Root Cellar Solutions and Services
UTILITY COMPUTING
Utility computing begins with a reliable and redundant data centre infrastructure.
The majority of data centres today are populated with underutilized hardware platforms
rigidly tied to specific applications. The result is a complex environment leading
to a significant total cost of ownership.
Utility computing allows IT to run any application, on any resource, at any time
– ideally automatically, significantly improving overall infrastructure
efficiency.
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BLADE
SERVERS
Slim, hot swappable blade servers fit in a single chassis – and each
is an independent server, with it’s own processor(s), memory, (storage),
network controllers, OS and applications. The blade server simply slides into
a bay in the chassis and plugs into a mid or backplane sharing power, fans, switches
and ports with other blade servers.
• Affordable density – fewer components,
less U
• Fast Deployment – assign server personality
immediately
• Easy maintenance – all hot swappable
components
• Modular scalability – scale out, not
up
• Flexible availability – mix different
processor technologies in same chassis
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SERVER
CONSOLIDATION
Server consolidation is the first step towards creating an IT infrastructure
that’s ready to meet the needs of utility computing. A consolidated and
optimized infrastructure environment can better enable IT to deliver on it’s
promise to help drive new business and new revenue opportunities by allowing IT
to be more responsive.
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VIRTUALIZATION
Virtualization is a data centre provisioning and orchestration tool that enables
utility computing or the ability to rapidly commission and de-commission shared
pools of servers and I/O resources on demand. Create virtual compute services
by programming server switches to map diskless servers to a shared pool of I/O
resources.
Virtualization as applied to an individual server is an abstraction layer that
decouples the physical hardware from the OS to deliver greater IT resource utilization
and flexibility.
Dramatically reduce total cost of ownership by enabling administrators to provision
infrastructure resources in seconds; reduce data centre downtime via automated
server fail-over and centralized I/O.
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SERVER
SWITCH
Connecting Infiniband with Ethernet and Fibre Channel Gateways – the
Server Switch. Multifabric server switches combine a high performance Infiniband
server interconnect with Ethernet and Fibre Channel gateways to allow an entire
fabric of servers to share virtual pools of I/O and storage resources. Server
switch technology provides a powerful foundation for automated server provisioning
– a key component of utility computing.
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UNIFIED
STORAGE
Consolidated, standardized, and centrally managed SAN, IP SAN and NAS storage.
Unified storage facilitates the deployment of a single, integrated, storage solution.
This enables you to focus on application requirements rather than technology,
while ensuring that your storage network will be capable of seamlessly supporting
your long-term storage needs. Unified enterprise storage systems function as "unification
engines" that simultaneously support Fibre Channel and IP storage area networks
(SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS): automatically, significantly improving
overall infrastructure efficiency.
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FABRIC-ATTACHED
STORAGE
Fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems integrate easily into complex enterprise
environments and provide shared access to UNIX®, Windows®, Linux, and
Web data while simultaneously supporting Fibre Channel SAN, IP SAN (iSCSI), and
NAS. These high performance systems have a proven ability to continuously serve
data at higher than 99.99% availability, and can scale from 50GB to many terabytes
using Serial ATA and/or Fibre Channel disk drives.
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IP SAN
(iSCSI)
iSCSI is a TCP/IP-based storage protocol that enables the creation of IP SANs.
An IP SAN is a storage area network (SAN) that uses familiar, easy-to-configure,
affordable Ethernet infrastructure. IP SANs deliver all of the consolidation,
scalability, and management benefits of SANs and are particularly well suited
to replace proliferating direct-attached storage environments where a Fibre Channel
SAN solution would be too costly or too complex. IP SANs storage provides a single
integrated data management and protection environment supporting customers' long-term
storage needs across platforms, applications, and geographies.
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STORAGE
CONSOLIDATION
Managing storage has become a primary concern in datacenter environments.
Many enterprises have significant investments in multiple storage architectures—Direct
Attached Storage (DAS), SAN, and/or NAS—to meet the storage needs of multiple
corporate, departmental, and remote-office databases. The result is often an inefficient,
expensive, and underutilized storage environment. A critical IT management challenge
is to maximize the usage of existing storage to improve efficiency and return
on investment (ROI). IT departments can substantially reduce total cost of ownership
(TCO) and improve storage utilization for the enterprise by consolidating disparate
storage onto unified storage appliances.
Storage consolidation solutions simplify management, increase availability,
heighten productivity, and reduce costs, bringing availability, reliability, and
efficiency to collaborative environments. File sharing, database, and messaging
applications are critical to successful enterprise operations. System downtime,
unavailable data, or hindered processes affect a company's success. To support
increasingly complex and distributed environments, many organizations are challenged
with managing a growing proliferation of servers and dispersed data storage.
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BACKUP
& RECOVERY (DATA PROTECTION)
Root Cellar’s data protection solutions offer the ultimate data security
in a heterogeneous environment, simplifying complex backup and recovery tasks;
reducing data storage requirements; ensuring rapid, complete disaster recovery;
and leveraging existing data protection investments. These solutions not only
help ensure that mission-critical data are backed up, replicated, and accessible,
but also enable organizations to completely retrieve data after such unplanned
events as user error, system failure, and operational outages.
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ENCRYPTION
Encrypted storage security appliances enable agencies and departments to consolidate
their data into shared infrastructures, without endangering the security of their
data. Stored data are compartmentalized, and protected by strong AES-256 encryption.
Individual departments can maintain complete control over encryption keys and
access authorization, and securely delete all copies of data regardless of location.
