Data Center Consolidation in Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin
Data center consolidation is a way to reduce the costs related to maintaining equipment held within a data center. Consolidation usually includes the reduction of physical rack mounted or floor standing servers by implementing the use of blade servers and/or a virtualization initiative. By reducing the number of devices and cabling in the data center, the costs of electrical usage, systems cooling and physical space requirements are reduced. Reducing the number of devices also equates to less staff time needed to maintain the equipment. These savings allow funds and time to be allocated to explore and expand services and resources to better serve the company.
A virtual server environment has multiple levels of redundancy to provide for high fault tolerance. The server blades can use a Storage Area Network (SAN) for virtual system and data storage, which provides fault tolerance from the SAN to the blades and virtual servers. Virtualization inherently provides high availability by dynamically moving virtual machines to the least busy host server and in the event of a server failure automatically restarts a virtual machine on another host. Blade servers can be directly connected to fault tolerant network switches which connect to the network backbone.
Storage consolidation can help you transform your IT environment and dramatically increase your ability to add value to your business. Regardless of how you approach it, Tushaus offers integrated consolidation solutions that can help your organization standardize and simplify your storage environment in a flexible, systematic way.
Contact us to learn how the Tushaus team can use Data Center Consolidation to reduce your IT operating costs and free up technical staff while increasing redundancy for your organization.