud computing deployment and service delivery models. It describes common cloud deployment models including private clouds for internal use, public clouds for external use, hybrid clouds combining public and private, and community clouds for specific groups. It also outlines emerging models like combined and inter clouds. For service delivery, it defines the main models of Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), explaining the level of control users have and examples of each.
The document discusses consolidating databases onto private clouds. Key benefits include reduced costs through increased efficiency and utilization, reduced complexity by standardizing configurations, improved quality of service through centralized management and monitoring, and improved agility allowing faster deployment and provisioning of resources. Private clouds are preferable to public clouds as they allow for control over quality of service levels and security of data within corporate networks and governance regulations. Oracle Database 11g can be successfully consolidated onto private clouds through different deployment models.
The IBM BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud white paper provides an overview of the platform and its advantages for enterprises. It discusses how the solution combines servers, storage, networking, and software into an optimized unified architecture. The paper highlights how the platform delivers outstanding performance through its converged networking and scalable architecture. It also emphasizes how the solution provides reliability through redundancy and quality support from IBM.
This document contains instructions and materials for a Latin American history lesson on independence movements. It includes discussion questions, reading assignments on the prelude to revolution and revolts in Mexico and South America, and an individual assignment to create a timeline with years of independence for various Latin American countries and the US, including flags or maps. It also asks how Latin Americans were influenced by Enlightenment ideas.
La naturaleza es importante porque sustenta toda vida, incluyendo la vida humana, animal y vegetal. Depende de los seres humanos conservar este maravilloso mundo natural en el que vivimos y del cual dependemos.
Business impact restrictions on cross border dataRene Summer
This document discusses the importance of cross-border data flows for businesses and the economic impacts of restrictions on such data flows. It notes that information and communication technologies (ICT) have driven globalization and productivity growth. However, some countries impose restrictions on transferring customer or employee personal data across borders or require local data storage. This can negatively impact company revenues and increase costs of service through reduced efficiency, scalability, and ability to innovate quickly. The document recommends lessening such restrictions to facilitate international digital trade and establishing efficient cross-border data transfer regimes.
Converged data center_f_co_e_iscsi_future_storage_networkingEMC
This document discusses the future of storage networking, specifically comparing FCoE and iSCSI. It begins with an overview of how 10Gb Ethernet is enabling network convergence by allowing a single network to be used for both storage and regular network traffic. It then covers the iSCSI and FCoE protocols in more detail, explaining how iSCSI transports SCSI over IP networks using TCP, while FCoE encapsulates Fibre Channel frames in Ethernet to enable Fibre Channel over Ethernet. Finally, it discusses how these protocols support network virtualization and the evolution of converged infrastructure solutions.
This document provides an introduction and overview of planning, deploying, and managing Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010. It includes information on purchasing the online guide, social media links to follow the publisher, and a list of the "Top 10 Sins" organizations should avoid from a security perspective.
This document discusses how to migrate an XP machine to Windows 7 using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) while maintaining user and application settings. It covers using MDT's advanced features like linked deployment shares to deploy to offline or disconnected machines, and creating deployment media. It also provides instructions on gathering application uninstall keys from XP to automatically reinstall the same applications during the Windows 7 migration. The document demonstrates how to configure MDT to detect and optionally make certain applications mandatory during deployment.
The document discusses several issues related to pollution and natural resource use in Tucson, Arizona. Students were asked to take positions on whether global warming is the biggest problem, Tucson should enact stricter water regulations, and mining companies should be allowed to use all empty land in Southern Arizona. They were then instructed to take on roles like environmentalist, factory owner, factory worker, doctor, restaurant owner or unemployed person and discuss concerns and possible solutions from those perspectives on the issues facing 1870s New York City during the Industrial Revolution.
This document provides an overview of electrophoresis techniques. It defines electrophoresis as a method used to separate macromolecules like proteins based on their charge, size, and shape under the influence of an electric field. There are two main types - moving boundary electrophoresis where components separate in solution, and zone electrophoresis where separation occurs on a supporting medium like a gel or paper. Key factors that affect electrophoretic mobility and separation include the electric field strength, characteristics of the sample, properties of the supporting medium, and buffer composition and pH. Common electrophoresis methods include isoelectric focusing, high-voltage electrophoresis, capillary electrophoresis, and continuous versus discontinuous gel systems.