This arrangement helps IT organizations realize significant cost savings and flexibility
through storage and network consolidation, and enables departments to leverage
centralized data center resources and share data without compromising security.
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NETWORK
INFRASTRUCTURE
Bandwidth requirements are going to increase dramatically as next generation
bandwidth intense applications are on the horizon. Providing interconnectivity
of devices, individuals, applications and locations and delivering bandwidth on
demand it going to be critical for IT organizations wanting to meet the service
levels their organizations require.
Root Cellar’s network solutions offer integration of the traditional
Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks with Infiniband (IB) the new data centre core
networking architecture.
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SECURITY
(IPS, A/V, F/W)
Constant network based threats require that companies provide complex security
solutions to detect and mitigate attacks. The selection of appropriate solutions
is a daunting task. Root Cellar focuses on the integration of Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam,
Intrusion Prevention and other security solutions.
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OPTIMIZATION
With soaring amounts of data being transferred over the external networks and
the high costs associated with these external communications methods interfacing
your internal core and branch networks to the Wide Area Network (WAN) is costly.
You need to get optimal performance yet maintain a quality of service for critical
applications and functions. Root Cellar’s application acceleration solutions
provide secure and assured application delivery. Organizations benefit from productivity
gains realized across the full gamut of business applications, including Web-enabled
applications, regardless of a user's location. They provide substantial operational
savings, enabling a "zero footprint" branch office architecture, centralized
management, and simplified troubleshooting. They also provide capital savings
by reducing Web and application servers, application licenses, distributed file
and e-mail servers, data centers, and WAN circuit costs. IT also gains tremendous
application visibility, across the enterprise, in data centers and branch offices,
and to remote users.
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data management solutions
IRDM
– INFORMATION RETENTION AND DISCOVERY MANAGEMENT
Our proven solutions for Information Retention and Discovery Management (IRDM)
enable leading organizations to capture, preserve and access unstructured digital
information — including email, IM, files, scanned documents and other electronic
records. ZANTAZ' solutions also enable organizations to review and produce relevant
documents in a manner that reduces operational risk and costs while complying
with legal, regulatory and business policy requirements.
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ARCHIVING
Unquestionably, email has become a critical tool for efficient business communications.
However, today's enterprises face huge challenges with overtaxed email and file
servers, system downtime, expensive infrastructure overhead and administration,
reduced employee productivity, and exposure to corporate compliance risks. File
and Email Archiving Solutions optimize storage resources, reduce IT overhead and
increase end-user productivity — while ensuring the long-term retention
and instant retrieval of email and files in the event of a regulatory investigation
or discovery request.
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BUSINESS
CONTINUITY / DISASTER RECOVERY
The basic premise of any business continuity plan relies on the ability to
effectively Backup and Recover and Replicate corporate data both in the core and
remote locations.
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BACKUP
AND RECOVERY
Regardless of the type or size of your business, backup solutions must protect
your critical data, simplify the management of data backup and recovery, and provide
consistent, reliable data protection. As your business grows and requirements
change, you can cost-effectively upgrade, add options, and extend solutions.
As today’s storage environments change, legacy backup and recovery products
seem outdated, rigid, and expensive to administer. The changing storage trends
are driving the need for new ways of managing backup and recovery—and for
new storage management software.
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REPLICATION
Replication is an essential component for disaster recovery. It provides the
ability to duplicate an organization's critical data to another location and maintain
data consistency within and among volumes to deliver uncompromised data integrity
at secondary locations, whether operating in synchronous or asynchronous mode.
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COMPLIANCE
Compliance is one of the most important issues faced by any company in a regulated
industry. A complex, ever-shifting challenge, it involves implementation of the
right technology solutions and the consistent application of policies, procedures
and processes throughout your organization. Failure to meet your industry's regulations
can have devastating results — from steep fines and unwanted exposure to
criminal prosecution.
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LITIGATION
As legal teams continue to face the rising number of cases involving electronic
records and discovery, they are realizing the staggering costs and complexity
involved in managing and executing the discovery process. But electronic data
discovery is just one piece of the puzzle. Once you've restored your electronic
data, you need a single, unified litigation support system that allows your entire
team to review, annotate, redact, integrate bates numbering and produce your data
throughout the entire litigation process. You need a solution that can handle
native and scanned files, and can integrate with your existing document management
system.
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ASSESSMENTS
Organizations often require assistance in defining what technological infrastructure
is optimally configured in their environment. Assessment services can span the
following areas: Security, Network, Storage, Computing, Performance, Application
Design, Software Deployment, and Database Architecture.
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DISASTER
RECOVERY PLANNING
In order to ensure that organizations can stay operational in times of planned
or un-planned outages with their Technology Infrastructure, it is appropriate
to have complete and tested Disaster Recovery Plans in place. This solution enables
organizations to rely upon extensive experience with planning for any and all
failures with defined recovery timeframes.
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BUSINESS
CONTINUITY PLANNING
Ensuring that organizations can continue to operate in the event of a business
interruption is critical. Complete Business Continuity Planning ensures that all
critical, and non-essential (as required) services can be brought back into an
operational status within specified recovery times.
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SECURITY
A complete understanding of all components of security is needed if organizations
are to be protected from external and internal threats. Complete security assessment,
design, implementation, and monitoring capabilities are available. Additionally,
robust testing of this infrastructure can be performed to ensure that vulnerabilities
do not exist via Ethical Penetration Testing, and Physical Vulnerability Tests.
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COMPLIANCE
In ensuring that an organization is protected from numerous threats, and legal
obligations, compliancy issues need to be addressed. A complete review of all
compliance criteria can be performed with detailed observations and recommendations
made as a result of this analysis.
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