As data centres have grown many of our clients have found themselves managing islands of storage.
Data grows; more applications are needed, so servers are added. This becomes a problem to manage as the “islands” get bigger and more and more appear in the environment.
How do you back them all up? How to you monitor and managed a distributed environment? And what happens if there is a corruption or failure of the server? To combat these problems many enterprises are moving to a SAN environment.
Some of the benefits our clients are experiencing by moving to a SAN environment (either Fibre Channel or iSCSI) include:
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Zero backup window (backups can be performed anytime using snapshot technology) | |
Increased data protection (multiple RAID options and increased redundancy) |
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Improved recovery times (using snapshots for restores data can be retrieved in seconds rather than hours, or sometimes days) | |
Improved time to market (testing and development on “cloned” data reduces R&D time dramatically) | |
Reduced management overheads (single point of administration) |
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Reduced server spend (Boot from SAN means our clients are able to purchase diskless servers) |
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Skye Consult work with a range of Storage Vendors and can supply both iSCSI and Fibre Channel Solutions ensuring that we can offer our clients the technology and solutions needed to solve all data storage and capacity issues.
If you are interested in talking to one of our consultants regarding how your business could benefit from SAN technology, then please do not hesitate to contact the team on 01932 232345