The data upon which your organization relies, generates and receives is a moving target; some you must have available immediately and manage very carefully, some not so immediate. Ultimately, it’s this moving target that makes managing storage so challenging from all angles: compliance requirements, cost/save requirements and ease of accessibility and movement.
Traditional data centers that don’t employ any type of storage virtualization strategy are universally hindered by:
- Multiple vendor interfaces for different types of storage;
- Different storage devices that don’t talk to one another;
- Difficulty in switching storage vendors since data migration from one vendor to another is complex and time consuming; and
- Lower utilization rates due to independent and disparate storage devices.
Now is the time to take control. Virtualizing your storage allows for:
- Tiered storage – data can be moved from enterprise class to mid-tier storage as data changes without application downtime;
- Higher storage utilization since all storage is available to all servers
- Less complex administration utilizing SVC as the single interface into all of the different storage arrays;
- Copy and remote mirroring between different storage vendors devices; and
- Vendor independence.
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Please contact us at 770-771-5060, or at
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