Insight revealed by Dan Kusnetzky, ZDNet blogger and founding partner of Kusnetzky group, ensures companies new to virtualization avoid mistakes commonly made when implementing any new IT solution
Minneapolis, MN March 9, 2009 — www.evolvingsol.com — Evolving Solutions, a leading server virtualization and storage consolidation solution provider, is offering critical insight to companies who have either just implemented or are planning to implement server virtualization. Absorbing this insight ensures companies are both aware of mistakes that could be made when employing server virtualization and how best to avoid them.
“Data Center Leaders: Server Virtualization Best Practices With Dan Kusnetzky” posts a recent discussion between Kusnetzky and Judie Van Keulen, Evolving Solutions’ head blogger. In the interview, Van Keulen seeks to paint server virtualization in an accurate light to companies who may tend to view it as an out-of-the-box cure-all for every IT related business woe.
“Server virtualization, deservedly so, is gaining mainstream awareness in the business community as a component of viable IT strategy, particularly as it relates to data center cost avoidance,” states Van Keulen. “With this awareness, however, come misconceptions about what server virtualization can or cannot provide. The purpose of my discussion with Kusnetzky was to ensure our readers have the most accurate view of this powerful IT solution.”
‘Data Center Leaders’ blog interview series shares insight from Microsoft’s Toby Velte, PhD, regarding the bottom-line benefits of green IT practices for businesses
Minneapolis, MN February 18, 2009 — www.evolvingsol.com — Evolving Solutions, a leading business continuity and data disaster recovery solution provider, is alerting businesses to the benefits of green IT and energy efficient data centers, by sharing insight from Microsoft’s Toby Velte, PhD, in its “Data Center Leaders” blog interview series.
“Data Center Leaders: Green IT Equals Data Center Cost Avoidance With Toby Velte, PhD” represents a recent conversation between Velte and Evolving Solutions’ head blogger Judie Van Keulen. In the interview, VanKeulen looks to Velte to help shatter stereotypes regarding the green movement by focusing on how the power and cost savings benefits of these practices directly contribute to a company’s bottom-line.
Velte, a Global Technology Strategist with Microsoft, is a passionate advocate for green IT practices, having co-authored the book “Green IT: Reduce Your Information System’s Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line.” To best position green IT against an almost inevitable backlash, Velte ensures any discussion on this topic focuses on a business’s bottom-line.
Insight shared from FOCUS Consulting President Barb Goldworm offers tips on how businesses can reduce IT costs, in part, with green strategies
Minneapolis, MN February 10, 2009 — Evolving Solutions (www.evolvingsol.com) leader in data center cost avoidance and disaster recovery announces its second interview in the “Data Center Leaders” interview series.
In the “Data Center Leaders: Data Center Cost Avoidance With Barb Goldworm,” posted this month, finds Evolving Solutions’ head blogger Judie Van Keulen sitting down with FOCUS President and Chief Analyst, Barb Goldworm.
Evolving Solutions’ goal in interviewing Goldworm was to understand what strategies could be used to include moving towards green IT and implementing server virtualization as potential avenues for data center cost avoidance.
Goldworm is the author of “Blade Servers and Virtualization: Transforming Enterprise Computing While Cutting Costs,” and has over 30 years in the data systems and storage arena. She is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been ranked as one of the top expert speakers at events such as Storage Networking World, Data Center Decisions and many others. She also chairs the virtualization tracks at Interop, and Blade Systems Insight, and is a frequent judge for virtualization solutions at industry events such as VMworld.
IBM XIV Able To Regenerate Data Loss Due To Disk Failure
Minneapolis, MN- December 9, 2008 — http://www.evolvingsol.com — Evolving Solutions, a leading server virtualization and storage consolidation provider, is one of ten Certified IBM Business Partners in the United States to offer IBM’s XIV, a self healing data storage consolidation solution. IBM’s XIV is able to repair and restore data loss due to disk failure within approximately thirty minutes, versus the hours or days needed by alternative solutions.
Evolving Solutions is offering IBM XIV immediately for client demonstrations in its Business Partner Innovation Center (BPIC).
“It is essential to have a system that can effectively store, consolidate and protect mission critical data,” stated Jaime Gmach, President of Evolving Solutions. “We have seen a need for IBM’s XIV Storage Consolidation System as high volumes of data are outpacing an IT department’s ability to store and manage the data by traditional means. By the introduction of the XIV, IBM is providing another option for businesses to store and protect their data.”
DeepSpar Data Recovery Systems, leading analyst in disaster r,ecovery estimates disk failure accounts for 38 percent of data loss incidents in businesses across the United States each year. Disk failure for these companies results in data loss that can derail large, costly projects.
Server and storage consolidation provider Evolving Solutions partners with IBM to share green IT technologies designed to lower the data center costs of any type of company
Minneapolis, MN May, 12, 2008 — http://www.evolvingsol.com — Evolving Solutions, a leading server virtualization and storage consolidation provider, is ensuring firms reach a new competitive advantage by sharing revolutionary new energy efficient and cost effective IT technologies this week at an exclusive breakfast briefing.
Evolving Solutions and IBM are excited would like announce that they will hosting “The Road To A Cost Efficient Data Center” this Thursday, May 15th at the Double Tree in Minneapolis.
This informative seminar will share new cost effective ways that businesses can effectively lower the costs of running their data centers while still achieving a competitive advantage.
