An Enterprise Storage is a Computer Data Storage designed for large-scale, high technology environments of modern enterprises.
Enterprise Storage are classified based on access technologies as Directly Attached Storage (DAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN), and Network Attached Storage (NAS). It eases Storage Volume management using various RAID Technologies (RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID10, RAID01). Storages are also available with Replication technologies and Snapshots to increase the availability of data for Critical Business Needs. Apart from high availability of Data Storage, Enterprises Storage are also available in the form of Tape Libraries to backup Data.
Modern Storage Systems are available as Standalone NAS or SAN Storages or with Unified features (Storage devices with both SAN and NAS functionalities). A variety of Storage Products/Technologies are offered by major Vendors like EMC, HP, NetApp, Dell, Oracle, HDS, Fujitsu, IBM in different segment of classes. It’s important to Business to get right metal to meet their needs without overspending on it.
Tiered storage is the assignment of different categories of data to different types of storage media in order to reduce total storage cost. Categories may be based on levels of protection needed, performance requirements, frequency of use, and other considerations. Since assigning data to particular media may be an ongoing and complex activity, some vendors provide software for automatically managing the process based on a company-defined policy.
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Tier 1 data (such as mission-critical, recently accessed, or top secret files) might be stored on expensive and high quality media. |
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Tier 2 data (such as financial, seldom-used, or classified files) might be stored on less expensive media in conventional storage area networks (SANs). |
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Tier 3 data might contain event-driven, rarely used, or unclassified files on recordable compact discs (CD-Rs) or tapes. |
With the Digital Data exploding over the years, it is critical for the businesses to choose right Enterprise Storage and Technologies thereby strategizing to counter the future storage challenges. It is also important for the Businesses to tier the storage data based on the priorities, and hence it’s more important to identify which tier data belongs to. A reliable storage design and Storage assessment is required to address these issues.
Distributed Business Solutions provides Storage requirement analysis and Storage analysis of existing environment using the best practice benchmarks, thereby helping our customers to reduce cost, potential data loss and performance issues. Our team of experts and certified pre-sales storage specialists understand your information requirements and deliver solutions that seamlessly integrate into your IT infrastructure.
