Data Center
Data center
In the rapidly changing digitized world, data centers can be built and scaled to handle the rapid demands of business and help organizations gain a competitive edge and increase stability and availability. By utilizing the latest data center technologies available, IT departments can quickly and easily scale to meet the ever-evolving demands of business and stakeholders. BNI has a proven track record of successful customer data center transformation and customer success use cases.
Virtualized infrastructure
Software Defined Data Center
Virtualized infrastructure through abstraction, resource pooling, and automation to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) is commonly referred to as a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). SDDC enables IT administrators to easily provision and manage physical infrastructure using software-defined templates and APIs to define and automate infrastructure configuration.
software-defined computing data center
Hyper converged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged, also referred to as a software-defined computing data center, is one of the most flexible and scalable technologies available. Compute nodes, storage arrays, storage fabric, and virtualization stack are all collapsed into a hyper-converged node or appliance to simplify the environment. The aggregation of these components in a redundant or N+1 (or more) system makes up the hyper-converged infrastructure. The controllers, fabric, and virtualization are all running as modules or virtual components in the hyper-converged nodes. Should a node fail and take down access to the computer and storage, the redundancy of the nodes is designed to allow the data center to sustain operations and availability.
multi-tier model
Traditional Data Center
The multi-tier model is also a common design model used in the enterprise today. This design consists primarily of web, application, and database server tiers running on various platforms including blade servers, rackmount servers, and mainframes and is based on three main layers of connectivity focus namely DC Core, DC Aggregation and DC Access.
The data center core layer provides a fabric for high-speed packet switching between multiple aggregation modules. This layer serves as the gateway to the campus core where other modules connect. The aggregation layer, with many access layer uplinks connected to it, has the primary responsibility of aggregating the thousands of sessions in- and out of the data center.
The access layer provides the physical level attachment to the server resources, and operates in Layer 2 or Layer 3 modes. The mode plays a critical role in meeting particular server requirements such as NIC teaming, clustering, and broadcast containment.
