Datacenter Management

Datacenter

Web 2.0, social networking, unified communications, customer and supplier relation management, “CCC”, online training, E-commerce, remote ERP, virtual offices, online services (ASP, SaaS, etc)…With many more new concepts and needs that transform IT into a true production centre or Datacenter.

Many questions arise: how to withstand a growing number of connections each day with confidence and assurance in the secure transfer of data via the Internet? Management of 100 or 80 000 connections per day, with a growing demand for performance from users, archiving of just a few or hundreds of files, which infrastructure, which processes to implement in order to guarantee a quality of service, high availability of all systems by optimizing costs and use of resources?

How to manage an internal or external client, stable or expanding business, on a single site or several, often with a heterogeneous fleet, which increases in organic or successive re-designs.

Facing this passion for SaaS or online services technologies, the need to meet the demand for fast data storage and to meet the economic constraints where energy becomes as precious as gold.
Today, datacenter production managers should be able to find solutions for all problems that they are confronted with.

All of which bring their share of increasingly costly and time consuming constraints:

Heterogeneity of hardware and environments which requires available and qualified staff
Unmanaged electricity consumption
Costly heat loss due to increasingly powerful air conditioning systems.
Poorly optimized use of storage space and calculations
Frequent loss of data and longer time to restart
Optimized delivery of performance and diagnosis of more difficult “root causes”
More approximate quantification and precise invoicing of services provided to clients

With many constraints to manage, in order to give your clients exactly what they want, all of which seems simple and essential to them:

Prompt start up of new applications
Short response times via the Net
Flexibility of the number of connections
Flexibility of storage space and archiving
High availability of service

Whether your vocation is to deliver software
in ASP/ SaaS mode for internal or external clients.

Whether your offer is aimed at a few applications or multiple

What you need is to optimize your infrastructure in order to reduce financial and human costs whilst raising company performance. What you need is to increase the productivity of the virtual factory and to gain peace of mind.

Approach

The NEC Computers’ approach

A cutting edge technological innovation combined with a long history of service with a diverse clientele and demanding results in the design of an integrated solution suite based on the productivity of Datacenters.

Through an audit of existing facilities, a pragmatic analysisof changing needs, understanding of constraints which are specific to each client, we are able to propose simplified or personalized packages with a range of tailor- made services.

Once in place, our services and solutions allow:

Reduced energy bills (air conditioning and electricity consumption)
Optimized use of physical resources
Increased availability of hardware and reduction of access time
Ensure redundancy and disaster recovery plan sensitive application systems
Reduction of occupied space and weight of hardware
Ensure fleet scalability
Reduction of time spent on fleet management in order to free teams of this constraint

The NEC offer is based on a technological range of global solutions comprising of virtualization, centralization, automation, outsourcing and GREEN IT.

NEC Offer

NEC: Your Green IT partner

The policy of the NEC group is to continuously innovate in order to reduce energy bills and to effectively contribute to the preservation of the environment, but also toincrease the productivity of IT users.

The objective is to reduce the energy bill of NEC clients by 50% or 900,000 tons by 2010...Research laboratories have developed the ECO CENTER, a revolutionary solution which reduces the physical space and electrical consumption of a storage farm and computing in one or several Datacenters.

If it is normally possible to put 32 servers into a 42U rack, ECO CENTER can hold from 32 to 64.

Innovation focused on a new hardware design in order to reduce weight, electrical consumption and thermal emissions:

A reduction of occupied space by 50% (two racks in one)
A reduction of weight by 58% thanks to used hardware
Electrical consumption reduced by 55%

ECO CENTER ultimately has the performance advantage of 1010SSj/ WATT which puts it at the top of the dual rack processor classification.

But in order to effectively reduce energy consumption and achieve its goal of reduced CO2 emissions, NEC goes one step further by integrating its global virtualization technologies offer in order to optimize the use of physical resources and reduce the number of servers required and provides platform management tools in order to automate all the tasks associated with a Datacenter.

Thanks to virtualization technologies associated with centralized management tools:

Servers are used at 89% of their capacity and load distribution is automated.
Servers whose resources are rarely used (e.g. at night) are automatically stopped after switching the virtual machines over to less loaded servers. All of these operations, detection to trigger the action are totally automated.
Today, no one other than NEC has the power to propose a global Green IT solution for Datacenters, respecting the environment and responding to all problems and constraints linked with the new issues of datacenters.