Data explosion - sound familiar? Everywhere we look data is growing at an exponential rate. VMWare, Oracle and Exchange are just several of the numerous drivers of storage growth causing people to reevaluate storage platforms.
As IT architects, SAN administrators and Storage experts approach the job of storage re-architecture, here are a couple of important points to think about:
1.)Cost - How much will it cost me to purchase, upgrade, implement and manage this storage system?
2.)Benefit - What will this storage system provide me that drives certain value to my business?
3.)Software - What software set is accessible and are the tools required? Examples can consist of space efficient snapshots, Exchange integration, active-active failover and virtualization?
4.)Software Licensing - How is the operating system and copy services software licensed? per array or per TB?
5.)Scalability - Can this program grow with our enterprise, and will it support different types of drives, such as SAS, solid state, fiber channel and SATA?
6.)Performance - How well can this method process existing and future workload, even under the pressure of multiple concurrent applications and databases?
7.)Management - Can this array give me certain metrics that enable me to avoid and quickly solve efficiency bottlenecks inside at the same time as outside the array?
8.)Availability - How could this array permit our organization to continue operations - both onsite and offsite?
9.)Connectivity - Will this array support the protocols and connectivity that I want and require? iSCSI, FC, 10GIGE, CIFS, NFS, NAS etc.
10.)Simple - Can I work on this program myself in a timely manner or will it take an army of $400 per hour contractors to resize LUNs, reconfigure RAID groups and complete proactive preparing?
Even with all the growth and complexity, storage is a fun place to be these days. An experienced data specialist assists IT experts like you architect storage systems and upgrades that drive enterprise value. Speak with one today.
As IT architects, SAN administrators and Storage experts approach the job of storage re-architecture, here are a couple of important points to think about:
1.)Cost - How much will it cost me to purchase, upgrade, implement and manage this storage system?
2.)Benefit - What will this storage system provide me that drives certain value to my business?
3.)Software - What software set is accessible and are the tools required? Examples can consist of space efficient snapshots, Exchange integration, active-active failover and virtualization?
4.)Software Licensing - How is the operating system and copy services software licensed? per array or per TB?
5.)Scalability - Can this program grow with our enterprise, and will it support different types of drives, such as SAS, solid state, fiber channel and SATA?
6.)Performance - How well can this method process existing and future workload, even under the pressure of multiple concurrent applications and databases?
7.)Management - Can this array give me certain metrics that enable me to avoid and quickly solve efficiency bottlenecks inside at the same time as outside the array?
8.)Availability - How could this array permit our organization to continue operations - both onsite and offsite?
9.)Connectivity - Will this array support the protocols and connectivity that I want and require? iSCSI, FC, 10GIGE, CIFS, NFS, NAS etc.
10.)Simple - Can I work on this program myself in a timely manner or will it take an army of $400 per hour contractors to resize LUNs, reconfigure RAID groups and complete proactive preparing?
Even with all the growth and complexity, storage is a fun place to be these days. An experienced data specialist assists IT experts like you architect storage systems and upgrades that drive enterprise value. Speak with one today.
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