Products & innovations
Cisco Launches Next
Generation Storage
Networking
Innovations
Data stored in global data centres
will increase by five-fold to reach 915
Exabyte by 2020, according to the
recent Cisco Global Cloud Index. Cisco
has announced technology innovations
for next-generation storage
networking that will help customers
access, manage and automate this
stored data to better enable digital
business goals.
With this announcement, Cisco
offers storage networking customers
32Gb fibre channel performance
across an integrated MDS storage
director and Unified Computing
System (UCS) fabric, storage
networking analytics, and non-volatile
memory express (NVMe) over FC
support for flash memory appliances.
To meet SAN scalability
requirements, Cisco is collaborating
with Broadcom/Emulex and Cavium/
Qlogic to provide customers with
high bandwidth storage connectivity,
and is providing 32Gb fibre channel
host bus adapter with seamless
support on the Cisco UCS C-Series.
The 32Gb HBA’s are designed to
address requirements of modern
networked storage systems that
utilise high performance and low
latency solid state storage drives for
caching and persistent storage, as
well as hard disk drive arrays.
With a built-in, high performing,
hardware based analytics engine on
Cisco MDS 32G Modules, organisations
also gain complete visibility across
SAN in real time. Customers will
be able to analyse in real time FC
exchanges and report on various
metrics, providing comprehensive and
timely monitoring of any potential
performance issues in the network to
make informed operational decisions.
For further information visit:
www.cisco.com
46 | July 2017
Lenovo Launches Largest Data
Centre Portfolio in its History
Lenovo has unveiled an end-to-end data centre portfolio that enables
customers to harness the power of the ‘intelligence revolution’ and create a
strong technology foundation that supports transformative capabilities such as
data analytics, high performance computing, hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence
and machine learning.
Building on Lenovo’s server reliability for x86 servers, Lenovo introduced its
largest, most comprehensive portfolio of server, storage, networking, software
and data centre services, as well as a new set of brands poised to take this
leading position in customer satisfaction to even greater heights: ThinkSystem
and ThinkAgile.
Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile data centre solutions provide
organisations with fluid resources that can adapt to the evolving needs of a
business. The new completely redesigned ThinkSystem portfolio, based on Intel
Xeon Scalable processors, brings the gold standard for the industry under a
single unified brand spanning servers, storage and networking systems.
ThinkAgile is a completely new software defined solutions portfolio built
on the foundation of Lenovo ThinkSystem platforms: It adapts to changing
IT needs while reducing complexity and cost created by silos in traditional IT.
Even better together, the ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile portfolios empower
customers to create the foundation of a future-defined data centre with
simplicity, agility and flexibility and future proofed preparation.
For further information visit: www.lenovo.com
Romonet launches disruptive free
tool to help companies choose
the best data centre location
Romonet has launched a new tool, the Site Analysis Tool (SAT), aimed at helping
businesses and data centre managers to quickly analyse and compare the impact of
location and design on the performance of their data centres.
SAT is freely available on Romonet’s website to all business leaders and
operational staff who want to understand and compare the differences in
performance between the most common data centre designs: Adiabatic direct air
economised; chilled water with cooling towers; economised chilled water with
cooling towers and indirect air economised.
The tool enables users to compare the energy, PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness), energy
cost and CO2 performance of each design across many different climates in Europe and
North America. Currently Romonet’s tool covers 69 locations in the US and 22 locations in
Europe and the company plans to continue adding locations as its data grows.
Users can either select a specific location and see how the four data centre types
compare in performance, or they can select a specific data centre type to see how it
performs across different geographical and climate regions. To ensure the simulation is
as accurate as possible, users can also select the estimated IT load of the data centre.
SAT’s results are generated using over 1,600 simulation years’ worth of data
processed with Romonet’s patented Data Centre Analytics