Por que adoramos appliances
Com o passar do tempo, os profissionais de TI observaram uma mudança significativa nas tecnologias de que mais precisamos. Apesar de aparentemente pequenos e simples, os appliances de backup do datacenter podem ser adicionados às nossas vidas com pouco ou nenhum esforço, são executados com pouca intervenção externa, proporcionam economias significativas de tempo e normalmente não exigem nenhuma configuração. Devido à simplicidade que oferecem, os appliances podem liberar recursos na empresa de formas inimagináveis. FUNÇÃO DOS APPLIANCES Qual a função que esses pequenos, porém poderosos, appliances de backup exercem no datacenter? A resposta não é tão simples e pode ser na verdade bastante variada. Os appliances específicos para backup (PBBA) podem ajudar a proporcionar disponibilidade de aplicativos, oferecer backup dinâmico e ajudar na recuperação rápida de dados, com integração a um único appliance. Apesar de oferecer vários usos, a principal vantagem do appliance é a habilidade de integrar componentes independentes e separados, simplificando o universo do datacenter, eliminando vários sistemas legados e reduzindo a propagação do datacenter, o que pode ser uma causa cada vez maior do aumento das despesas operacionais. SIMPLES E ÁGIL A introdução da simplicidade ao datacenter é a maior vantagem do appliance. Da mesma forma que várias máquinas virtuais podem agora existir em um único hardware, um appliance pode também integrar vários componentes de hardware em um único aparelho físico. Isso libera infraestrutura e recursos de TI para outras finalidades. Essa função se torna ainda mais importante quando consideramos que mais de 50% dos departamentos de TI nas empresas estão mantendo o tamanho de suas equipes inalterado. Um gerenciamento simplificado libera os departamentos de TI para que se concentrem em outras tarefas críticas, como gerenciar a informação ou dar suporte a iniciativas de negócios estratégicas. O gerenciamento simplificado da informação pode também tornar as redes mais ágeis. Por exemplo, considere um appliance de backup como oNetBackup 5230 ou NetBackup 5330. Este último, criado para oferecer capacidade escalonável, alto desempenho e resiliência para lidar com os objetivos de backup e recuperação mais agressivos do datacenter, ele protege também ambientes físicos e virtuais. A simplicidade é apenas um dos principais benefícios de se introduzir um appliance ao datacenter. Em nosso próximo artigo, exploraremos o segundo benefício principal: redução de custos. Se você estiver considerando adicionar um appliance ao seu datacenter, esses dois benefícios serão essenciais para sua pesquisa. Portanto, acompanhe nosso blog.
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As an IT administrator, there are few things which conjure more of a sick feeling in the pit of one’s stomach than a disastrous event which corrupts or loses company data. Data is the second currency of a business after actual currency, so losing it is not an option. These disastrous events take all kinds of forms including natural disasters, data breaches from hackers, accidental data deletion, and a myriad of others. Even something as small as an engineer spilling coffee on a system could wipe out the server and any virtual servers running on it. However, statistically the data shows us that most organizations are not implementing a disaster recovery plan. In 2012, Symantec’s SMB (worldwide organizations with less than 250 employees) disaster preparedness survey found that despite its importance, 74% of them didn’t have a disaster recovery plan in place. One year later, in 2013, another Symantec survey conducted at a Gartner Data Center conference, found that number still hadn’t moved. The best way of finding success with a data protection solution is by breaking through the three biggest barriers to success: Fragmented Information. IT can no longer afford to approach data backup the same as it has in the past; rigid, silo-ed, and sluggish. If file server data is backed up to the cloud, SQL databases are backed up locally on tapes, and accounting data is backed up to a NAS, silo-ed data and duplicity are robbing your organization’s storage efficiency. Exclusion of VMs from Standard Backups. Consolidating backup data on physical servers is important enough, but virtual servers present another layer of needed protection. A 2013 study from King Research and Symantec found that over half of organizations use different backup applications for virtual machines and physical machines. Choose one data protection solution which is capable of backing up and restoring data from virtual and physical servers. As in the first example, consolidation is your friend. Fear of the Difficult. Occasionally there is the perception that the process of evaluating, centralizing, and consolidating is too difficult. This can be especially true when administrators are facing multiple servers, locations, and databases on the network. However, this is simply not the case, and the time and money they save while eliminating duplication far outweighs the initial time investment. Also be aware that the larger the network grows, the more unwieldy and expensive multiple systems will become. There are numerous advantages to consolidating data with the goal of becoming a more agile IT department. In addition to being able to back up all of the data in one location, maximizing the efficiency of the storage, using one application, there is the added bonus in being able to quickly dive into a backup file to restore lost data, too. Speed of restoration should also be a key consideration before looking to the cloud to be your only target for backing up data. Check out Symantec’s work on how to enable the Agile Data Center for more information. Your business is only going to be as modernized and agile as your IT; it’s what enables your people and processes to work smoothly together.3 Steps for Protecting Your Data from Disaster
From a business perspective, a disaster isn’t just a violent storm or terrorist attack that makes news headlines. Anything that makes normal operations difficult or impossible can be disastrous – Imagine that all of your customer files have evaporated, along with everyone’s email messages, pending customer orders and your entire accounts receivables database.
