The Hindu Business Line : Symantec solution for data centres

Coimbatore, March 3 The growing IT infrastructure complexity, mounting performance demands and cost pressures pose a real challenge to the Chief Technology Officers.

How do the CTOs cope? “Data centre standardisation would help tackle this issue by transforming IT from a cost centre to a service organisation,” says the Chief Technology Officer of Symantec India Mr Basant Rajan.

To help understand ‘standardisation’, he cited the three pedals in a car, namely, the clutch, the brake and the accelerator, in the order in which they are arranged, and asked “what will happen if you know to drive, are familiar with this arrangement, but find that the order reversed/changed?”

Standardisation in a data centre, he explained, “does something similar, irrespective of the hardware.”

Technical challenges

“As a company grows, the suppliers’ list grows and each works on different platforms such as Sun, and HP.

This heterogeneous computing environment is not only difficult to manage but also adds to costs,” he continued.

“Symantec helps companies address such technical challenges of infrastructure complexity, by working with major software vendors, supporting storage and server device and major applications,” Mr Rajan said, and clarified that the company had no hardware agenda.

“Our products support heterogeneity and are vendor-independent, he said, and pointed out that the demands on data centres was tending to peak with growing storage and server capacity and without increased IT budget.

Storage utilisation

Symantec helps organisations consolidate and migrate data centre facilities, reduce the number of disparate products from multiple vendors and eliminate wasteful server and storage overcapacity through optimised asset management.

“In large data centres where the storage utilisation levels are low, the Command Central Storage helps find orphaned storage and thereby improve operational efficiency,” he said.

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