Storage Consolidation
Are you still running your business-critical applications on server-internal or direct attached storage? Are some of your storage systems maxed out while others are barely used? Are your storage management costs growing faster than your budget? How about your environmental costs—electricity, cooling, even floor space? Are your backup windows exceeding the time allotted? Are you able to meet the availability and performance levels demanded by your users and applications? The formation of centralized storage pools that can be managed as a whole and shared across applications and servers improves storage utilization and efficiency. You can help your business reach new levels of productivity and performance by consolidating your storage – it reduces your number of footprints, helps reduce operating expenses, and increases your overall flexibility.
Storage Area Networks (SAN) Consolidation for Better Business
Our SAN solutions encompass storage systems, switches, servers, management software, multi-protocol support, services and other storage network components developed by Hitachi, our alliance partners, and third-party providers. Our SANs reduce total cost of ownership by minimizing downtime, improving performance, and optimizing server and storage configurations. We offer exceptional SAN Starter Solutions, including Plug and Play kits for Microsoft Simple SAN, for small and midsized businesses that provide a complete SAN implementation for you—from your server all the way to your storage, whether you’re implementing your first SAN or extending an existing one.
Included in the SAN solution are storage systems by Hitachi Data Systems,
such as the cost-effective
Hitachi TagmaStore Workgroup Modular Storage (WMS100) or the
Hitachi TagmaStore Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS 200) – which are logical choices for applications that require highly functional Fibre Channel, SATA Intermix, or all-SATA storage, and which lend themselves to modular workloads, including:
- Microsoft Exchange operations that seek optimized storage
- ERP and CRM systems with SMB-level workloads (as many as 200 concurrent users)
- File and Print server workloads
SAN Consolidation Benefits Include:
- Improved application Performance
- Improved application availability
- Improved backups and reduced backup windows
- Simplified storage and SAN management using Plug and Play kits for Microsoft
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