Enterasys, the network infrastructure and security division of Siemens Enterprise Communications, today announced its vendor agnostic data centre strategy, and unveiled the first in a series of new offerings and partnerships to provide customers with open and highly automated data centre network solutions.
Enhanced automation functionality in the Enterasys S-Series “virtualises” network connectivity, eliminating the complexity of data centre network provisioning that can plague highly virtualised environments.
This functionality detects virtual machine changes and automatically configures application-specific network policies, priorities and bandwidth across both the virtual and physical environments. In stark contrast to solutions that require manual administrative intervention in response to virtual machine movements, this built-in automation reduces administrative overhead and complexity, ensures high application availability and provides a consistent end-user experience.
“As the enterprise increasingly moves toward fully virtualised data centres to streamline operations and reduce costs, IT organisations must reconcile server and network management applications that have historically operated as separate islands in the data centre,” said Steven J Schuchart Jr, principal analyst, Current Analysis. “The Enterasys data centre solution provides integrated visibility and decentralised control of physical and virtual data centre networks, enabling customers to provision servers and network services via a tightly integrated workflow and approval process tools.”
“With the Enterasys S-Series and Network Management Suite, we have a data centre solution with self-healing features and built-in redundancy to provide maximum reliability for our network,” said Matthew McEwen, vice-president at Stephens. “No other solution comes close to offering the range of capabilities to automatically apply the correct network settings to virtual machines and storage devices as they move within the data centre network. This type of visibility greatly reduces the time we spend managing the network, and allows us to provision servers and network services in a streamlined fashion.”
With data centre solutions that avoid the lock-you-in approach other vendors promote, Enterasys offerings are designed to optimise and interoperate with multiple virtualisation vendors, including Citrix, Microsoft and VMware; and multiple server and storage vendors, including Dell, HP and IBM. In the coming quarters, Enterasys will continue to fulfil its vision with additional customer-focused and vendor agnostic data centre networking solutions with a series of hardware, software and partnership announcements designed to provide customers with industry-leading automation and visibility features.
The Enterasys S-Series
The Enterasys S-Series enterprise Ethernet switching and routing solutions deliver a powerful combination of Terabit-class performance along with granular visibility and control over users, services and applications. Enterasys intelligent switching infrastructure devices utilise an industry leading built-in ability to store and apply service provisioning profiles to servers, virtual machines and storage devices. This ability to automatically apply device-specific profiles reduces operational costs because the infrastructure dynamically reapplies service policies when devices manually or automatically move between ports or switches, with customers realising greater than 50% reduction in network management time.
To learn more about Enterasys data centre networking solutions, please visit our Data Centre Solutions site.
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