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long-term
thinking. But that method doesn’t work any more than building
a house without a blueprint does. The reality? You don’t need
another point solution-you need a plan. That’s where we come
in. We help companies build their IT future around an enterprise,
or storage area network (SAN), architecture that allows storage
consolidation as well as the flexibility to easily grow in capacity
and throughput.
SANs
Alone is Not the Solution
The
true solution requires an infrastructure
that provides:
- Performance-horizontal
growth in size and speed
- High
Availability-non-complex risk management
- Flexibility-connectivity,
ability to shift resources and
simplify testing
- Reduced
Cost via Pooled Storage-savings of 30 to 50 percent
- Reduced
Complexity-centralized management and automated administration.
Such
an infrastructure can be developed only after a thorough plan-or
blueprint-is created.
A
properly planned infrastructure provides:
- Centralized,
shared disk and tape infrastructure
- Reduced
hardware and maintenance costs
- Reduced
administration costs
- Simplified
administration
- Achievable
(Possible? Attainable? Doable?), flexible data disaster recovery
and business continuance for your
entire enterprise.
Centralized,
shared storage blueprint offers
advantages such as:
- Providing
a 20 to 60 percent reduction in total storage need
- Allowing
you to match the proper technology to requirements
- Reducing
the cost of disaster recovery and the cost of business continuance
(system availability)
- Reducing
backup and recovery costs
- Reducing
the need for data duplication
- Simplifying
expansion.
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