Join Evolving Solutions as they also share how some early adopter have already experienced a cost savings of up to 40% by implementing green IT practices in their businesses.
The original press release can be found in the Evolving Solutions News Room.
Expert insights offered in article and gathered in exclusive survey, offer insights on data and storage consolidation that are resonating throughout the IT industry.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) November 8, 2007 — Evolving Solutions, a leading data backup and recovery and storage consolidation provider is sharing crisp new thoughts on data backup with the article and corresponding survey “Is Tape Dead?”
“Is Tape Dead?” , penned by Evolving Solutions Director of Professional Services Chris Taylor, delves into the current and evolving mind swell surrounding data backup and recovery. By shining a light on the very realistic pros and cons to both tape and disc storage techniques, Taylor helps solidify a creative and practical approach to data storage that includes both.
“One way to address both the need for faster restores and a solution for longer term storage and archiving of data is to utilize both tape and disk,” states Taylor in the article. “For example, critical backup data can be stored on disk for rapid restore, a copy of the critical data can be copied to tape, and less critical data can be staged to disk and then written directly to tape. Using this method, less critical data can be staged to tape over time while mission critical data is available for rapid restore.”
ReplicatorX will allow Evolving Solutions customers to achieve migration from any data storage device to any storage device, regardless of brand or physical distance
Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) August 8, 2007 — http://www.evolvingsol.com — Evolving Solutions, a leading storage consolidation and server virtualizaton provider, has announced its new offering of ReplicatorX data replication solutions in collaboration with partner NetApp.
“NetApp’s ReplicatorX solutions are revolutionary in the sense that our customers will now be able to share data between any brand of data storage devices, whether they reside in the same room, state, or even country,” states Chris Taylor, Evolving Solutions Director of Professional Services and Solution Sales.
Before ReplicatorX, data migration could be a financially daunting trial for firms of any size. Larger firms would face the challenge of sharing data between globally spread servers. Smaller firms, meanwhile, would face the hurdle of making costly upgrades to secondary storage devices to sync with the primary server.
ReplicatorX will minimize financial concerns of smaller firms by allowing data to easily synch between large, primary storage devices to smaller, less expensive devices, while simultaneously making the concerns of sharing data on a global scale a thing of the past for larger firms.
Minneapolis, MN, April 11, 2007 – http://www.evolvingsol.com – Evolving Solutions, a leading storage consolidation and server virtualization provider, is proud to have been named a finalist in the upcoming IBM Beacon Awards.
Evolving Solutions, who won the 2006 Beacon Award for the “Best IBM TotalStorage® On Demand Solution,” is this year competing in the “Best IBM System x™ Solution” category.
“It’s an honor to be named a finalist in the IBM Beacon Awards,” said Jaime Gmach, President & CEO of Evolving Solutions. “There is nothing more prestigious than being recognized by IBM, the true leader in this industry.”
Evolving Solutions was named a finalist based on its “High Performance SQL Database Environment Solution” that was designed for a technology services provider that serves the airline industry.
The “High Performance SQL Database Environment Solution” enabled Evolving Solutions’ customer to cut system configuration times, lower software costs and increase CPU response times.
One year into the engagement, Evolving Solutions has helped its customer level costs for its database layer while providing substantial scalability moving forward.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, March 22, 2007 - http://www.evolvingsol.com - Evolving Solutions, a leading data on demand and storage/server virtualization expert, is proud to announce that Mike Keeler, Senior Storage Consultant, is approved to teach the IBM authorized content material for the TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) class.
As an Authorized Independent Training Provider (AITP) for IBM Systems, Evolving Solutions is now offering IBM users, and prospective users, expanded opportunities to meet their technical IBM hardware training needs for technology solutions including:
• AIX 5L
• System p, LPAR and Virtualization
• TotalStorage Productivity Center
Evolving Solutions is now offering:
- Technical TotalStorage training from an instructor with extensive hands-on IBM System experience, and
- Authorized IBM courses taught at the Evolving Solutions Hamel, MN, state of the art, training facility
“Evolving Solutions is limiting attendance of the TotalStorage Productivity training courses to an intimate group of 7 in order to provide highly individualized IBM product instruction,” said Keeler.
Minneapolis, MN, December 14, 2006 – http://www.evolvingsol.com/ – Evolving Solutions, an IT storage architect providing data on demand, storage virtualization and disaster recovery solutions, is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
Evolving Solutions offers IT storage architecture services and solutions to help businesses optimize their storage environment for better efficiency and a greater total cost of ownership. As Evolving Solutions has grown in the last ten years, co-founders Jaime Gmach and Rebecca Olson have watched the IT storage industry also evolve.
“It’s amazing to reflect on how much we have achieved in the last 10 years,” said Jaime Gmach, President and CEO. “We have grown Evolving Solutions from a husband and wife duo into a $60 Million company with 49 employees. Not only has Evolving Solutions been consistently named one of the fastest growing companies in the Twin Cities, but we have also been recognized as a rapidly growing storage company on a national level.”
At their inception in 1996, Evolving Solutions had many requests for RS6000 hardware and peripherals. Evolving Solutions differentiated itself by providing technical support which today still remains one of its main differentiators. Over the past few years, the IT storage industry has started to focus more and more on storage and server virtualization technology and the related benefits, including greater total cost of ownership and a positive impact on a company’s bottom-line.
