Two internet technology companies, Southgate Technologies Limited and Cisco Systems have advised IT experts to automate their data collection processes.
The companies gave the advice during a seminar on 'Data center consolidation and automation' in Lagos.
Manager, Business Solutions for Southgate, Mr. Dafe Oroghi, who spoke on 'Consolidation and virtualisation', explained that consolidating data aids customers satisfaction.
He said: "Though customers may have some pains for consolidation such as too many networks and devices already; challenges of sharing and moving resources; management cost, need for more flexible architecture among others but these are things that have easy solutions with consolidated data.
"Especially if it is a consolidation with unified fabric which is a special type with a 109 interface that allows you to carry regular as if you are running on SAN or Local Area Network environment. Also, we need to move from the traditional disparate networking model to clouding."
Oroghi in a data gathering model stated that clouding has comparative advantages over traditional data gathering.
He noted that clouding allowed shared consumption, easy usage through self service, scale on demend, automated recovery in minutes among others.
He said: "Cloud is a data centre with automation. It has IT resources and services that are abstracted from the underlying infrastructure and provided on demand and at scale in an elastic environment.
"Users pay per usage and not incremental like that of traditional data processing. Cloud guarantees security, control service level management and compliance. It is trusted, reliable, flexible dynamic and efficient."
Cisco Systems Manager for Data Centre Business, West Africa, Mr. Tosin Amusa said it was necessary to engage right networking resources to get effective result.
He said: "Cisco intelligent automation and Nexus 1000V are advisable for result oriented clouding. They ensure right networking resources are assigned and eliminate IT rework to correct errors.
"Solution pack for cloud management on open stack create virtual data centre, controlled infrastructure and consistent manageability especially if they are Cisco packages."
Managing Director of Southgate, Mr. Folami Sarumi noted that public-private partnership was key for the growth of the IT sector.
"IT is one of the region that can reduce unemployement in Nigeria and to achieve this, there must be partnership for the current trend is IT," he said.
September 1, 2013 - 12:42pm | By Mu'Sodiq Adekunle
http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/southgate-cisco-recommend-automation-data-consolidation
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