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If information is money, storage
is the bank. As the volume of data
grows, so does the complexity and
therefore the cost of managing that
data, not the least the need to
ensure 24x7 continuous data availability
to those who need it. In the short
term, a data interruption can have
deleterious effects on a company's
bottom line. In the long term a
data outage can damage a company's
reputation and result in serious
financial losses.
Importantly, as more and more business
operations are recorded and stored
digitally, the thicket of laws and
regulations governing businesses
and data becomes denser, and the
consequences for failing to comply
with these regulations become more
severe.
The challenge
is to plan a storage infrastructure
that deals effectively with requirement
for continuous data access, data
security, and regulatory compliance,
scalability to accommodate growth,
controlling storage management
costs, and rapid adaptability
to change in business needs. To
address the increasing burdens
of data ownership, we need to
clearly analyze the business requirements,
the technologies available and
what suits them best
 Virtualization:
Networked storage systems create
the challenge of efficiently managing
a large number of disks that are
grouped together into a single
system. The question is how to
most efficiently manage storage
to maximize utilization and reduce
effective cost per GB? Improvements
in this area are being enabled
by disk-level virtualization that
allow large number of disks to
be managed as if they were one
(very large) disk, enabling storage
to be allocated as needed, without
having to specify which disk data
is actually on. Because provisioning
is more efficient, fewer disks
are required and less storage
needs to be purchased to meet
the needs of users.
iSCSI:
For SMEs, iSCSI offers an excellent
value proposition. For larger
enterprises that have already
implemented FC SANs in their data
centers, it can co-exist with
the FC SANs and complement them.
For example, a bank may choose
to run its core banking applications
on FC SAN and run all midsized
and smaller databases on iSCSI.
Almost all organizations will
see value in iSCSI SAN as it helps
achieve tremendous RoI. Implementation
of FC-SAN is costly, confining
it to data centers.
iSCSI attempts to solve many of
these problems. It leverages on
two standard protocols, SCSI and
IP, to create another standards-based
protocol. The iSCSI protocol has
been ratified by the IETF as a
standard and, therefore, it attempts
to eliminate all compatibility
issues.
NAS - Network Attached Storage:
Storage networking involves the
connection of specialized devices
designed to serve or back up large
amounts of data across local networks.
SAN-NAS
Consolidation:
A strong trend in the storage
market is that customers are moving
towards an environment where both
NAS and SAN co-exist. While one
would not want to replace a SAN
on which mission critical applications
like ERP, CRM run, one would like
to add NAS like flexibility to
the SAN. NAS gateways are an answer
to this need. Having either NAS
or SAN or both as an information
management infrastructure enables
companies to deploy their own
business continuity solution with
little effort, because networked
data can more easily be shared
across the enterprise, even between
remote sites used to replicate
and back up data.
Scale-out-storage:
Scaled-out storage systems represent
the next generational leap in
storage system technology. Scaled-out
storage system architecture breaks
the system boundary by incorporating
multiple storage systems into
a common pool of storage that
can be managed and accessed as
if it were a single system. Current
efforts in this area focus on
supporting large, compute-intensive
environments (eg digital animation,
computer aided engineering, analytics,
biotech, defense R&D, etc)
that would overwhelm the throughput
of any single machine. Here again,
virtualization technology helps
by enabling administrators to
manage separate storage systems
as if they were one large system.
Scalability:
Future preparedness is the key.
Today, storage needs are growing
at a fast rate owing to a number
of factors. This means that not
only should one deploy solutions
keeping in mind the needs of the
next two-three years, but also
a solution that is easily scalable.
And it must be optimized to meet
demands for capacity, new applications,
and service levels.
Flexibility: A storage solution
must offer ease of integration,
installation, configuration and
operation. Also, look for the
backup and restore speed of the
solution. See if the storage software
has a centralized cross platform
enterprise administration for
all platforms from a web-styled
interface? Does it have integrated
disaster recovery and bare metal
restore? A solution must have
industry-leading consolidation
capabilities, advanced software
functionality, availability and
data integrity to provide end-to-end
information protection.
We offer various storage solutions
for your company to protect data
regardless of any size of network:
iSCSI
NAS
Native Backup
Online Backup
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