Johannesburg, 14 Nov 2016
Businesses are continuously looking to adjust IT practices to improve operational efficiencies and reduce overall costs. The operational processes of current data centre environments create numerous challenges. This includes an increasing number of devices and solutions in the data centre across multiple geographical locations, complex solutions comprising several technologies with cross-dependent configuration and solutions that integrate with one another.
The virtualisation of the data centre adds another layer of complexity in managing and maintaining appliances and applications. The application is hosted in an environment that includes multiple form factors such as physical standalone appliances, modular chassis-based solutions with integrated modules, and software-based virtual appliances. The flexibility and ease of deployment for virtual versions of applications introduces the challenge of managing and maintaining your application instance inventory at all times.
More solutions and technologies are continuously being added to the application delivery infrastructure. Tools are available to accelerate Web content, offer application-level security, and perform high-speed encryption/decryption. Business policies need to be centrally defined and applied to all of the policies through the solutions equally and consistently. Data centre operators need to manage, synchronise and maintain configurations and policies across multiple devices, even as these devices are added and removed in the newly created virtualised environment.
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