Centralised Storage
Overview
Direct attached storage in rapidly expanding server estates is inflexible and increasingly complex and costly to manage. Typically, utilisation of storage devices will be below 30% and most of the data will reside on one class of disk, often from one vendor. In larger organisations, the proliferation of servers with direct attached storage may also be causing issues with power, space and cooling.
In addition, organisations that have already started the consolidation process in the storage environment are now facing diminishing benefits, increased complexity and rising costs. Often in the first wave of consolidation, organisations have individual SANs, implemented for specific applications with little sharing of resources and one-to-one relationships between LUN and application server. In effect, they have recreated a direct attached storage model with all its limitations.
The storage environment is also under increased pressure from the business to provide 24x7 access to data and reduce the time to effect change. This all has to be achieved with static or falling budgets and headcount.
Key Deliverables
Deliver storage availability up to 99.999%
Utilise tiered storage
Increase utilisation of existing storage
Controlling and reducing storage acquisition costs
Simplify storage management
Reduce time to effect change
Future proofing storage architectures
Remove vendor lock-in
Reduce power, space and cooling requirement
Build tiered storage connectivity to reduce cost for less critical servers
Provide non-disruptive, simple migration within and between storage devices
Provide high data availability by deploying replicated storage technologies
Use snapshot technologies for improved RTO & RPO
Synchronous, asynchronous and semi-synchronous data replication services to own or 3rd party remote locations
Vendor Alliances
