Enterprise Systems and Storage
Chances are, your data center isn’t getting any leaner. And how could it? Sure, lower costs and simpler systems sound great, but your business needs to grow – and with growth comes growing pains, right?
Not anymore. With new blade server technology, you can have your cake and keep that slim, youthful figure, too. Imagine having the flexibility to scale across any size of IT ecosystem, all while consuming less energy. By utilizing virtualization, data can be spread across drives or put onto a cloud platform, eliminating the need for all that flabby spare capacity. And modular hardware makes upgrades a snap – literally. Just plug it in and you are ready to go.
It’s a great time to cut the excess from your data center and lift that sagging ROI. GDS2 will help you figure out the best diet for your data center. As the number one reseller of Dell Compellant’s efficient data center solution and a provider of IBM, HP and Dell blade servers, we’re sure we’ll find something to fit your taste.
Scalability is simplicity in your enterprise data system. As your business grows, so does your need for data storage. Dell Compellent makes it possible to introduce new technologies and hardware -- disk drives, controllers, and enclosures – into a single existing box, where your data can be managed in one location (the ‘Storage Center’) regardless of the type or number of drives.
Compellent’s “Fluid Data” solution allows old and new hardware to work side-by-side through virtualization technology, eliminating the need to ‘rip-and-replace’ old technology, thereby saving costs while keeping your growth potential unrestricted. And, best of all, it eliminates the clunky complexity of traditional IT data centers, reducing the costs of management and upgrades.
All storage systems are not created equal. When you are looking for an enterprise-class data center without enterprise level costs, Dell’s EqualLogic is unmatched. On all measures, EqualLogic provides the necessary muscle, speed and flexibility that a growing enterprise requires out of a Storage Area Network (SAN) constantly utilized and expanded by users. And the diverse array of EqualLogic products ensures that a business can choose what they need at a cost they can afford.
Cleaner and greener also means cheaper. And Dell’s PowerEdge M-Series has all the performance power you need in a blade server solution with none of the waste. Applying Dell’s Energy Smart standards, the M-Series provides highly efficient power supplies while eliminating excessive fan cooling, using only what is needed. When 50% of all server center energy is used in cooling, according to the EPA, Dell’s smarter energy standards equates to a better bottom line, and Dell’s blades are among the most power efficient x86 servers in the industry, using 19% less power than leading competitors at up to 25% better performance/watt. It doesn’t get much cooler than that.
One-size-fits-all is not for everybody. IBM’s blade server solutions are designed to help your business grow in the way it needs to grow. With the wide range of services and workloads your business is juggling, a good system needs to perform reliably and streamline effectively, not complicate matters further. IBM’s BladeServer provides highly integrated server, storage, management and networking solutions that scale without the need for ‘rip and replace’ technologies of old systems. And even while these components function seamlessly together in a complete system, IBM also provides you the widest choice of compatible hardware offerings to set up or upgrade your server system, ensuring that it will fit your enterprise like a glove.
Blades cut away the inefficiencies and waste in your server system. HP’s BladeServer is at the forefront of blade server efficiency and design, offering unity and resilience for your server system. With its modular blade design, your IT needs can be centralized, eliminating the need for “one-of-everything-IT” in favor of “one-IT-that-does-everything”. Imagine the ease of administration with a server system that has fully consolidated critical applications, network connectivity, energy usage optimization and infrastructure. Yet even while HP’s BladeServer technology allows you to pare down on your IT footprint – and thus your TCO – it also allows you to build up, with modular upgrades taking mere seconds. With HP’s FlexFabric technology, you can start with a single blade and build up your system into a full-scale HP Integrity Superdome 2 within seconds, all while using 97% less cabling. How’s that for cutting edge?
