Portable Datacenter set to Gain Ground with Enterprise

• Email
• Print
• ( 0 )
• 

With the growth and spread of knowledge-based solutions, the need for IT solutions outside the confines of a fixed datacenter has increased as well and the enterprise segment is surely moving ahead to inculcate greater flexibility when it comes to having its IT infrastructure.

Consider the following cases, in which IT services are required in an arbitrary location. Emergency response situations, in which agencies set up operations with a complete remote datacenter in a disaster area. Responsiveness is a key requirement in providing effective emergency services. Remote datacenters need to be portable and flexible to meet changing needs of an enterprise which is moving ahead on the next generation IT needs.

Additionally, commercial operations such as mobile blood drives and bank branch offices that set up operations in a mobile unit with limited space and a need for access to data and applications on the move, hence a portable data center would surely make sense for such operations.

Major events and trade shows where setting up and tearing down are regular occurrences and remotely supporting systems that are continuously on the road is a constant challenge. These applications share a common requirement: a complete datacenter that is portable and easily transported to any location at a moment’s notice. And today, with the help of virtualization technology, organizations can reduce the size of the remote datacenter altogether and at the same time build a portable datacenter “in a box” that is quickly deployed anywhere, easily replicated for multiple or future uses, and more effectively supported and reliable in the field when it gets there.

As it is a reality today, with the help of high end communications technology enterprise customers can today put multiple server images — the operating system, applications, and configurations — into virtual machines, all running on a single physical computer and make use of a portable data center.

Moving forward, an enterprise can then create one compact unit, containing Server and shared storage, a backup server, and other components critical to the remote datacenter, all contained in one or more portable, self-contained, and field-ready cases. Desktops or laptops connect wirelessly or via cable to access the information in the portable datacenter, just as they do on a normal network. This concept is surely gaining ground with enterprise customers looking at achieving the flexibility for their communication networks. And moving ahead in time, this is the way forward for the enterprise data center space.