Virtualization Services

ZSL is a leading provider of IT Virtualization and Consolidation technologies and services to companies worldwide. We specialize in helping organizations utilize emerging technologies to solve their critical business challenges.

We are proud to call ourIT Infrastructure Consolidation and Virtualization Service as 'Greenware'.

Our Greenware package offers IT Infrastructure consolidation and virtualization consulting, design, implementation and testing services to the enterprises. Greenware helps our enterprise customers to implement and promote energy-efficient technologies and hardware infrastructure that will enable continued progress while minimizing and even reversing damage to our earth.

Why Greenware?

Many organizations are consolidating, or centralizing, IT today using the Virtualization technologies in order to reduce the server farms thus minimizes the power and cooling systems utilization.. Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples the physical hardware from the operating system to deliver greater IT resource utilization and flexibility.

IT consolidation provides many benefits, including simpler, easier to manage applications and infrastructure. But accelerating application performance is key to a successful IT centralization project. Application performance optimization is an important component of consolidation because users are required to perform many more transactions over the wide area network than before.

Go Greenware Benefits

• Multiple applications and operating systems can be supported within a single physical system
• 60-80% utilization rates for x86 servers up from today's 5-15%
• Servers can be consolidated into virtual machines on either a scale-up or scale-out architecture
• New applications provisioned in tens of seconds, not days
• Computing resources are treated as a uniform pool to be allocated to virtual machines in a controlled manner
• Virtual machines are completely isolated from the host machine and other virtual machines. If a virtual machine crashes, all others are unaffected
• Change request response times measured in minutes
• Data does not leak across virtual machines and applications can only communicate over configured network connections
• Complete virtual machine environment is saved as a single file; easy to back up, move and copy
• Zero-downtime hardware maintenance without waiting for maintenance windows
• Standardized virtualized hardware is presented to the application - guaranteeing compatibility

Greenware Implementation Expertise

Our VMware Engineering team simplifies the complex design and implementation issues of the Virtualization so companies leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond faster. The VMware based virtual infrastructure approach to IT management creates virtual services out of the physical IT infrastructure, enabling administrators to allocate these virtual resources quickly to the business units that need them most. Our Hardware management is completely separated from software management, and hardware equipment can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage and networking power to be allocated and de-allocated on the fly to various software services.

Our expertise in implementing high performance enterprise application using GigaSpaces’ development platform delivers unparalleled dynamic scalability for high-volume transactional applications, without the overhead and complexity inherent in traditional multi-tier development & deployment environments. GigaSpaces’ innovative “space-based architecture” combines advanced services such as distributed data caching, distributed messaging bus, parallel processing, and grid-enablement with open standards and cross-language support to enable a “write once, scale anywhere” approach to the development and deployment of distributed applications.

ZSL uses Azul Systems’ Appliances which are based on multi-core chip technology is designed to handle processing-intensive workloads associated with dynamic web-based applications by creating a shared pool of compute and memory resources. The technology yields improved power and cooling performance and more predictable service levels. The Azul Compute Appliances enables transparent, massively scalable infrastructure that supports the business priorities of today’s most demanding enterprise environments and delivers increased capabilities, capacity and utilization at a fraction of the cost of traditional computing models.

Greenware offers the flexibility to the Mid-Size Enterprises to leverage their Microsoft Windows based infrastructure in conjunction with Windows Server 2003, Virtual Server 2005 by implementing the virtualization platform that runs most major x86 operating systems in a guest environment, and is supported by Microsoft as a host for Windows Server operating systems and Windows Server System applications. Virtual Server 2005's comprehensive COM API, in combination with the Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) format and support for virtual networking, provide administrators complete scripted control of portable, connected virtual machines and enable easy automation of deployment, and ongoing change and configuration.

ZSL is proud to be a certified partner of Compellent (NYSE: CML).  Compellent’s Storage Center represents the Next Generation of SAN technology, offering unparalleled ease use, flexibility and the lowest TCO in the industry (Gartner).  

Storage Center is designed to significantly lower storage and infrastructure capital expenditures, reduce the skill level and number of personnel required to manage information and enable continuous data availability and storage virtualization through the use of sophisticated software and a modular standards-based hardware approach which eliminates forklift upgrades.

As of January 31, 2008, Storage Center was being utilized by more than 1,000 organizations worldwide, across a wide variety of industries including education, financial services, government, healthcare, insurance, legal, media, retail, technology and transportation.

Compellent was named ‘Best SAN’ by InfoWorld for the second year in a row.

Dynamic Block Architecture

Compellent’s Dynamic Block Architecture is the underlying technology that enables all of Compellent’s many industry first capabilities. A block is the lowest level of data granularity within any storage system. Dynamic Block Architecture allows Storage Center to record and track specific information about each block of data and provides intelligence on how that block is being used.

Virtualization:

Dynamic Block Architecture enables end users to create a shared storage pool, by creating Virtual Volumes across all disk drives in the array, regardless of drive type or size.  This sophisticated technology does away with the inefficient practice of allocating specific disks to a Volume and RAID set, and the resultant over-provisioning of storage resources.  With Storage Center’s virtualization capability, raw capacity is equal to used capacity, and allocated but unused storage space is a thing of the past.

