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What is your data storage strategy?

Due to organic data growth, leading to complex management, storage consolidation is now at the fore front of many IT Managers project plans.

Management	Maintaining a fragmented array of direct and network attached storage (DAS & NAS) devices is time consuming, inflexible and expensive.
Data Back Up	Evermore sophisticated systems and stringent compliance regulations have led to a storage explosion that is set to increase, as data will continue to grow as will the dependency for it.
Virtualisation	A number of emerging service delivery models including server virtualisation, clustering, SaaS (Software as a Service) and cloud computing are constrained by the limitations of devolved storage solutions.
Affordability	Over the last 3 years there has been an iSCSI SAN revolution that has slashed capital outlay, improved performance and the return on investment compared to Fibre Channel based solutions. As a result, many SME's and SMB's who would have baulked at the 5 or even 6 figure price tag of a Fibre channel SAN, are now deploying iSCSI SAN's for a fraction of the cost.

Centralising storage on a remote storage array delivers a number of key benefits including:

Streamlined storage management and simplified storage administration
Minimised downtime with faulty servers swapped out quickly, as replacement servers boot directly from the SAN itself
Improved resilience and disaster recovery, with remotely located secondary storage arrays mirroring data
I/O caching, 'snapshots', and volume cloning features, reducing data loss and downtime
Through our extensive storage project experience, we have become accredited senior channel partners for many of the best of breed technology providers including NetApp, Dell Equallogic, HP, Parallels, VMware and Microsoft.