Storage Solutions
Digital assets are growing at an exponential rate. Nearly every action taken on a modern network creates a temporary or permanent digital artifact. It is estimated
that in 2009 data grew by 800 EB (800 Exabytes, or 800 x 1018 bytes)[IDC/EMC].
Storage Need Drivers
- Applications
- Multimedia
- Voice
- Text
- Email
- Retention Requirements
Consolidating storage can increase reliability, availability, and reduce the amount of power, space, and cooling required per storage unit.
Net Fusion provides proven methodologies and best practices that accelerate return on a storage investment. Our storage team delivers efficient designs that are
tailored to your business, timely implementation services, and ongoing support via our managed services
practice.
Net Fusion provides proven methodologies and best practices that accelerate return on a storage investment.
Our storage practice has two primary areas of focus:
Choosing the Right Solution
Net Fusion provides design services to help you choose the right storage to match your business. First, we determine the overarching goals to be accomplished. Next,
we determine how storage fits into your overall infrastructure strategy. We then work with your business to assess your storage growth needs. Lastly, we utilize
our deep knowledge of multiple hardware vendors such as EMC, HP, Sun, and Dell to recommend the right solution.
When the time comes to implement, Net Fusion is there to ensure a smooth deployment with the correct configuration the first time, every time and minimal disruption
of service.
Crafting a storage solution is an increasingly complex task. Cost, scalability, and reliability are all extremely important factors. We utilize our deep knowledge
of multiple hardware vendors such as EMC, HP, Sun, and Dell to recommend the right solution.
There are several important questions that must be asked when implementing or upgrading storage.
What kind of storage does the situation require? For example, direct attached storage is often less expensive than a storage area network, but the scalability differences
are dramatic.
Will this storage be used to store virtual machines for
virtualized
desktops and/or
virtualized servers?
Does my business need advanced capabilities such as snapshot replication and real-time data deduplication?
What performance metrics have been defined? Does the solution require upgrading the underlying network? Does the solution require a fiber channel switch?
Have Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) been defined? Does the situation require multiple devices for redundancy? What is my
disaster recovery plan?
Should I segregate data into different groups so that better hardware can be assigned to more heavily utilized assets?
Storage is a necessary but costly investment. The choice of the correct service provider is just as important as the choice of the right hardware.