This document is a bellringer activity for a history class that provides announcements and instructions for students. It asks students to consider why the Mayan culture collapsed, identifies a Roman coin as a primary source, and directs students to read about theories for why the Roman Empire fell and summarize them in their notes. Students are asked to identify the most plausible theory and which two theories would be most and least likely to happen to the modern US.
The document provides guidance on writing an introduction to research. It recommends including background on the topic, its importance, and the common methods used. It also offers tips on in-text citations, using scientific names, stating the hypothesis, and keeping track of sources. Logistics are discussed, such as making the introduction 1-2 double-spaced pages.
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El documento resume los principales aspectos del Código de la Infancia y la Adolescencia de Colombia, incluyendo los derechos de los niños, las instituciones responsables de garantizarlos y los procedimientos cuando se vulneran. Explica el Sistema de Responsabilidad Penal para Adolescentes, las sanciones aplicables a los menores de edad que cometen delitos y los derechos que tienen durante el proceso y ejecución de las medidas.
Behavioural safety focuses on workers' behaviors as the main cause of workplace injuries. It views safety as something that workers have the biggest influence over through their own actions and by encouraging safe behaviors in others. Studies show companies that implemented behavioral safety programs saw reductions in accidents of 45% or more as well as savings of over £250,000. The approach aims to develop a strong safety culture within teams and give workers the skills to identify and address unsafe behaviors respectfully.
This document contains notes from multiple history class sessions on the topic of slavery. It includes bellringer questions about reasons for tolerating the slave trade and whether slavery would have continued with modern machinery. A quiz for one class asks about details of slavery such as the student who locked a teacher out and the country that imported the most slaves in the 1600s. Notes also provide discussion questions about the difficulty of Europeans outlawing slavery even if they did not trade slaves themselves.
Priscila needs practical experience opportunities to improve the knowledge acquired in her courses as only theoretical learning is insufficient and leaves her unprepared to be a professional. She feels frustrated and deceived about the lack of practical stimulus in her education so far. As a stakeholder who is communicative, likes helping others and open environments, she would benefit from experiences that develop her skills and motivation.
It has been widely acknowledged that the hybrid cloud is becoming the most important and popular variant of cloud computing. But in order to utilise it effectively it is important to understand that the hybrid cloud does not mean the end of dedicated hardware. If anything, the increased usage of I/O-heavy applications such as databases and Big Data platforms will necessitate a greater use of dedicated hardware in the future.
This document is a seminar report on cloud computing submitted by Vishnuvarunan.T. It provides an introduction to cloud computing, discussing its key characteristics including on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. It also covers cloud service models such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The document discusses cloud deployment models including private cloud, community cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud. It notes some benefits of cloud computing like cost savings and scalability, as well as challenges around security, privacy, lack of standards, and compliance concerns.
Cloud computing allows users to access software and store data on remote servers over the internet rather than locally on personal devices. It offers benefits like reduced costs, increased collaboration and accessibility of files from anywhere. The document outlines different cloud service models including Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). It also discusses major cloud providers, types of cloud storage, benefits of cloud computing and some challenges regarding data security, availability and regulatory compliance.
Private Cloud With System Center ProjectAbhijit Kundu
The document provides an overview of creating a private cloud using Microsoft System Center 2012, including an introduction to private clouds and their benefits, an overview of the key System Center 2012 components used to create and manage a private cloud, and prerequisites for installing a private cloud such as required virtual machines, software, and physical server configurations.
Comparing approaches: Running database workloads on Dell EMC and Microsoft hy...Principled Technologies
Cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” an organization can implement and make use of the cloud to advance digital transformation initiatives, it’s a matter of “when.” For many, leveraging the on-demand aspects of off-premises public cloud may seem like the fastest way to get to cloud, but your organization can wind up overpaying by settling on this approach exclusively. We found that a Dell EMC on-premises Microsoft hybrid cloud solution could reduce your cloud costs by as much as 46 percent over five years, while enabling greater flexibility in overall cloud strategy. The savings gained in our scenario could pay off the CapEx investment in as few as 29 months. Additional cloud financing options from Dell Technologies can offset large capital expense, potentially making hybrid cloud implementation more manageable. A Dell EMC on-premises Microsoft hybrid cloud solution can accelerate business initiatives and prepare your organization for the future with a cost-efficient approach that saves money while bringing much needed flexibility to your workloads and applications.
