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Virtual Compute Environment Q&A
What is 3Leaf's vision for virtualization?
- 3Leaf Systems' vision is to help migrate businesses from traditional data center operations to
fully virtualized environments. 3Leaf Systems' next-generation virtualization technology
delivers mainframe-class features to commodity servers while optimizing data center
resources and dramatically reducing costs.
What is the Virtual Compute Environment?
- The Virtual Compute Environment is a fully virtualized data center infrastructure that allocates
server resources on demand to support rapidly changing business needs. By virtualizing
CPU, memory, and I/O resources of standard X86 servers, 3Leaf Systems' Virtual Compute
Environment (VCE) delivers unparalleled flexibility and mainframe-class scalability and
availability to commodity servers while optimizing data center resources.
What are the major problems or pain points IT professionals are facing in the
management of their data center operations?
- According to IDC, building server capacity to peak application performance wastes $140
billion of unused server resources. Combating the ever-increasing costs and keeping up with
application demand requires ultimate flexibility in scaling up or down server resources, faster
deployment and provisioning, easy repurposing, and more efficient resource utilization.
IT management struggles to support increasingly demanding and fluctuating business needs
while at the same time keeping operational costs and capital expenditures in data center
infrastructure low. Currently a truly dynamic data center architecture does not exist, making
server capacity to scale on demand, repurposing server workloads and provisioning new
resources difficult and costly.
How does the Virtual Compute Environment address the problems data centers are
facing now and why is it different?
- 3Leaf's technology is unique in that it delivers a complete enterprise solution that fully
virtualizes the CPU, memory, and I/O resources of commodity servers within the data center.
This scalable, flexible, and dynamic data center infrastructure enables allocation of all server
resources on demand, moving them in a just-in-time fashion to and from the applications,
thereby maximizing resource usage and minimizing power consumption. This vastly simplifies
application resource management challenges and allows businesses to effectively respond to
spikes in utilization. As a result, data center infrastructure is more agile and flexible, and
operational and capital costs are dramatically reduced.
What are the major benefits of 3Leaf's virtualization solution?
- Mainframe-class flexibility, scalability and reliability with commodity servers
- Rapid deployment, provisioning, and repurposing
- Reduced capital and operating costs
- Flexible and efficient resource management
- Simplified management
- Fast, easy provisioning and repurposing
- Truly dynamic and Non-disruptive deployment
What is the ROI for virtualized data centers?
- Today's data centers are highly inefficient, with server resources typically running as low as
10-15 percent utilization consuming Power, Manpower, Space etc. Virtualization of compute,
memory, and I/O resources enables the creation of a pool of server resources that can be
allocated and de-allocated as needed both in static and dynamic environments, increasing
agility, scalability, and resource utilization while reducing both capital and operating
expenditures by over fifty percent. Virtualization of I/O resources alone reduces the number
of NICs and HBAs by up to 85 percent, the number of Ethernet and Fibre Channel switch
ports by up to 80 percent, and the number of cables by up to 70 percent.
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