Several of the storage approaches widely deployed over the past two decades are ill-equipped to handle today’s storage challenges. For example, traditional storage area networks (SANs), built on mainframe-like architectures, cannot deliver the flexibility or cost-effective scalability required to handle changing business needs and rapid data growth. Similarly, many traditional network attached storage (NAS) solutions, promoted as “unified” storage approaches by vendors also lack sufficient management simplicity, flexibility, and scalability.
Achieving greater storage efficiency and agility
To achieve the agility and efficiency required in today’s data center environments, organisations need a new approach to storage. In conjunction with our technology partners, Envertica focus on helping improve automation, optimisation, scalability and data protection through Virtualised Storage.
Enhanced task automation
Automating storage administration tasks is essential for helping increase IT efficiency. Storage solutions that automate virtualised storage provisioning or offer automated, policy-based data migration among storage tiers help organisations increase storage performance, improve disk utilisation, and accelerate access to information.
Transparent Optimisation
To handle today’s massive data volumes while controlling costs, organisations need ways to store more data with less hardware and fewer spinning disk drives. At the same time, they must enhance storage alignment with application requirements. IT groups can improve infrastructure efficiencies with application-aware solutions that coordinate integration among applications, operating systems, hypervisors, and the storage layer. By optimising resources, IT groups can significantly reduce hardware acquisition costs while also decreasing power, cooling, real estate, and management expenses.
Seamless scalability
With the tidal wave of data unlikely to ebb any time soon, organisations need scalable solutions that let them buy what is needed now and grow seamlessly later, avoiding significant upgrades and excessive data migration projects. Storage solutions must take the guesswork out of planning and help preserve the existing investment in software. As with optimisation, achieving seamless scalability helps deliver savings for both capital and operating expenses.
Simple data protection
Because data is the lifeblood of business, organizations need ways to eliminate the business risks that can be caused by data storage problems. Any disruption of round-the clock operations can result in customer satisfaction issues and lost revenue. Storage solutions must incorporate data protection at the core, providing features—simply and cost-effectively—that allow the definition and delivery of the appropriate level of security, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
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