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Expecting the Unexpected - New Asian Network Infrastructure Considerations for Virtualization

By: Gregory Smyth

It's a truth that beatniks and hippies well understand - everything is connected. Even when it comes to more earthly considerations, such as IT and computing, this is true!

Virtualization is one of the biggest developments in the Asian communications solutions industry recently - but it has a huge impact not only on the IT consultants, but on all areas of the organization. We look at the areas outside IT that will have to deal with changes when virtualization rears its efficient, over-capable head.

Power and cooling requirements for data centers is set to change at an incredible rate with the advent of virtualization. Even pre-cloud computing, Asian network operations specialists and information technology infrastructure builders have had to deal with a 600% increase in the electrical requirements of data centers per square foot of space, within 8 years.

Even in the four years from 2002 to 2006, the average jumped from 2,000 watts per square foot to 5,000 watts per square foot, more than doubling power requirements and heat density. Virtual server architecture requires your Asian data storage solutions firm to plan for space, cooling, and of course power, differently than in a discrete special-purpose server environment.

A baseline power and cooling analysis is a good place to start the changes, as well as mapping the information to the potential target server configurations. One of the trickiest aspects of power and cooling planning for Asian virtual network infrastructure providers is the variable of load portability. Load per server cannot be accurately planned, as it will vary wildly, so all systems need to be able to handle the maximum possible load.

The management of the virtual environment is also infinitely more complex than managing a physical server environment, due to the abstract nature of the system. An understanding of trends within the system needs to be comprehensively developed, so that possible impacts can be considered before they occur. This work can be outsourced to Asian network performance monitors, for greater operational efficiency, if required.

Asian IT security consulting firms have also seen an explosion in potential with the wide-scale implementation of cloud computing. Containment, isolation, availability and deception can all be used to enhance data security, and all come built in with a standard virtual machine. However, the greater importance of each virtual machine (as it has many more applications and virtual servers running off one central location), means that security operations are even more critical.

With a move towards the operational efficiencies of virtualization, there will also be training and development inevitably required for on-site staff. A physical server environment is an entirely different kettle of fish to a virtual environment - the technology has been upgraded, and the operating processes need to be upgraded and changed also.

Disaster recovery and backups must be modified, and the published best practices and guidelines must change as well. Asian network operations specialists can be of enormous value in the retraining and process creation phases.

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