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Why Cloud Computing?

Feb 25

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Cloud Computing provides a strong frame to a company to solve one of the most serious problem for IT industry that is Resource Planning. Every new company dreams of getting famous in few days and expect that new clients start using their services. . But for the IT department this can be nightmare because such flow of traffic will require more and more computing power than on any other day. Now to handle the situation if the company buys many computer equipments, than on an average day most of the machines will sit idle. From other point of view if the systems of a company are too weak to handle the load then they might crash leaving many clients and business in bizarre. This is where cloud computing comes into action. Cloud Computing allows a company to use as much as resources as they want and handle the sudden increase of traffic. And on the day when traffic is low company can save money by only using few machines and thus saving a lot of money. Computer equipments are not so costly how they used to be in past times, but the administration of machines is expensive. To solve this problem what Cloud Computing do is basically gathering large number of low cost computers, all other requirements like maintenance procedures and management of systems can all be automated. Therefore by using Cloud Computing you need very few administrators which can manage thousands of machine. Third and th most important advantage of Cloud Computing is that it is completely compatible to multiprocessor technology. This is basically because of the increased importance of technologies like virtualization and parallel programming. Single processors can not handle immense pressure of the increasing demand of fast processing. To face the situation hardware designers started building multi core chips with the prediction that number of core chips will increase on an exponential rate in near future. So available computers have to be parallel with the increasing computer processing power. This is eased by Cloud virtualization techniques which allows the processing power to be utilized properly and efficiently .

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Cloud Virtual Private Servers

Feb 10

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Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are one of the most kind of servers in the world. After dedicated hosting VPS hosting is the one most preferred by the clients.  Dedicated server is divided into several virtual slices and each of that slice acts like a small dedicated server. Users of one virtual server didn’t mess with virtual servers on the same dedicated server. Cloud hosting is another famous hosting package, it is considered as future of web hosting. In Cloud hosting multiple physical servers are connected in pool like formation, hosting resources are supplied on demand. From the customers point of view this whole pool looks like a single dedicated server with the resources as CPU, Disk space, RAM equal to hundreds of physical servers. The customers are charged on the basis of what they use, most like a modern electricity billing. Cloud hosting is definitive cost effective approach in hosting that’s why it is considered as future. Cloud Virtual Server is a combination of two best technologies in hosting world. A Cloud Virtual Private Servers are not hosted on a single dedicated server just like traditional VPS, instead it is hosted within cloud servers. Each physical server provides resources to each of the VPS created. Cloud VPS are considered as more reliable than normal because it is not attached to a single server. Slicing is done by all the servers thus making it failure proof hosting solution. A Cloud VPS server can be easily created with complete automation. Whole process of assigning and identifying cloud resources and creating VPS is done by central OS. All you have to do is few simple clicks and step sand your Cloud VPS will be ready to use. Taking this point into consideration many hosting providers charge their customers on a hourly basis.

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Importance of Data Center’s Location

Feb 9

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Most ideal locations for a data center is the one which have sufficient supply of electricity, near to vendor market and generally a cold place. Perfect site for Data Centers location is the one which is not prone to flood or any other natural calamities. Also it is better to avoid locations near to any air or water contaminating industries. One small but important point is to avoid tress which produce sap. If you are near to a cold lake or river which has no possibilities of harming the data centers than you can use the water as cooling agent thus total cooling cost will be reduced. All these points are important when you are building a data center. Most if the time data centers are used for the following purposes:

  • Data Storage
  • Application Hosting
  • Web 2.0 services
  • Streaming Video Source

To provide the above requirements of customers you need to think about latency and the demand of bandwidth. Bandwidth is more important than data storage. Data storage units which include normal servers as well as colocation servers, are often placed far away from each other for the reason if something disastrous happens simultaneous damage can be saved. But they shouldn’t be placed very far because there is need of synchronous file replication. Data centers which are totally dedicated to provide application hosting have all type of provision for the customers those who are running applications which requires heavy bandwidth like mail services. These kind of applications need well-organized transmission protocols. Some other applications where even a delay of millisecond can damage millions require high latency, like market data feeds for financial services. High latency is the requirement of the data center near to these business as they can’t afford delay. Web 2.0 applications are the strangest one as they include so many types, web storage, web services like security and confirmation. However only requirement of web 2.0 applications is tremendous high performance of connectivity out and inside data center.