1) Cloud computing refers to storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of a computer's hard drive. It allows users and businesses to access files, applications, and computing resources from anywhere.
2) There are three cloud service models - Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - which differ in what resources they provide to users.
3) Cloud services can be deployed via private, public, community, or hybrid clouds, which differ in who has access to the cloud and who manages it.
Cloud Technology and Virtualization
"Project Deliverable 4: Cloud Technology and Virtualization"
Christopher Nevels
Dr. Darcel Ford
CIS 590
11-24-13
Cloud Technology and Virtualization
There are many reasons companies and organizations are investing in server virtualization. Some of the reasons are financially motivated, while others address technical concerns. Server virtualization conserves space through consolidation. It's common practice to dedicate each server to a single application. If several applications only use a small amount of processing power, the network administrator can consolidate several machines into one server running multiple virtual environments. For companies that have hundreds or thousands of servers, the need for physical space can decrease significantly. Server virtualization provides a way for companies to practice redundancy without purchasing additional hardware. Redundancy refers to running the same application on multiple servers. It's a safety measure -- if a server fails for any reason, another server running the same application can take its place. This minimizes any interruption in service. It wouldn't make sense to build two virtual servers performing the same application on the same physical server. If the physical server were to crash, both virtual servers would also fail. In most cases, network administrators will create redundant virtual servers on different physical machines. Virtual servers offer programmers isolated, independent systems in which they can test new applications or operating systems. Rather than buying a dedicated physical machine, the network administrator can create a virtual server on an existing machine. Because each virtual server is independent in relation to all the other servers, programmers can run software without worrying about affecting other applications (Strickland 2013).
Cloud computing is ideal for small companies, as it’s cost-effective, saves time and energy, and it allows for a high level of customization. According to Forbes, a 2009 study found that cloud computing could save up to 67% of the lifecycle cost for server deployment on a large scale. Another study found that using cloud solutions generally results in higher investment returns (when compared to an on-site system). There are further cost saving benefits, such as less need for expensive hardware and software, and no need for physical networks or IT maintenance. Also, cloud systems are usually ‘pay-as-you-go’, so you only pay for what you use. There are no upfront investments, and IT requirements can be easily budgeted for. Also, various cloud services can either be added or scaled back, depending on where your business is, and how much growth is taking place. The cloud is also highly customizable: you can select what platform you want, which payroll software to use, and what email marketing tools you require – all from different vendors, and all individually configurable (K2 SEO 2013).
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PT Infinys System Indonesia (Infinys) is a pioneer and leader in the cloud computing industry in Indonesia. It began offering hosted Exchange email services in 2007. Infinys provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and backup as a service (BaaS). It operates data centers in Jakarta and has partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and others. Infinys' services have a 99.5% uptime guarantee.
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Server virtualization introduced the concepts of automation and agility to servers and applications. Now, as enterprises seek to achieve ever-higher levels of business agility, IT efficiency and cost control, they are exploring private clouds as a way to extend those benefits to the entire datacenter. There are many private cloud platforms in the market today, yet most fail to address key cloud design requirements that are critical to success, notably compatibility, scalability and flexibility. When choosing a private cloud platform, enterprises should carefully consider these and other private cloud attributes.
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CLOUd COMPUting, the long-held dream of computing
as a utility, has the potential to transform a large
part of the IT industry, making software even more
attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware
is designed and purchased. Developers with innovative
ideas for new Internet services no longer require the
large capital outlays in hardware to deploy their service
or the human expense to operate it. They need not
be concerned about overprovisioning for a service
whose popularity does not meet their predictions, thus
wasting costly resources, or underprovisioning for one
that becomes wildly popular, thus missing potential
customers and revenue. Moreover, companies with
large batch-oriented tasks can get results as quickly as
their programs can scale, since using 1,000 servers for
one hour costs no more than using one server for 1,000
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hours. This elasticity of resources, with-
out paying a premium for large scale, is
unprecedented in the history of IT.
