What is Storage & Server Consolidation?
Storage consolidation is the concept of centralizing and sharing storage resources among multiple servers. Storage consolidation architectures are designed to address the limitations with DAS storage and solve the growing data demands of business environments
Why Invest in a Storage & Server Consolidation Solution?
The primary reason for deploying a storage consolidation solution is to simplify and optimize the current storage infrastructure. Huge data growth over the years has meant many businesses have had to rapidly expand storage sub-systems to accommodate the new capacity, performance and availability requirements demanded by business units.
This has often meant a situation where there are many separate servers and storage infrastructures in place, resulting in difficult management, inefficiency, high costs and an inability to meet the demands of the business environment.
Storage consolidation is generally achieved through 3 specific architectural methods:
* Enterprise RAID storage consolidation
* Storage Area Network (SAN) storage consolidation
* Network-attached storage (NAS) storage consolidation
Consolidation Benefits :
Simplified Environment
The whole environment becomes easier to manage. Therefore staff costs are reduced and less staff are required to manager larger amounts of storage and IT resource.
Lower Annual Maintenance Costs
As the infrastructure is simplified allowing older, expensive to maintain equipment to be phased out or moved to a lower level support contract.
High Availability
Reducing the numbers of servers and associated storage allows data to be simply replicated, in real-time, to a remote location ensuring immediate system availability in the event of a major failure disaster.
Disaster Recovery
As the data is now stored on an enterprise-class storage device, normally difficult to manage, and expensive to purchase solutions such as snapshots of data become available. These can then be used to quickly and simply recover data.
Consolidate UNIX and Windows Storage
In the majority of Datacenters the UNIX and Windows data is kept separate. This leads to poor utilization rates and spending budget on disk for one platform where the other has plenty of free space.
Kadcomp Technologies server and storage consolidation solution will be tailored to meet your specific business requirements, designed to work with your existing infrastructure - and deliver the flexibility to leverage future technologies and meet future requirements.
