A New SAN: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

You understand sense of excitement right after you will be making an acquisition of something you’ve had your skills on for a while and it’s tragedy in this now it’s yours? Well, our collective faces are grinning within the afterglow of the buying a brand new SAN (storagearea network) from HP. In the world of Global Data Vault, this SAN is the ultimate new hardware present we can easily give ourselves.

Let’s review this exciting technology and discuss how facilitates delivering better, faster, and even more reliable services for you.

In geek speak, SAN’s are enterprise-class, dedicated networks offering entry to consolidated, block level data storage, and those are words that makes us happy. SAN’s are primarily used to make storage devices - like disk arrays - accessible to servers so that the devices appear as locally attached devices to your os. So aside from the colossal sophistication of what a SAN can do, it will allow Global Data Vault to take our level of service up a notch with added reliability, recovery speed, economies of scale and management features:

Reliability: It’s a dirty little secret among technology service providers, but things break regularly. Premier data backup and disaster recovery companies (like Global Data Vault) have a huge system of fail safes when ever hardware goes bad in order that replacements are put into production seamlessly with out the first is effected. A SAN encapsulates most of the issues that will go awry and fixes every one of them on it's own, and creates incrementally better reliability. We like that.

Recovery speed: SAN’s facilitate a bit more effective disaster recovery process. They may be better skilled at keeping multiple copies of customer data just because a SAN can span a distant location that houses another storage array. It enables storage replication through the disk array controllers, and that means after a disaster event, you are up and running faster than you might even think you’re ready for.

Economy of Scale: A SAN provides more economical growth, allowing us to possess a much less expensive scalability option, which then we transfer those efficiencies in our customers. And that will give you something to smile about.

Management features: A SAN storage network simplifies storage administration because it contains networking capabilities from it. Inside a lesser storage option, we would ought to logically separate the storage into different devices. The SAN manages to do it for us. Think of it in this way: A less sophisticated storage option would be just like having a parking zone loaded with a great deal of little buckets that we were pouring data into. A SAN allows us create highly virtualized storage pool that we can pour all the data into. The SAN is built to work out the separation logically plus much more effectively that people can ourselves.

We opt for a SAN by HP for a number of reasons. Technical excellence, appropriate investment and superior support are keys. And yes it may be a “chicken vs. egg” thing, but we understand that although most business leaders ask the question, “How should i succeed?” the founders of HP instilled an alternative question in to the culture: “How will we contribute?”. Global Data Vault shares this approach and appreciate all the good it brings when our suppliers share this view as well.

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