As a result, cloud computing is a
popular topic for blogging and white
papers and has been featured in the
title of workshops, conferences, and
even magazines. Nevertheless, confu-
sion remains about exactly what it is
and when it’s useful, causing Oracle’s
CEO Larry Ellison to vent his frustra-
tion: “The interesting thing about
cloud computing is that we’ve rede-
fined cloud computing to include ev-
erything that we already do…. I don’t
understand what we would do differ-
ently in the light of cloud computing
other than change the wording of some
of our ads.”
Our goal in this article is to reduce
that confusion by clarifying terms, pro-
viding simple figures to quantify com-
parisons between of cloud and con-
ventional computing, and identifying
the top technical and non-technical
obstacles and opportunities of cloud
computing. (Armbrust et al4 is a more
detailed version of this article.)
Defining Cloud Computing
Cloud computing refers to both the
applications delivered as services over
the Internet and the hardware and sys-
tems software in the data centers that
provide those services. The services
themselves have long been referred to
as Software as a Service (SaaS).a Some
vendors use terms such as IaaS (Infra-
structure as a Service) and PaaS (Plat-
form as a Service) to describe their
products, but we eschew these because
accepted definitions for them still vary
widely. The line between “low-level”
infrastructure and a higher-level “plat-
form” is not crisp. We b.
The cloud has come a long way since it was first introduced as a computing utility, being paid for only when and in the amount it was used.
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Today Cloud computing is used in a wide range of domains. By using cloud computing a user
can utilize services and pool of resources through internet. The cloud computing platform
guarantees subscribers that it will live up to the service level agreement (SLA) in providing
resources as service and as per needs. However, it is essential that the provider be able to
effectively manage the resources. One of the important roles of the cloud computing platform is
to balance the load amongst different servers in order to avoid overloading in any host and
improve resource utilization.
It is defined as a distributed system containing a collection of computing and communication
resources located in distributed data enters which are shared by several end users. It has widely
been adopted by the industry, though there are many existing issues like Load Balancing, Virtual
Machine Migration, Server Consolidation, Energy Management, etc.
By embracing the different types of cloud computing, organizations can achieve greater flexibility, scalability, cost-efficiency, and access to a wide range of services. Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses operate and has become an integral part of modern IT infrastructure, enabling innovation, collaboration, and agility in the digital age.
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White Paper: The Essential Guide to Exchange and the Private Cloud
1. 1
By Paul Robichaux
O
ne of the biggest changes in the IT
world over the last few years has
been the strong emergence of the
private cloud as a contender for the best
way to host enterprise IT services. At least
in theory, private clouds combine the best
aspects of on-premises software (includ-
ing manageability and control) with those
of public clouds (high scalability and rela-
tively low cost). Microsoft has worked
steadily to develop Exchange into some-
thing that they can host in their own pub-
lic cloud services, such as Office 365 and
Live@EDU; the result is that Exchange
2010 and Exchange 2013 are well suited
for use in private clouds as well.
Exchange Virtualization:
A Quick History
As befits a mission-critical enterprise
application, Exchange can be virtualized
and remain fully supported by Microsoft,
but this is a fairly recent development.
From Exchange 4.0 until Exchange 2007,
The Essential Guide to
Exchange
Private Cloud
and
the
S p o n s o r e d b y
2. 2
T h e E s s e n t i a l G u i d e t o E x c h a n g e a n d t h e P r i v a t e C l o u d
Microsoft’s support policy on virtualized Exchange was “don’t do it; we
don’t support it.” For Exchange 2007, Microsoft defined its current policy,
which remains in effect today (see technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
cc794548(v=EXCHG.80).aspx). That policy depends on several conditions:
• The hypervisor used must be approved under Microsoft’s Windows Server
Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). That still gives you a fairly wide
range of options, including Microsoft’s own products (Windows Server
2008 R2’s Hyper-V and Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012), products from
VMware, RedHat, and Citrix, and a variety of appliances and blades. Inter-
estingly, the Exchange team doesn’t support the use of Exchange 2013 in
Windows Azure, Microsoft’s own public-cloud hosting offering.