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TCO for Cloud Computing

Feb 6

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We already saw what is Total Cost Ownership of a Data Centers. Cloud Computing a new kind of technology which is being considered as the future of hosting and webs world. Cloud Hosting has got many advantages over other traditional hosting services like VPS hosting, Shared Hosting or dedicated server hosting. Cloud Computing being a bit more economical then other hosting services so it will be more loved in developing countries and data centers in country like India will try to bring Cloud Servers in their specifications as soon as possible. So lets understand the Total Cost Ownership on Cloud Computing. TCO for a data center is different from TCO for Cloud since Cloud is completely different from other services offered by data centers. When you are running your business on some external cloud it is better to calculate the TCO required to run your business in external cloud as compared to the whole infrastructure. If the data center is insufficiently utilized then you will loss a lot of money. Mainly losses will be in Operation Exchange ( support staff, power, energy e.t.c.) and Capital Exchange (hardware requirements of the servers).

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How do you face the situation of over or under utilization? What costs are associated in running unoccupied server? What are the possible risks associated with over utilization? The question of over utilization is tricky as one side each company want to grow their business and sell as much as they can thus increasing utilization. But on the other side it is believed to be a good option to save some capacity for your future developments or in any urgent situation. If you have many colocation servers then this situation gets more complex. This situation cannot be measured in rupees or in any other currency as it depends on the costs and risk implicated in the case your service goes down.

Calculate the TCO for the whole infrastructure or for the part of your business which you are planning to be hosted on cloud. One you calculate TCO for your data center then only you can transform your business into utility computing model, which further can be compared to typical cloud services.

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Unseen Dangers of a Cheap Colocation Facility

Feb 3

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Final aim of a colocation facility is  to deliver 100% uptime, for this a colocation facility requires many other provisions like redundant power systems, sufficient cooling, and intelligent cooling. 100% uptime is impossible to imagine without these systems. When choosing a colocation facility always remember that there is something more important than money. There are few things to be checked about a data centers like:

  • Support and Security
  • Facility system maintenance should be planned and long term.
  • Whole infrastructure should be monitored properly.
  • Disaster Management

Security and Support

People working in a colocation facility has a big impact on the customers. There are many colocation facilities which operate remotely for saving cost, but the one which are manually operated have a different impact on customers. If your colocation facility is maintained and monitored by an expert team, it will surely help in increasing a reliability and uptime guarantee. Just like monitoring support of your colocation facility should also be there 24X7. Best data centers have a 24X7 support. Having an on-site personnel is like investing money in good deal, not only it will give customers a good impact about the facility but also it will help you to maintain and monitor your servers and any problems can be fixed more swiftly. Having maintenance without security is  useless and anybody can cause damage or harm to your data center. Security is an important feature for business round the globe let it be health management or gaming. It is important to secure your server because these server store valuable information of your customers. On-site personnel also plays an important role in security just like support.

Monitoring of servers 24X7

Monitoring servers round clock help in increasing uptime, and if you want to make your data center services available round the clock monitor servers 24X7. A low cost colocation facility cannot fulfill the need of 24X7 monitoring of your servers and thus making your servers susceptible to various failures and other power issues. On the other hand a superior class colocation facility offers you a application and server monitoring programs. with a high class facility issues like overuse, performance deviation and fluctuations can be detected easily. It is difficult to notify customers about the problems without monitoring. Mostly data centers cut costs in server maintenance.

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Top 10 Trends of Data Centers in 2010

Jan 30

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2010 will change many things about data center, it is expected that some powerful and strong technological advancements will change the view of data centers. 2010 will be completely different for data centers from the previous few years. Here are the few points which are expected to be changed in data centers:

