Business Agility
The needs of public and private sector enterprises can change rapidly for a variety of reasons including new business models, public policy, competitive pressure, and mergers and acquisitions. It is the job of IT organizations from the CIO to the helpdesk to architect and deliver IT services to allow the business to adapt to and even exploit change.
Operating system virtualization has ushered in the whole notion of highly adaptable IT infrastructure, permitting business applications to migrate reliably on-the-fly to run in virtualized environments that can provide the optimal performance at any given time for any given workload.
xkoto's GRIDSCALE middleware employs database virtualization to deliver similar benefits for the database infrastructure that applications are built on. GRIDSCALE centrally manages a pool of active/active databases so that enterprises gain business agility that allows them to meet challenges including:
Ever Changing Business Requirements
With GRIDSCALE, changing capacity requirements (e.g. due to unpredictable user demand during a national advertising campaign) can be easily accommodated because of GRIDSCALE's scale-out architecture. The number of databases managed by GRIDSCALE can increase or decrease dynamically to match demand.
Budget Constraints
GRIDSCALE can deliver data accurately, reliably, and quickly, using multiple lower-cost commodity systems that can outperform traditional expensive clustered systems. As a result, if application budgets are trimmed, GRIDSCALE can quickly provide alternatives that meet cost and service level criteria.
Competitive Pressure
As more and more enterprises implement a virtualization strategy, the pressure will mount for other firms to follow suit or be left behind. Using GRIDSCALE will bring continuous availability to data and the business applications that rely on data so that the business can be ready for potential disruptions that can take down a competitor's business e.g. due to electrical power disruptions, rotating brown-outs, planned and unplanned downtime, virus attacks, etc.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Following completion of an M&A transaction, newly merged IT organizations need to rationalize and consolidate their IT assets. GRIDSCALE allows for databases to be quickly provisioned and/or re-hosted. New databases can be easily managed by GRIDSCALE since it is transparent to applications and databases.