• All server roles in Exchange 2010 and 2013 are fully supported for virtualization.
• If you use the disaster recovery or high availability features of the hy-
pervisor, only configurations that result in a cold boot after a failover are
supported. In other words, you can use Exchange 2010/2013 DAGs with-
out limitation, but if you depend on the hypervisor, then “[a]ll planned
migration must either result in shutdown and cold boot, or an online
migration that makes use of a technology like Hyper-V Live Migration.”
In practice, that means that if you use a live migration or copy feature
of the hypervisor for failover, first-line support responsibility falls to the
hypervisor vendor, not Microsoft.
• Microsoft doesn’t support the use of dynamic memory allocation for
virtualized Exchange servers.
The importance of server virtualization continues to grow as server hard-
ware continues to become simultaneously cheaper and more powerful.
The good news is that Microsoft’s policy gives you a great deal of flex-
ibility for virtualizing Exchange in your own private cloud. The two mar-
ket-leading virtualization solutions for Windows, Hyper-V and VMware,
are both fully supported, and although there are many strident arguments
about their relative merits in the press and on the Internet, for our purposes
it doesn’t matter which of them you use to build your cloud. You can take it
3. 3
T h e E s s e n t i a l G u i d e t o E x c h a n g e a n d t h e P r i v a t e C l o u d
as a given that either will be suitable, and that you should choose based on
your technology needs, budget, and environmental requirements.
What’s a Private Cloud?
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding the term “private cloud,” but the
simplest definition is that a private cloud is nothing more than a set of vir-
tual machines running your enterprise software in your own data center.
Whereas traditional cloud computing involves buying services from some-
one else, the private cloud is yours to design, control, and operate—you get
the scalability and cost savings potential of virtualization without giving up
control. Deploying into a private cloud represents a significant challenge for
many organizations, since running a private cloud requires operational and
organizational maturity. However, the flexibility and potential cost savings
of private cloud operations compared to using commercial cloud offerings
can be compelling reasons to insource cloud operations. In addition, orga-
nizations that have specialized retention, compliance, security, or confiden-
tiality requirements often find that commercial cloud services don’t meet
their needs; private cloud implementations offer such organizations a way
to meet their business requirements while still getting the major benefits of
cloud implementations.
At the simplest extreme, a private cloud doesn’t have to be anything more
than a set of virtual machines running on a physical server or two—but just
as economies of scale help drive down costs for commercial cloud provid-
ers, expanding your own private cloud can help lower costs. This may seem
like a paradox, but the drivers for that cost savings are simple: server con-
solidation and storage consolidation.
Server Consolidation and the Private Cloud
Server consolidation is feasible in many environments thanks to a com-
bination of three things: the Moore’s Law-powered increase in server
horsepower, the trend of Microsoft and other major enterprise vendors to
build server software into modular roles, and the fact that many enterprise
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products can’t be combined on the same server. For example, suppose that
you have 25 branch offices and want each of them to have local access to
Exchange and Lync. Microsoft’s past solutions would have called for an
Exchange server and a Lync server in each branch office— probably overkill
for the likely workload. However, Lync and Exchange can’t be combined
onto a single server, so a first-cut approach at implementation might still
end up with two servers per branch office.
Since Exchange 2003, Microsoft has steadily increased the number and
size of mailboxes that can be supported on a single Exchange server. Given
adequate network connectivity, a set of 25 branch offices could easily be
supported by a single Exchange server in a centralized location; the same
is true with Lync (although for HA reasons you might choose to use surviv-
able branch appliances, SBAs, instead of centralizing all Lync roles).
Server consolidation helps power the private cloud in two ways. First, it
reduces overall risk and cost by bringing mission-critical data and applica-
tions under centralized control. To get a sense for why this is so, you can
compare the risk and cost of trying to maintain 25 Exchange servers (includ-
ing keeping them patched, backed up, and protected against tampering and
data loss) versus the risk and cost of running a two- or three-node DAG as
part of the overall enterprise IT service load. Second, there are direct capi-
tal and operating expense reductions related to having a smaller number of
servers: fewer servers means less money spent on hardware purchases and
maintenance, power (and possibly cooling), Windows Server licenses, and
server licenses for Exchange or other enterprise products.
