Networked Storage
The amount of business data stored is growing exponentially every year, with every sign of this trend increasing rather than diminishing. This is partly due to the proliferation of large data files, and partly due to legal requirements that require data to be kept for long periods of time.
This growth is driving corporations to install more and more storage into an environment that requires architectural changes to accommodate it. Simply bolting storage devices onto individual servers (Direct Attached Storage or DAS), creating many single points of device and data management, is no longer feasible.
Proactively Managed
Organizations need to implement a storage model that shares all storage devices with all servers via a common high-speed network that is proactively managed from a central location. The result is a highly available and scalable system that fully meets today's storage requirements.
Reasonable ROI
To address these issues, IT managers have moved to a shared storage infrastructure in which pools of storage are shared by many servers. Each server has enough allocated storage to meet its immediate requirements, and additional storage can be rapidly allocated to a server on a moment's notice.
The challenge with networked storage is to build an infrastructure that will meet your true data storage requirements as well as expectations for performance, availability, manageability, and scalability. All this must be achieved in a heterogeneous environment while also delivering a reasonable ROI.
OnX designs and deploys networked storage solutions for all Open Systems platforms, including Unix, Windows, Novell, and Linux.
OnX consultants:
- Work with you to assess your current storage assets and storage utilization.
- Recommend the networked storage solution that best meets your business requirements for application and data availability, while also offering the best financial and technical value.
- Seamlessly deploy the networked storage solution and migrate your data to the new solution.
- OnX emphasizes proper planning, testing, and customer training along with the principles of reliability, availability, and serviceability - critical factors for the successful deployment of robust networked storage infrastructures.