This guide offers simple advice on how to implement networked storage solutions designed to give your business a competitive edge. The solution can be found in a highly flexible, intelligent, and easy-to-manage storage solution that can also be cost-effective: the SAN (Storage Area Network).
Digital information has become a critical component of business today. The amount of data stored in database files, spreadsheets, and other documents not only doubles in size every year, but many businesses require that it is available around the clock. Inability to access your information—even to perform a system backup—is no longer an option. Add a too stretched IT budget to these realities, and you're presented with a real challenge. How do you provide efficient storage access and management, of your data? This guide offers simple advice on how to implement networked storage solutions designed to give your business a competitive edge. The solution can be found in a highly flexible, intelligent, and easy-to-manage storage solution that can also be cost-effective: the SAN (Storage Area Network).
While SANs can be perceived as only suitable for companies with vast budgets and specialist IT knowledge, the reality is that they are a truly viable option for all sizes and types of businesses. If you need to store and manage data more efficiently, while simultaneously cutting operational and management costs, a SAN will help you do that as it:
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Creates a resilient infrastructure so you can add storage with ease to meet increasing or changing capacity and performance requirements
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Gain control over growth and demands driven by e-mail, compliance requirements, business applications, rich media infrastructure designed to grow easily and efficiently, without need to rip and replace legacy systems
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Make better use of disk array capacity by creating a central pool of storage (versus underutilized 'islands of storage') allowing potential increases of capacity use from 40 up to 80 percent while improves cost efficiency
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Manage your SAN from any administrative workstation for simplified management, while ensuring fast access to users' data and increased productivity
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Provides increased resiliency by providing snapshot point-in-time backups and data replication options
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