Throughout Ireland a lot of businesses, and in particular those where data analytics is key to their operations, such as financial organisations or semi-state and public sector bodies, there has been a trend for quite some time to avoid virtualising database servers.
Costing and performance have been the two key reasons for this, however for those who have been afraid to dip their toe into the water thus far, a quick look at the newer options available in this regard would be of major benefit.
As firms contemplate infrastructural investment, they should be made aware that zero management storage for virtualisation and cloud is now out there for them to take advantage. There are efficient and simplified offerings which mean those struggling to take hold of their storage issues no longer have to continue searching for a solution.
Options include application-aware storage which learns and adapts, solving the mismatch between the virtualised environment and traditional storage which many companies are struggling to deal with.
In Qualcom’s case, we offer Tintrí’s new generation storage technology to meet these needs. A market-leading, transformational solution which is as agile and responsive to business needs, it delivers a dynamic virtualised environment, in which it supports multiple hypervisors concurrently as well as thousands of VMs.
With a set up time that’s measured in minutes rather than hours or days it utterly changes how storage works. For example, other storage solutions present your IT department with a block of usable space, in which you can do various things. The Tintrí solution can look at what you’ve put on to that block of space — including what VMs you’ve put on there — and work with it. If it’s running databases within that space, Tintrí can then run performance metrics to improve the performance of the virtual machine.
In a lot of companies, when they run database servers and virtualise them they can underperform, and as a result suffer easily from data bottle necks. It’s the peak and the pull effect.
Sometimes you are running busy, other times your systems are underperforming because other resources are being consumed. Tintrí alleviates that so when you put a database server in it gets all the resource it needs, all the time on demand, any time day or night.
It can manipulate and control each instance of a VM to give you the maximum performance and throughput. From a performance perspective it will give the same if not better performance from a database server by running as a VM than it could have ever possibly ran as a physical machine,.
As a solution it fits in perfectly with the SME market. Indeed with a growing number of companies here running their operations in a 100% virtualised environment Tintrí creates a single ‘Dropbox’ style solution.
Those types of customers may have traditionally perhaps had different tiers of storage with various levels of performance. Using Tintrí, you buy the box, put it in to your site, then move all your VMs and storage groups into it and everything will run at its full potential. All the while you don’t have to worry about manageability.
Mark Carragher is technical director, Qualcom.
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