The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has chosen Scalent Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE) software for use in its disaster recovery sites. Scalent V/OE will enable the SEC to transition servers and associated network and storage connectivity between virtualized test use and bare-metal production use in real-time, dramatically improving efficiency and asset utilization while maintaining reliability and reducing overall costs.

The SEC, like many of today's data center owners, faced escalating costs, security, and reaction-time challenges resulting in a lack of IT agility in the face of rapidly changing operational demands. This resulted in immense expenditure to maintain both system test capabilities (QA Test infrastructure) and system backup capabilities (standby server infrastructure) because the physical and virtual machines, network, and storage connectivity couldn't be rapidly shifted between tasks.

To improve this situation the SEC chose Scalent V/OE software. Scalent's software is unique in that it enables data center operations owners to rapidly move full images and connectivity, across virtual or physical infrastructure, x86 or SPARC-based. Scalent V/OE can change entire systems of servers and associated topologies all without physical intervention.

"The SEC demands absolute reliability, so trading off between having infrastructure available for DR or test machines wouldn't be an option. What's unique is that by implementing Scalent software, the SEC can maintain the same reliability with greater efficiency, by enabling real-time repurposing of a single physical infrastructure," said George Crump, principal analyst, Storage Switzerland. "Scalent V/OE software thus plays a critical role in the SEC's strategy by allowing them to deploy entire multi-tier applications - server software stacks and associated network topologies - in a matter of minutes. They'll no longer need to re-image, re-cable, or re-configure to run production vs. test, different network connectivity, or bare-metal physical vs. virtual infrastructure, and that flexibility represents an immense advantage."

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•Date: 22nd October 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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