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IDC's traditional Storage, Virtualization, and Datacenter Roadshow has established itself as a recognized regional platform for exchanging experience, ideas, and best practices between storage solution users, independent experts, and industry leaders. Through keynote presentations, case studies, exhibition displays, discussion, and networking, the event aims to help participants explore ways to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and achieve higher ROI by looking beyond speeds, capacities, and power consumption.
Visiting 10 cities in the fast-developing region of Middle East, Turkey and Africa the IDC Storage, Virtualization and Datacenter Roadshow provides a comprehensive look at current data storage and management issues, with a focus on the most critical themes, such as:
Virtualization: Virtualization has quickly become one of the most pressing issues for IT investment. It allows organizations to easily encapsulate existing applications into silos that can be moved between physical servers. Virtual machines can be used to consolidate the workloads of several under-utilized servers to fewer machines, even a single machine. The real benefits of such a process are overall savings on hardware, environmental costs, and the management and administration of the server infrastructure.
Consolidation: Storage consolidation is the concept of centralizing and sharing storage resources among numerous application servers. The objective is to facilitate data backup and archiving for all subscribers in an enterprise, while minimizing the time required to access and store data and solve the growing data demands dictated by information-rich business environments.
Managed Services: Managed services are increasingly playing a key role the region. Today, most organizations rely on an external service provider for at least some portion of their IT- and communications-related services. As ICT environments increase in complexity so are organizations looking to Managed Services Providers to support them in managing their ICT environment.
Information Life-Cycle Management: Information life-cycle management (ILM) has become the latest trend in the storage industry. ILM represents a major shift in the approach towards creating and managing a storage infrastructure and the data it maintains. It is crucial to understand that ILM is not a technology; it is a combination of processes and technologies that determine how data flows through an environment. It helps end users manage data from the moment it is created to the time it is no longer needed.
Green Datacenter: A green datacenter is a warehouse for the storage, management, and dissemination of data in which the systems are designed to create maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact. Building and certifying a green datacenter or other facility can be expensive up front, but long-term cost savings can be realized on operations and maintenance. Its advantage is the fact that green facilities offer employees a healthy and comfortable working environment. In addition, green facilities enhance relations with local communities. |
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