Addressing reliability, availability, and serviceability, Barb Goldworm explains in her recent presentation, “The Efficient Next Gen Datacenter,”  "not only do I need to be able to make my applications available but I also need to make sure that they scale, so that when I have on-demand requirements I have peak loads coming into play. I need to be able to continue to deliver on that application availability commitment and use the infrastructure that is scaled to do that."



The way to do that, she says, is "capacity management, making the most efficient use of my physical and virtual infrastructures, so that I can meet my current needs, my future needs, my average workload and my peak workload.  And that’s all about dynamic workloads and all of the changes that I need to address and deal with on demand, and my planned, unplanned migrations and outages. So we get into things like automated resource management. What we are seeing is a compound annual growth rate of somewhere along the lines of 60% with a 10 fold increase over the next five years. We are talking about 1.8 zetabytes by 2011, that’s 1800 extra bytes."



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