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Avaya Data Solutions Launches Virtualization StrategyArchitecture Simplifies Data Center, Campus Networking
THAILAND — Avaya, a global leader in enterprise communications systems, software and services, today launched a new Data Center virtualization architecture that can revolutionize the Data Center in 3 key areas:
1. Improved Data Center efficiency, reliability, and network uptime (Always On),
2. Reduced time to service (removes one layer of hardware complexity in the Data Center), and
3. Industry leading scalability and performance in a new Virtual Services Platform (VSP9000) with up to 27 Tbps throughput.
Avaya Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (Avaya VENA) utilizes a new enterprise-wide architecture designed to help CIO's and IT departments meet the surging demand for new content and business collaboration applications and scales to support emerging 40/100G technologies. Avaya's 8600, 8800 and VSP 9000 Ethernet switches will be upgraded with VENA features. Key VENA functionality differentiates Avaya’s Data Center strategy which focuses on scalability, efficiency, availability, and resilience.
Avaya VENA architecture allows organizations to more easily optimize business applications and service deployments in and between data centres and campuses. For IT Managers and CIO’s it can help reduce network failures caused by human error, by simplifying provisioning and policy configurations, reducing network re-designs, and providing new streamlined tools for network management.
"Yankee Group research shows that human error accounts for 37 percent of all network downtime — the single biggest factor in network disruption. Avaya's Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture helps reduces costs and improves time to service by providing a more efficient way to manage the connectivity between users and their content," said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president and distinguished research fellow, Yankee Group. "Avaya VENA provides an end-to-end connection from the desktop all the way through to the data center — a critical requirement to the success of virtual computing. The new architecture also reduces risks for CIO's by providing new, streamlined tools for network management, improves IT agility and simplifies the process of provisioning and policy configurations."
“This architecture is truly people centric,” said Ujjal Bajaj, Data Solutions Leader, Avaya Asia Pacific. “It simplifies network management and allows CIO’s and IT Managers to be more agile in responding to changing business requirements. Crucially VENA enables CIOs to say ‘yes’ to the increasing number of new application requests on the network — helping to ensure business agility and user satisfaction.”
The new architecture also helps reduce costs and can significantly improve time to service by more efficiently optimizing network connections between application servers and end users. It helps enterprises reap the benefits of virtualization in a more simplified and cost-effective manner through the use of network virtualization — Shortest Path Bridging (SPBm), Virtualised Route Forwarding (VRF) and by providing a consolidated management view of the network.
"Enterprises today are asking for more than just choice when looking at networking solutions. They clearly need solutions that will empower IT to quickly respond to changing business requirements, improve time to service, while simplifying their network and reducing costs," said Mark Fabbi, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner. "Enabling the agile enterprise requires a new way of approaching network architecture. It requires a new level of synergy between collaborative real-time applications, the virtualized data center environment and the underlying, enabling network."
"No one else can offer this level of simplicity around virtualization and collaboration," said Bajaj. "Avaya VENA redefines how businesses can communicate with a virtualised data centre. Key industry players have demonstrated their support of our approach with early interoperability tests. And by supporting active-active connections between data centers, Avaya VENA can ensure the level of resiliency that companies need in an environment where seconds of down time can equate to millions of dollars in lost revenues,” he said.
Avaya VENA is based on open industry standards, and Avaya is aggressively pursuing and building out a broader ecosystem of technology collaborators to support the architecture. Avaya VENA is implemented on new data centre modular and fixed platforms in addition to being a simple upgrade option for existing products. It also includes comprehensive tools for effective management of a virtualized environment. The new technologies leverage existing data network infrastructures and investments, and are scalable to provide a path for future growth.
Avaya has announced a series of relationships in support of Avaya VENA with companies including VMware, an industry leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure; QLogic, an industry leader in converged networking; Coraid, an industry innovator in converged Ethernet SAN storage; and Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data center WAN optimization - in addition to many other companies that have joined as members of Avaya’s DevConnect program, an initiative to develop, market and sell innovative third-party products that interoperate with Avaya technology.
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