Storage Virtualisation (3)
Moving beyond traditional storage solutions
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, organizations need a new approach to storage. In
conjunction with our technology partners, Envertica focuses on helping improve
automation, optimization, 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 virtualized
storage provisioning or offer automated, policy-based data migration among
storage tiers help organizations increase storage performance, improve disk
utilization, and accelerate access to information.
Transparent Optimisation
To handle today’s massive data volumes while controlling
costs, organizations 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
optimizing 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,
organizations 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 optimization,
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.
Contact Envertica today to discuss your specific
requirements – We are here to help.
WHY VIRTUALISATION
Moving beyond traditional storage solutions
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, organizations 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 optimizing resources, IT groups can significantly reduce hardware acquisition costs while also decreasing power, cooling, real estate, and management expenses.
Seamless scalability
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, organisations 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.
Contact Envertica today to discuss your specific requirements – We are here to help.
Storage Virtualisation