You can think of virtualization as a refinement of the basic idea of server
consolidation. Traditional Exchange server consolidation revolves around
pulling in Exchange data from the periphery of the network and concentrat-
ing it onto a smaller number of centralized servers, but these centralized
servers don’t have to be physical. Consolidating disparate workloads from
different physical locations onto centralized virtual hosts often delivers bet-
ter utilization of the physical servers, with attendant lower management
and operating costs in addition to the other benefits of consolidation.
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Storage and the Private Cloud
Consolidated storage has long been a staple of enterprise data center deploy-
ments. Although the cost to acquire a gigabyte of storage has dropped
steadily over the last ten years, the cost to provision, manage, back up,
and protect that GB of data hasn’t. That’s because, like buying a pony or a
puppy, the initial acquisition cost is only a small fraction of the total life-
cycle cost. To try to deal with this cost imbalance, many organizations have
sought economies of scale through building pools of highly available stor-
age on storage area networks, then dividing that storage among the servers
and applications that need storage. This strategy has proven quite effective
when coupled with other approaches to large-scale deployment, including
server consolidation and now virtualization.
Microsoft’s approach to high availability in Exchange 2010 and Exchange
2013 has led some organizations to deploy Exchange exclusively on JBODs,
using lower-cost, higher-capacity direct attached disks coupled with
Exchange’s native data protection mechanisms. While this is a great solution
for many use cases, taking advantage of it means giving up the benefits of
consolidated storage, including centralized management and provisioning,
hardware-based, application-independent redundancy, and performance
monitoring and optimization that goes beyond what Windows natively pro-
vides. Virtualized Exchange servers on appropriately sized physical hosts
and consolidated storage provide a powerful combination of high perfor-
mance, low operating cost, and enterprise control.
Exchange and the Private Cloud
Exchange is a great candidate for private cloud deployments for a number
of reasons. First, Microsoft explicitly designed Exchange 2010 and Exchange
2013 to support large, low-cost mailboxes at very high scale. Aggressive
I/O optimization from version to version has led to reductions of up to 90
percent in the number of IOPS required to support a given workload; archi-
tectural changes to the client access server and mailbox roles in Exchange
2013 lead to the possibility of further large-scale consolidation. Microsoft
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uses this capability, along with Exchange’s multi-tenant abilities, to host
their own Exchange Online cloud offering by consolidating onto physical
hardware and operating it at high loads. You can take advantage of the same
scalability features in a different way by deploying Exchange servers as vir-
tual hosts in your private cloud alongside other virtualized workloads, with
the mix determined by your business requirements.
Second, Exchange is storage-intensive. The massive reduction in IOPS
requirements is counterbalanced against relentless user demand for larger
mailboxes. Consolidated storage in the private cloud offers the possibility
of gaining efficiency through deduplication, as well as reducing or eliminat-
ing the risk of data loss and downtime associated with reseeding during
failovers or other continuity-related operations.
Third is that Exchange includes a number of management features that
make it ideally suited for private cloud deployments in large organizations.
Enterprise IT departments can offer Exchange as a hosted service to busi-
ness units, or even external entities such as foreign subsidiaries or business
partners. Role-based access control makes it possible to give each stake-
holder precisely the administrative access they need; self-service message
tracking, mobile device management, and user provisioning allow many
operations to take place without involving centralized IT staff; and report-
ing and monitoring (plus integrated support for System Center Operations
Manager) enable global monitoring and control for all Exchange servers.
Building Your Own Private Cloud
Because Microsoft’s support policies call for full support of virtualized
Exchange environments, there are relatively few unique issues to worry
about when building a private virtualized cloud. The primary issues you
face in such a deployment are largely similar to the issues you’d face in a
physical deployment:
• How many servers will you use, hosting how many mailboxes?
• How will you partition your mailbox data across servers, mailbox data-
bases, and geographies?
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• Will you use database availability groups (DAGs)? What about RAID? Is
there a role for storage-level replication or other technologies?
• What measures will you take to ensure continuity in case of a failure or
disaster?
