Data Center
Most data centers today have technology complexities that can be dramatically simplified as well as provide some of the greatest opportunities for cost savings and performance gains. Unifying the data center not only saves money and increases business potential, but it also is critical for keeping the organization operating at maximum potential.
Our end to end data center services include design, deployment, virtualization, storage, and high availability. Katalyst is prepared to meet the challenges of today's data center:
- How to do more with less
- How to reduce costs
- How to keep up with rapid growth
- How to remain secure and available
Virtualization
Virtualization has advanced from the traditional model of basic server consolidation, to a complete virtualization of your data center (server, application, storage, desktop, network). Leveraging this strategic vision in your data center improves efficiency and availability of all components, providing a roadmap for much greater business efficiencies.
Katalyst Network Group's expertise will work closely with your organization on a path to a transformation to a virtualized data center. Virtualization provides a unique opportunity with drastic improvements to efficiency and resource availability. Data center resources are generally underutilized in the "one server, one application" model that exists today many organizations today. Virtualization counters traditional underutilization with a solution that can free IT administrators from managing the infrastructure to spending time innovating, enabling them to assume a more strategic role in your organization. In addition to our business experience, our strategic relationships with Cisco, VMware, and EMC empower our clients with progressive – but proven – data center solutions.
Next Generation Unified Computing
IT Administrators must spend significant time on manual procedures for basic tasks such as constantly working against inflexible existing hardware platforms instead of focusing on more strategic initiatives. Data center virtualization has created a market opportunity where IT organizations are trying to reduce costs and increase flexibility. The Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is in a class of its own in the blade-based server market. Cisco has revolutionized this market by not being tied to any predefined server architecture and thus is able to define a new future for computing platforms.
The Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that:
- Unites computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system
- Integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gb Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers
This approach decouples scale from complexity. Whether the system has 1 server or 320 servers with thousands of virtual machines, all resources participate in a unified management domain designed to:
- Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) at the platform, site, and organizational levels
- Increase IT staff productivity and business agility through just-in-time provisioning and mobility support
The UCS platform is designed for virtualization from the ground up. The "Extended Memory Architecture" that provides innovative memory technology in the Intel Nehalem processors that is unparalleled in the industry. The ease of management through UCS Manager provides a "single pane of glass" management platform for up to 40 chassis (320 half width blade servers), network connectivity and storage access.
Storage
Through our strategic relationships, we've developed the expertise you need to ensure your storage area networks are scalable, reliable and fine-tuned for all of your applications.
Our team of experts will assist you in determining not only your storage needs for today, but anticipate the bigger picture, including your storage needs for the next 3-5 years. In addition to this, our experts will ascertain the required I/O to support your applications on your storage.
It is typical for an organization's storage requirements to double every 12 months. If you're a progressive company that has embraced IP video and other rich services, your storage requirements could grow even faster.
Disaster Recovery
Unfortunately in today's society, disasters occur and are not limited to hardware failures. Organizations need comprehensive contingency and disaster recovery plans to keep their businesses responsive – even during a crisis. Whether it is a terrorist attack, an earthquake, a power outage, Katalyst understands these events and has devised strategies to ensure businesses stay operational despite the unforeseen circumstances.
We protect your data through methods of backup and replication that is secure and encrypted, accessible only to the employees with the appropriate permissions.
