Future of on premises Datacenter

How do we know if our physical infrastructure is getting obsolete? The Internet is still going strong, but it's clear that there’s no longer a need to invest money in massive data centers to handle traffic. Cloud computing, which has been increasing rapidly, is already changing how people live and work, and more businesses have begun to look at moving some of their workloads online. This means that the number of servers, servers, and hardware may be too big for a company to maintain and manage all by themselves. With so many options available to companies today, choosing between on premise and virtual cloud vs the public cloud can make the decision-making process an even bigger challenge.

While most experts believe that server consolidation is here to stay, many others believe that it should be curtailed due to two main reasons: costs and energy usage. If you're thinking about outsourcing your business, or whether you might want to relocate your business operations into a different region for improved efficiency, now's the time to weigh up the pros and cons. While it's best to wait until your current datacenter is completely redundant before making any major moves, you should also consider new alternatives like dedicated colocation facilities that give you the flexibility you need to grow. Here are three of the biggest concerns when deciding between on premise or cloud hosting.

1. Cost

One of the biggest worries among potential customers is that they'll be paying as much or sometimes more than traditional cloud storage is. For instance, data center providers such as Dell and HP typically charge around $1 per gigabyte. That's because these firms have built their own data center equipment to provide services as well as the necessary power and cooling. In the case of enterprise users, however, the cost disparity is far steeper. Most on demand datacenters and cloud vendors charge clients as little as $100 to store and manage their data. Even if they can get rid of their entire IT staff and replace them with cheaper off the shelf solutions (which are almost always far less effective), the total expense may exceed your initial budget. Once again, what’s important to keep in mind is the amount of resources needed to run your business and the long term viability of the investment. It could take thousands to tens of millions of dollars to build an entirely new facility from scratch. And remember, these datacenters are intended for commercial users – not home offices! You won't find anything similar to those found in other industries like healthcare, retail, or financial services. There is simply simply not enough room or room, in terms of both space and weight, to create a state-of-the-art facility that could satisfy the needs of every customer.

2. Energy Usage

A second factor for consideration is the amount of energy used in storing and managing your information and data. Traditional data centers produce large amounts of heat, which causes a lot of problems to operators and end users alike. A typical datacenter uses 50% less electricity to generate the same amount of capacity. However, when compared to on demand data centers, this energy consumption is not negligible. These facilities use nearly twice the amount of energy required to supply even the smallest apartment building. Not only is this unnecessary to operate a business, but it could also lead to environmental issues if improperly designed. All of your hard work and focus will probably pay out very quickly as a result of these errors. Consider the damage these buildings are causing to local air quality and water quality, which will inevitably affect food production and agriculture. Additionally, these facilities are notorious for creating noise pollution and carbon emissions. When it comes to the environment and the future of the planet, it comes down to two choices: either use more sustainable methods or continue to pollute nature. Ultimately, you'd prefer to choose the former, which would save you from excessive energy waste and pollution in the long run.

3. Disaster Recovery & Monitoring

Of course, disaster recovery is one of the benefits of using cloud computing as opposed to on premise, but you need to plan around it. Some types of disasters include natural disasters, hardware failures, cyber attacks and employee sabotage. Unfortunately, many disaster recovery teams cannot access cloud networks and rely solely on backup systems to protect against disruptions. Therefore, a disaster recovery team that relies solely on backups is doomed to fail. Having disaster recovery plans in place is one way to ensure your business doesn't incur hefty expenses once the incident occurs. Also, while a catastrophe or interruption in normal operations is inevitable, having the ability to recover from it faster and more easily will help you avoid a loss of revenue.

It's fair to say that all of these factors play a role in calculating cost-savings vs. reliability. But this isn't a guarantee that cloud hosting is inferior or right for every organization. There's no free lunch when it comes to purchasing cloud-based technology and services, but you may also discover that the on premise model offers better value. Many users choose hybrid environments because it allows users to scale and change as their businesses grow. By staying close to data centers and utilizing a combination of servers on premises and cloud computing services when feasible, these organizations can enjoy greater agility. They can move their infrastructure to locations that may be too costly, or risk losing control of it to competitors who can offer better performance in terms of processing speed, reliability and scalability. To determine whether you’re ready for the next generation of cloud, consider a wide range of factors to keep in mind before leaving your existing solution. Before committing to a new provider, read reviews and talk to the customer service reps to see if your expectations are being met. Ask yourself if the data center is secure, efficient and reliable. Is it easy to connect to online and mobile devices? Does it support multi-vendor software and applications? Can I expect fast response times and high availability? Do I need something customized for my specific requirements or am I satisfied with just standard services? Your answers to these questions should help you decide which type of data center will benefit you.

 

Future of Metaverse

For context, we currently have three major metaverses: Web 3.0; Decentraland; and Fortnite. If you don’t know what the last one is, it’s basically a virtual world where players battle in an online game and are paid to be there for that. The first two were revolutionary but they had flaws in their design. They couldn’t really offer player-obsessed experiences because all interactions (both inside and outside of games) had to occur through screens. As such, games that allowed people to socialize and play around with each other suffered from either poor user experience or having bad monetization mechanisms (i.e., no more ads).

What makes these three different? Well, while Web 3.0 can actually provide us with some unique features, like being able to buy land on a non-fungible token blockchain, these aren’t truly immersive. In addition to building your own space, the ability to use “real money” for purchases also creates issues for developers who want to make sure payments are safe and fair.