• Is there special business or operational issues to take into account? Exam-
ples might include specific requirements for compliance, SLAs for avail-
ability and service quality, or other business-driven requirements that go
beyond the technical boundaries of a typical Exchange deployment.
Some of the issues you’d normally face in a traditional deployment, such
as where servers will be physically located, aren’t relevant to the private
cloud. Others, such as which hypervisor you use, have no analog in the
traditional-deployment world. Virtualized private cloud deployments can
take advantage of management tools such as Microsoft’s System Center Vir-
tual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to speed up testing and deployment, too.
Rookies Beware: Potential Mistakes to Avoid
The ubiquity and service quality of public-cloud solutions sets a high bar
for private cloud implementations. End users and business stakeholders
may have high expectations based on their experience with services such as
Outlook.com, Dropbox, and Salesforce. The biggest potential mistake you
may make during private cloud planning is to underestimate the difficulty
of providing a robust service that takes full advantage of the private cloud
paradigm to provide good availability while still saving money compared
to traditional deployments. Here are a few tips to keep in mind as you go
through this process:
• Be mindful of what you’re promising to deliver, and ensure that your
planning is adequate to meet the commitments you make.
• Pilot, pilot, pilot. Because all Exchange servers within an AD forest can
interoperate seamlessly, you can easily pilot private-cloud operations by
setting up a small number of servers and using them to gain experience
during the early phases of your service rollout.
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• Don’t put all of your Exchange VMs on the same physical host. This
may seem obvious, but for smaller deployments it can be tempting to
buy a powerful server and use it to host all the members of an Exchange
DAG. While the hypervisor and Exchange can work together to prevent
data loss caused by a VM-related failure, they can’t help you much if the
physical server itself fails.
• Use RAID where it makes sense. Microsoft recommends that you deploy
RAID for any database that has less than three copies in a DAG, but you
may be able to do without DAGs by relying on a combination of RAID for
data protection plus hypervisor or storage-based clustering for HA and
VSS to provide point-in-time backups.
• Validate your storage configuration. Whether you use a small number of
large physical servers, a blade architecture for high-scale virtualization,
or something in between, it’s critical to validate that your chosen stor-
age design will provide adequate IOPS, throughput, and resilience under
load. Use Jetstress and Loadgen to thoroughly test your storage design in
advance, and fix any problems you find with it before proceeding with
your deployment.
Getting the Right Help
Deploying Exchange in a private cloud requires different, and more
advanced, skills than managing Exchange operations—the ongoing opera-
tions phase is largely the same as it would be for a conventional deploy-
ment. Most organizations find that retaining outside experts, in the form of
professional services teams with private cloud experience and leveraging
documented reference architectures and best practices, is a smart move
because it reduces risk and overall cost while helping to transfer skills and
knowledge to the team who will be running the deployed systems. You
should evaluate potential service providers based on their experience in all
sizes of projects, their demonstrated expertise with Exchange, their compe-
tence with the hypervisor you plan to use, and their library of best practices
EMC offers both design and implementation services, as well as integrated
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solutions Like EMC VSPEX that leverage EMC’s extensive experience with
Microsoft Hyper-V. EMC’s Information Infrastructure Solutions for Microsoft
Virtualization offers a broad spectrum of hardware, software, and services
support for Hyper-V and integration Microsoft System Center (ex., SCVMM)
and Native Exchange functionality, ensuring you obtain the agility, perfor-
mance, and cost advantages virtualization can deliver. EMC specializes in
wide-area, cross- site business continuity and disaster recovery, and is a
Microsoft Geographically Dispersed Hyper-V Solutions partner.
With the viability of your entire private cloud deployment hinging on
correct engineering, training, and ongoing operational management, EMC
professional services are one of the most cost-effective means of ensuring a
successful project.
Top ReasonsWhy CustomersVirtualize Exchange with EMC Solutions
Your business depends on messaging and communications to be
productive and successful
EMCisthestrategicpartnerofchoicewithourproven,industry-leadingexpertiseandsolutionsacrossthemany
critical dimensions of a robust information infrastructure. Our expertise and solutions leverage the best of EMC,
MicrosoftExchange,andindustry-leadingvirtualizationandmanagementtechnologiesfrombothMicrosoftand
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You want to ensure flexibility and agility over the long term to respond to
changing messaging and communication requirements
YouhaveseenhowExchangehasbecomeintegraltoyourbusinessandalsohowtheapplicationhasevolvedover
theyears.YouneedtoensurethatyourinfrastructurecanrespondtochangesinbothbusinessandITrequirements.
