Continually growing businesses have higher and higher requirements for IT departments; therefore, data centers need to be able to provide the capabilities required faster and faster. If new servers are continually bought, the purchase and operation costs will both increase, and they will also bring more expenditures for power supply and cooling. Under normal circumstances, only 5~10% of enterprises’ server workload is utilized; this results in wasting large amounts of hardware, space and electricity. Also, due to the compatibility issues of application programs, IT personnel can only run the applications on the different servers at different locations individually in order to isolate the application programs. However, this causes an increase in the number of servers. The purchasing of new servers is a long process, which makes it even more difficult for the IT department to respond to the rapid growth of the businesses and their ever-changing needs.

The infrastructures of enterprises nowadays are also growing rapidly because of the more and more complicated business requirements, and the hardware deployment models also further increased the complexity of the infrastructures; in addition, as applications also become more and more complicated, data centers are also becoming more and more difficult to manage, update and maintain. When we look at data centers as a whole, their technologies are also continually increasing, and their distributions are getting wider and wider; industries, laws and regulations are also continually requiring enterprises to strengthen their IT management and control. Using virtualization and cloud technology to design new generations of data centers and using them as the main forces to promote the development of businesses have become the thought of the new generation of IT infrastructure.

HwaCom has rich experience in establishing private clouds and hybrid clouds for large domestic enterprises and government bidding projects; it provides customers with tailored cloud ICT infrastructure designs through its in-depth cooperation with the leading brand in private cloud VMware, and the leading public cloud service provider Microsoft, and uses the strongest pre-sale/after-sale services to provide enterprises/government units with the most comprehensive consultative implementation services for every stage between Day0 ~ Day2 of the process of migrating to cloud.

 The Software Defined Data center solution of VMware is the leading platform in the industry used to build the infrastructure for cloud computing. It allows IT to satisfy the SLA for the most rigorous key business applications using the lowest TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). It provides a complete set of applications and infrastructure services for computing, storage, network, availability, security and automation to realize a complete, highly efficient and secure cloud computing platform.

▲ VMware Software Defined Data Center Components

 Enterprises can increase the efficiencies of server deployment, maintenance and operation significantly through the virtualization of servers or even data centers; enterprises can provide a virtual machine for a specific application within minutes. However, the deployment of any application is not on the virtual machine layer only; in practice, the application can only go online for operation with the configuration of a series of links including network, storage, security and management. Thanks to the development of software defined data center technology, now is the best time to re-examine the entire process carefully, to migrate the virtualization advantages of traditional servers to the other links in order to accelerate the deployment process of application systems; not only to realize flexibility and automation for the deployment of server resources, but also to extend these advantages to each link of data centers including storage, network, security, maintenance, operation and management. Software defined data centers provide preset security principles, disaster recovery plans and dynamically configured network strategies, etc. IT personnel can be released for large amounts of repeated tasks and instead focus on the innovation and development of businesses.

As a system integrator based on the management process and integration spirit of ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), HwaCom provides the Cloud Service Management Portal integration virtualization technology; through the industry’s most mature commercial cloud platform system, the VMware vCloud Foundation, hardware resources can be managed more comprehensively, and built-in application service level control is provided to establish a vastly simplified cloud computing infrastructure.

▲ Cloud Service Management Portal User Interface