With the rise of mobile and AR/VR devices, this situation has begun to change. Now, even as new technologies like VR/AR continue to improve, there will always be problems associated with how players interact with those platforms. We’ll get into this more about that later. However, what I am going to talk about today is something rather interesting — the idea of using technology in a way that gives us the opportunity to do things better than ever before. This is something that was talked about in my previous article, which I wrote about a decade ago. A significant portion of the current development in tech is focused on creating environments and experiences that would allow users to go beyond the boundaries of whatever device or platform they happen to use. By making technology so ubiquitous, we could create a whole lot of fun for millions or billions of individuals. It just doesn’t seem like that’s possible right now. That’s why these are called the Metaverse.

The First Version of a Metaverse

If you thought that sentence above means we are just stuck with the same kind of digital worlds we’re familiar with right now, think again. There are already several versions of the future we should expect to see in the near future. One notable instance that comes immediately to mind is that of Roblox — a very popular video game that allows its users to build their own creations that they then sell for cash (this isn’t quite as good for gaming as the average person thinks it is, though). The problem with selling items in Roblox is the need for a constant stream of content, which means there will be another version of our reality soon enough that we won’t be able to keep up with that kind of thing anymore. Even if companies like Epic Games attempt to solve this issue by providing the most consistent supply of new items per hour of gameplay, it doesn’t help much when this happens every time you play Roblox, whether you’re playing alone or with friends. And when people play together, the amount of effort put into making sure everyone stays logged in at all times will increase exponentially.

Another example comes to mind right away. Imagine trying to look across a screen to find any information you require to complete work or study. Then imagine looking the wrong way across the entire surface of that display because of this error. When people are used to doing this in real life, they have developed a pretty advanced form of navigation, because all they need to be aware of is a single direction, or possibly their location based off of GPS and cellular signals. But with a large number of people using similar systems within a single place like Roblox, navigating towards a shared destination becomes a complicated task for both sides. With a system that relies on constantly updating information to ensure one thing doesn’t conflict with another, everything gets lost trying to navigate to somewhere else without correctly pinpointing direction.

These examples are not too far-fetched from reality. The point I really want to highlight here is that even if these types of scenarios are possible, we can’t assume that they’ll be popular experiences. People are used to interacting with other people in real life. Like me, they don’t consider themselves as having an active presence within any type of environment. Even in places like school, students and teachers interact with others very differently, but the fact is they are still there — sometimes it’s important that you know where someone else is going but most often you don’t care, because it feels like an unnecessary extra amount of effort. These sorts of interactions are hard to replicate in an ideal setting, let alone with a high degree of accuracy. Because it took ages to come to terms with the concept of a separate, distinct world within our physical environment, we tend to become comfortable with certain ways of being.

The Problem of Getting Involved with Other Worlds With Digital Surfaces

While the ideas of the present-day Metaverse are exciting and intriguing, people are starting to realize that those virtual spaces are simply too distracting to spend hours on. Instead, they prefer to read books, watch movies, or do a quick search while sitting comfortably at home. Unfortunately, there is no easy solution to getting people to engage with additional virtual realms. Not unless you invent them. Although reading and watching movies are certainly enjoyable activities, they aren’t exactly the primary reason people are interested in engaging with another place. Since we typically consume information that supports our beliefs through entertainment, there needs to be some kind of mechanism in place where people don’t feel obliged to get involved with anything involving another person that differs from their own.

That said, creators are already making efforts towards solving this problem. Take Second Life, for example. Back in 2010, Roblox released an app where players were able to purchase land and buildings in virtual scenes. Each item that was purchased came with a corresponding reward such as food, power, etc. Eventually, users created their own private regions that contained all the buildings and objects needed for survival. In order to acquire more pieces of property, players simply climbed them to gain access to different areas of the map. At some point, a story was added which explained the history behind each region. While this may sound extreme, it was actually fairly effective for many reasons. Users would start to develop respect for the properties and the owners of these islands, resulting in fewer instances where they found out their house is missing because it was built after a massive earthquake. No matter how you were feeling, it wasn’t long before people began showing interest in exploring newer areas and finding new homes. Additionally, users would meet other people and make friendships online. Overall, this kind of community-building environment didn’t exist anywhere else except maybe the actual internet.

The Current State of Things

The hope around the Metaverse remains huge. Many believe that if nothing changes, over 1 billion users will soon be spending their days inside virtual surroundings and eventually becoming fully immersed within one metaverse. With the progress that seems to be happening day by day, it is only fair to say that the possibilities regarding this Metaverse are endless. All of that begs the question — where does it end and when will it end. On the one hand, it’s nice to see all these projects working to get players involved with their offline lives and experiencing things that would be impossible otherwise. To think that the technology we’re developing will allow us to live perfectly normal life (if we haven’t been shown that already!). That said, things are moving faster than ever before. And as we know, fast tends to mean stupid.

Generate RMAN backup log file with date and time by using backup scripting

If you have setup the script to perform auto backup with media manager like Netbackup then you must need to setup the RMAN backup log file at the targeted oracle server to backup status.  To create a log file you need put RMAN_LOG_FILE parameter in the script. however to create log file name with date and time to avoid over writing you need to add below line before RMAN_LOG_FILE parameter. Here is  example.

NOW=$(date +"%d-%m-%Y-%T")

RMAN_LOG_FILE="/home/oracle/rmanscript/log/rman_nbu_daily-$NOW.log"