  • Cooling System -  first and the most important one is cooling, slowly data centers are moving towards the liquid cooling. Credit for this change goes to IBM for bringing much revolutionary Z11 mainframe which are provided with water cooler options. It is believed that liquids are 4000 times more beneficial than air when it comes to removing heat. This kind of liquid cooling is suitable for the highest density deployments like (High Performance Computing) HPC.
  • Because of the reason that cooling, data feeds and power will be supplied from above the importance of raised floor plans will drop. Raised floors were never loved in the areas where rolling and static load is high. And after all it is much easier to deliver and maintain power inputs and cables from above.
  • Flywheels will take place of the traditional lead acid batteries and UPS for AC power protection executions. This is also important from the perspective of competence and preservation specially in the developed countries where rules are very strict about correct disposal of heavy metals.
  • Layout for the data center will change forever as the importance of manual patch pattern will reduce and will be replaced by join edge networks with some smart switching options.
  • DC power options will be more famous in data centers for the IT equipments. Some modern data centers will even offer both DC and AC options. This will help in utilizing better efficiency of DC and eventually increasing reliability.
  • Dependency on data center infrastructure will reduce as reliability will continuously sift towards application layer. Important basics will concentrate on repetition of the technology and high quality networks in order to allow swift migration of data between sites.
  • Backup generators will be replaced by new technology called CHP ( Combined Heat and Power) plant, specially in the data centers situated in city centers. This is because of the fact that power grids are no longer famous and efficient as they were few years ago.
  • Virtualization will continue to grow let it be network, server or storage. Operational efficiency will be replaced by operational flexibility and this will be important for the change in critical application space.
  • Colocation will loose importance to data centers hosting. Data centers hosting will be preferred by IT as a service offering since business will most probably shift to cloud computing models.
  • Locality of data centers will change and they will be no longer be in situated in outskirts of cities. Myth of choosing data centers near corporate headquarters will not be preferred any more. Moreover because of the power restrictions in city centers Data centers will be left with the choice of providing receptive applications only.

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Misconceptions about Automation in Data Center

Jan 28

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Automation brings many benefits to the data center like better service levels, less operational costs and above all an improved performance for the data center. But still organizations are afraid of adapting to data center automation. Ignoring the current some of the advancements made in automation in data centers previous developments added pointless complications and frailty to the whole process which resulted in some misconceptions about the data center. Some of the most common misconceptions about automation in data center are as follows -

Large amount of money is needed for professional consultants and services.

This is one of the common disbelief about automation in data center that you need a large staff of experts and various types of services to start automation in data center. With a commonly available automation tool your technical staff can easily start the automation progress and within few days can start production. This as simple as it looks you don’t need long scripts, coding, or any kind of special development.

Automation will result in job loss of many employees

There is no need of evaluating whether your staff is talented enough to handle all the projects you have. IT staff is not removed by automation, instead it frees the staff from some of the important repetitive tasks. Once free from such tasks they can concentrate on other important and logical working processes which will be helpful in development of business.

Automation will increase complexity

Automation is not for increasing complexity but it eased down many processes. Another common misconception about data center automation is that it is not for all the processes. Automation offer flexibility and it can automate whole process or few steps within a process, whichever suits you better. Also in both the ways you can add checkpoints at suitable intervals to make it more simple.

Automation will change everything

Automation works in such a process that it will increase productivity and won’t change your process significantly. A successful automation tool will help you to automate and arrange all your existing process taking care of the operational measures which are followed in your company.

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Virtualized, Green and Efficient Data Center

Jan 27

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What are the requirements of a Effective, Green and Competent Virtual Data Center? You will get the answer to the question in below given paragraphs. A data center can be made virtual, efficient and green by referring to various necessities and matters. The best technique to merge the less utilized resources of the IT equipments like I/O networks, Servers, Storage, decrease cooling demands, and reduce consumption of energy. Virtuality and Green these two terms are seen as future solution for every business around the world. Likewise Data Centers which are green and virtualized are called as next generation data centers and they are better than other data centers in performance. Also these kind of Data Centers are supple, flexible, economical and environmental friendly. Today only virtualization is the solution for to solidify there business and customer service, but in the future there are wide chances of other technologies to grow as well which will help data centers to improve the quality of application service provided by them, with the conditions of reducing costs and not negotiating with the performance factors such as ability or availability required for processing and storing more data.

In order to improve the performance of the data center Virtualization and Cloud needs software as well as physical resources. These available physical and software resources are responsible for economical and environmental friendly performance of a data center. Worldwide components of green and virtualized data center are as follows:

  • Services, hardware resources, and software options should be installed on wide area, remote and local basis.
  • Processes, rules, best practices, and procedures should be followed in order to enhance the performance.
  • Managements should also measure the effectiveness of service delivery and resource usage.
  • Servers, racks, software, storage devices, I/O networks accesses and data protection layers all should be arranged in a tiered manner.

