For several years, EMC and VMware have been working hand-in-hand to provide customers with solutions to drive costs out of the data center and provide the highest levels of performance and availability. Taking the next step to demonstrate their solutions for the virtual data center, EMC and VMware have teamed up with strategic Integrators to create Centers of Excellence across the United States, each featuring the latest server and data storage virtualization technologies. Integrated Data Storage, LLC™ is proud to be chosen as one of these Centers of Excellence, among the first in the Midwest.
Integrated Data Storage’s lab serves as a demo center showcasing the industry’s leading technology solutions and is staffed with IDS’s team of highly trained engineers, each of whom has extensive field experience implementing these integrated solutions. The combination of these best-of-breed solutions and IDS’s expertise in architecture and implementation create a unique opportunity for customers to see working implementations of the solutions they can use to increase their return on technology investments.
The Demo Center features a full lab of best-of-breed technologies:
- VMware Virtual Infrastructure with VMotion, DRS, and VM HA
- EMC Celerra Unified Storage platform with deduplication
- EMC Celerra Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)
- EMC Replication Manager for application integrated snaps and clones
- Ontrack Power Controls for Exchange single-message restore
- VMware backup with EMC Avamar for source-based deduplicated backups
- Disaster Recovery using EMC Celerra Replicator and VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware View
- EMC Storage Viewer plug-in to view your EMC Storage through vCenter
- Data Domain de-duplication backup-to-disk appliance
- CommVault Enterprise Backup Software with deduplication
- Symantec NetBackup Enterprise Backup Software with PureDisk deduplication option
- Symantec EnterpriseVault for archiving and compliance
For instance:
- How do NetBackup and Data Domain integrate?
- What would it look like backing up your VMware environment to disk or tape using backup software from EMC, Symantec, or Commvault?
- What specific integration points exist between EMC and VMware solutions to simplify management?
With all of these technologies at the ready, the demo center affords customers the option of bringing in their own data and testing potential software and hardware applications in a dry environment. Unlike specific manufacturers’ labs, IDS’s center allows IT professionals to investigate how products from different manufacturers interact with one another.
Customers in the process of evaluating solutions for their virtual data center are encouraged to visit IDS’s Chicago headquarters and, with the guidance of an IDS engineer, test-drive the technologies from EMC and VMware—along with those from other manufacturer partners—first hand in the lab.