Automated Information Lifecycle management:

Compellent is the only SAN vendor today that offers an Automated ILM capability.  Called Data Progression, Storage Center’s Dynamic Block Architecture allows for automatic movement of blocks of data, within the volume, between tiers of high cost, high performance storage to tiers of lower cost high capacity storage.  Industry analysts estimate that 70% to 80% of stored data is 'inactive' after two weeks of being written to disk.  Data Progression provides a way to save substantially on CapEx by moving this data, without user intervention, to lower cost disks.

Learn more from these brief 5 minute videos:

http://www.compellent.com/Demos-and-Downloads/Videos/Automated-Tiered-Storage.aspx

http://www.compellent.com/Demos-and-Downloads/Videos/Fast-Track.aspx

SnapShots:

Storage Center’s Snap Shot capability, called Data Instant Replay is the only Snapshot software that delivers near instant recovery from any point in time. Leveraging Dynamic Block Architecture, pointer based Snapshots overcome the limitations, capacity overhead, complexity and performance issues attended with copy on write approaches to Snapshots. Create and store frequent Replays (snapshots) at any time interval with minimal storage capacity and minimal performance degradation. Recover any size volume to any server in less than 10 seconds, without any of the traditional snapshot restraints.

Remote Replication:

Most organizations would like to implement a DR strategy, but costs and complexity deter such an implementation.  Compellent’s Remote Instant Replay delivers Enterprise Class Disaster Recovery without the traditional costs and complexity.

Remote Instant Replay replicates continuous snapshots, called "Replays" between local and remote sites, ensuring business continuity at a fraction of the cost of other replication solutions. Using Compellent's wizard-based setup, customers are only 6 clicks away from a replication solution. Cost-effective IP-based replication, brings disaster recovery within reach of every business.

Datasheets and One-Pagers:

Read these Datasheets and One-Pagers to find out more information on product features and technical specifications.

Datasheets:

Data Center Virtualization with VMware:  The optimal storage platform for server virtualization

Data Instant Replay: The only Snapshot Software that delivers instant recovery from any point in time

Data Progression: The Industry's only SAN with Automated Tiered Storage

Dynamic Capacity: Thin Provisioning that delivers the highest utilization rate in the Industry

Enterprise Manager: Powerful S R M Software that simplifies administration and planning to reduce operational costs

Fast Track Datasheet: The First SAN to Automate Tiered Storage Within Every Drive

NAS: The benefits of unified SAN and NAS storage.

QuickStart ILM: Delivering Simplified Information Lifecycle Management

Remote Instant Replay: Thin Replication delivers Enterprise Disaster Recovery without the traditional cost or complexity

Replay Manager: Consistent and Reliable Replays While Windows Server Applications Remain Online

Server Instant Replay:  Highlights of the complete boot from SAN solution

Storage Center:  The Industry's only SAN with Automated Tiered Storage

Storage Center Technical Specifications:  In depth details about Storage Center's hardware and software features

One Pagers:

Storage Center: The only SAN so sophisticated, it's simple

Why Compellent: Revolutionary product, extraordinary results

Data Center Virtualization: The  optimal storage platform for virtual servers 

Enterprise Manager One-Pager:  Unmatched Control and Simplicity for your Compellent SAN

Remote Instant Replay:  Redefining Disaster Recovery with Thin Replication 

Server Instant Replay: IDC's essential guidance on Compellent's product development strategy, market positioning and outlook.

Whitepapers:

ESG Lab Validation Report: Storage Center v4.0: Sophisticated  Storage Simplicity.  February 2008  

Taneja Group Report: A hands-on validation of Compellent’sstorage virtualization architecture.
January 2008  

Raising the SAN Value Proposition By Automating Tiered Data Migration July 2006

This report provides an excellent overview of Compellent’s SAN with detailed descriptions of Virtualization, Dynamic Block Architecture, and key software application with special attention being given to Data Progression.

Total Cost of Ownership: Seven Ways to Lower Storage TCO.  January 2008 

OpenBench Labs Analysis: Raising the SAN Value Proposition via Simplified Virtual Server Management.  November 2007

This report analyzes how Compellent's virtualized storage system provides automated storage management technologies such as Replays to improve virtual server administration and speed disaster recovery.

Compellent Server Instant Replay: A Complete Boot from SAN Solution.  March 2007

Industry Analyst Taneja Group Profiles Compellent's Remote Replication Solution July 2006

By integrating snapshots and replication, Compellent eliminates the consistency problem prevalent in site-to-site disaster recovery scenarios and also reduces the complexity of bringing up a secondary site after a disaster. Compellent has hit a homerun in terms of architecting the system around simplifying the provisioning, management, and protection of data.

Managing Storage Systems: Focus on Compellent   August 2006

The results of an independent survey conducted by Tony Asaro, Senior Analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) show that Storage Center is fundamentally easier to use and manage than the leading storage when performing many of the most common and important tasks.

For additional information and Case Studies, please visit Compellent at: www.compellent.com