KATHMANDU, NEPAL: How is virtualisation such an important buzzword today?

"Today virtualisation has grown to be the most cost effective way of consolidating. Virtualisation is also about increasing the service to customers. It allows us to provision applications faster," said Pallab Talukdar, director, enterprise business, Dell India.

* It allows business continuity and data recovery
* It brings agility and speed in your IT infrastructure

It has only been in the market for two years, but is expected to gain major traction in Indian markets in next two years.

"Virtualisation helps not only in optimising the data centre environment but also storage environment. The concept helps you to drive capacity on the server. We have seen energy effeciency grow by more than 80 percent. It can also help you solve your storage challenges," he added.

* One size does not fit all!
* Optimise virtual desktop. Low server virtualisation rates waste energy!
* iSCSI is important to virtual infrastructures. It is a very promising technology.
* SSDs a new concept coming in.

"You should now tier the data. Also, the tape is affordable and green today. It is 290 times more efficient. Do not write off tapes. You can also reduce duplicate documents with NAS. Rack/row cooling and containment increase predictability of deployment; greater space utilisation. There is a need for gettting operating costs down. It is time to grow IT smarter!", Talukdar said.