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There are many points which are expected from Green, Virtualized, and Cloud Data Centers. The list goes like that:

  • Should be fast in controlling and adapting to the new technological advancements.
  • Without the increasing cost and loosing performance it should maintain efficiency and effectiveness.
  • With the factors of energy efficient and environmentally friendly it should be economical in maintaining.
  • Automation is required throughout the data center and it should be seen as information plant not like a money eating center.
  • Secure from any kind of known risk to the data center let it be mechanical or physical.
  • Most important of all should be flexible, stable, easy to scale changes, and should be self healing.

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TCO for a Data Center

Jan 26

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Before starting a business it is important for you to predict the Total Cost Ownership (TCO). TCO becomes more important in the business of Data Centers and Colocation facilities. For the data center you need to measure the total cost ownership for network rooms and complete physical infrastructure. TCO helps you in predicting your future decisions and also what is your Return-on-investment and also TCO helps you in controlling your costs. Like other businesses there are no special methods of predicting TCO for Data Centers. Instead there are simple methods of calculating operating expenses and other capital investments which will help you find out total cash expenditure. There is a disadvantage for this technique however it is unable to provide you complete utilization of the equipment. Say for example there are two data centers same in infrastructure and both of them are using 500kW of energy. First data center is using all the power and space and housing large computer systems and equipments, while the other is just housing few racks. Now the cash of operating is same for the two data centers, but the revenue generated and the investments returned are completely different. For the first data center whole TCO is divided amongst the large IT equipments. On the other hand in the second data center whole weight of the operating cost is on those few racks. In such case if you calculate TCO for network room infrastructure or complete physical infrastructure from the standpoint of positive work done in relevance of total IT equipment supported underperformance can cost you very much and your profit ratio will fall. most of the processes to find out TCO starts with calculating TCO per square foot of data center or per kW of data center. However these kind of scales fails when it comes to determining useful work done.

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One unit of data center which is easily and commonly understood by rack unit. From a facility point of view all the important parts of a data center can be well managed like area, power and cooling. Now one can easily understand quantity IT equipment and the functionality that can be fitted in a rack. Because of the ease which is provided by racks to the customers and owners in understanding the facility performance, facility infrastructure is expressed in terms of “Rack Units.” So the actual definition of the term “rack” is rack enclosure or open frame rack. According to researches normally data center can only utilize only 30% of its capacity. Although there are some data center which utilizes up to 90% of energy, but then there are some which are using only 10% of energy. Utilization of power in a data center fluctuates during its lifetime in a relative consistent style. For the first five years power required grows on a regular level and then remains constant later on. To find put Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) you require a large data. TCO calculates average cost of installation, equipment, operating and engineering costs. To determine all these factors you need exact data of power rating, life cycle, power density, redundancy, and average rack power. Find out all these factors accurately and you will be able to calculate TCO for your data center. Average cost utilization for a data center looks like that -  Racks 2%, Service 15%, space 18%, Monitoring 2%, Project Management 2%, Power 20%, Cooling 5%, Installation 15%,  and Electricity 20%.

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Understand Cloud Computing?

Jan 13

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It is not necessary that you have to be a tech guy to learn about Cloud Computing, nowadays everybody knows everything about  Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is just like the previous technologies which changed the whole concept of web world, like Internet, Web 2.0 and wireless computing. They completely changed the way we work and live. These technologies made it easier for us to make our way into public consciousness using articles, magazines and other polar press items. Cloud Computing helped tech industry rejuvenating, authorizing consumers and making the field equal for small and large business. But before going for Cloud Computing you should analyze what your business need. Cloud Computing can be different for business that  is lively and can be different for dormant one. The conduit to liveliness needs a change of attitude from internal to external internet based technologies. This what is known as Evergreen IT. According to this new definition there is no option for working systems where heavy work is done using old systems that are so costly and complex that often people change their business. Evergreen IT generates possible ways to energizing new IT capabilities that works perfectly for your business and that to without disturbing your business path. There are three basic concepts of Cloud Computing, it helps us to understand what are the sore points of business for the large organizations. But first we should understand what Cloud Computing really is? It’s a basically a model in which a company outsources the management and ownership of the some part of the companies IT.

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