The Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Connect solution interconnects distributed data centers to better leverage resource pools across the entire network and infrastructure. Service providers can maximize the value of their service networks by providing a platform for new services while increasing business agility, resiliency and efficiency across their network and data center infrastructure. The Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Connect solution improves mobility, making it easier to seamlessly move groups of virtual machines between data centers and solving the challenges of shifting workloads between facilities.

The Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Connect solution provides the network architecture and professional services necessary to deliver new, high-value data-center based services and to enable data center consolidation and transformation.

The Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Connect solution interconnects distributed data centers to better leverage resource pools across the entire network and infrastructure. The solution helps service providers to monetize their network and gain a competitive advantage by offering data-center hosted services.

Increase cost and operational efficiency

• Maximizes the value of service networks by providing a platform for new services while increasing business agility, resiliency and efficiency across the network and data center infrastructure
• Enables data center administrators to deploy multiple customers or departments on the same machine, significantly increasing data center efficiency and productivity and lowering capital expenditures/operating expenditures (CAPEX/OPEX)

With the Alcatel-Lucent Data Center Connect solution, service providers can get the most from their service networks and compute resources across all data centers, extending virtualization beyond a single data center. The solution helps service providers achieve business continuity, provides transparent workload mobility among geographically distributed data centers, and drives greater operational and cost efficiencies.

Increase mobility

• Makes it easier to seamlessly move groups of virtual machines between data centers
• Solves challenges that make it difficult to shift workloads between facilities

Improve scalability

• Allows service providers to easily configure, move, scale up or scale down resources across the data center fabric

Increase business resiliency

• Enables users to access applications even during site failures