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EMCoffersarangeofbestpracticesandinfrastructuresolutionstohelpyouacceleratedeployments,leveragethe
latestfunctionality,andsimplifyoverallmanagement. EMC’sbreadthofstorageplatforms,includingVNX,VMAX,
andourintegratedofferingslikeVSPEX,providecosteffective scalabilityandperformanceforanysizeExchange
andUnifiedcommunicationenvironment.
You want to confidently leverage the benefits of virtualizing Exchange in
a Private Cloud environment
Emailgrowthisresultinginincreasingcostandmanagementcomplexity.EMCcanhelpyoueliminatetheisolated
Exchangesilo’swithprovensolutionsforvirtualizingExchange. EMC’svirtualizationcapabilitiesspanthedesktop
tothedatacenter. EMCalsohasindustry-leadingexpertiseinbothMicrosoftandVMwaretechnologiesandisthe
recognizedleaderinExchangestorage. WehavetheexpertiseandsolutionstohelpyoutransformExchangetoa
virtualized,privatecloudenvironmentthatworksforyouandyourusers.
You want to simplify management and empower your Exchange and
Infrastructure Administrators with more automation and integrated tools
EMCcanhelpyougivecontrolandempowermentbacktoyouradministrators. EMC’stoolslikeEMCStorageInte-
grator (ESI) can help your admins provision and replicate your exchange infrastructure quickly and efficiently.
Additionally,EMC’ssupportandintegrationwithMicrosoftSystemCenterhelpsyoutoleveragetheexistingtools
andknowledgetomanagebothphysicalandvirtualinfrastructurefromsingleconsole.
You need to enable the level of recovery that your business and users
require—addressing all levels of granularity from email to data center
EMC can help you simplify backup and recovery for Exchange and all of your Microsoft applications. EMC can
help your admins take backups in a split second, recovery instantly to infinite points–in-time, and also recover
single-item,individualmessages,mailboxes,databaseanddatacenters. EMC’sindustry-leadingportfolioinclud-
ing Data Domain, Avamar, Networker, RecoverPoint, AppSync, and ItemPoint provide the range of backup and
recoveryoptionsyourbusinessmandatesforExchangeandmessaging.
It is essential to your business to provide increasing levels
of Exchange data protection
Exchangeiscriticaltohowyourbusinesscommunicatesandoperates.Youneedtoensureyoucan restartopera-
tions quickly after a disaster or unplanned outage. Your requirements have evolved where you need to provide
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bothlocalandremoterecoveryoptions. EMC’sdepthofexpertiseandreplicationsolutionsincludingRecoverPoint
andVPLEXcanhelpyouensurethehighestlevelsofExchangeprotection.
You need to address governance and e-discovery requirements that
incorporate Exchange archiving
EMC SourceOne Email management can help you promote compliance, define message retention policies,
respondtoeDiscoveryrequests,andreduceIToperationalrequests.
You want to confidently upgrade or migrate to latest the latest email
and unified communication technologies
With thousands of global consultants, EMC Global services organization offers a broad portfolio of strategic con-
sultation,planning,delivery,andsupportacrosstheExchangelifecycle. EMChashelpedthousandsofExchange
usersmigrate,upgrade,andvirtualizeExchange—transformingtheirMicrosoftApplicationstotheCloud.
You want to ensure that any solution you deploy leveraging EMC technology
will provide expected performance based on your set of requirements
WithabroadportfolioofEMCProvenSolutionsyoucanbesurethatanysolutionyouchoosetodeploywillprovide
outstandingperformance,becauseitwasrigorouslytestedandvalidatedintheEMCProvenSolutionlabsacross
multipleSolutionCentersofExcellenceacrosstheglobe.EveryProvenSolutionprovidessetperformanceresultsso
youcanconfidentlyexpectthesamelevelofperformancewhenExchangeisdeployedinyourdatacenter.