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Escalating requirements for service level agreements means an increased focus on uptime and the associated high availability of storage systems.
A White Paper written by Brad Nisbet, IDC |
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Historically, the notion of high availability was considered to be a characteristic of only sophisticated, high-end IT environments deployed in the largest organisations. High availability, which was once solely devoted to mainframe environments, first began to spill over into very large, open storage systems. |
These systems were designed to emulate the high performance and exceptional reliability of their mainframe cousins while creating opportunities for users to deploy applications on open operating systems such as UNIX, Windows, and Linux.
Today’s IT environments are entirely different. They are becoming more sophisticated and complex at every level. Larger organisations have expanded their datacentres to include multiple tiers of applications to accommodate a much broader set of internal and external customer requirements.
In doing so, administrators seek to expand the corresponding server and storage environments to align appropriately with these varying applications, resulting in multiple tiers of storage. For many applications, this means looking to a new class of smaller yet scalable, modular, and more nimble storage arrays that allow for this flexibility and ultimately reduced cost.
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| In summary the challenges facing IT Departments in organisations are: |
- The ever increasing demand from the business for more storage.
- The shortening window in which to backup the applications.
- The demand for quick data recovery process to restore applications in the event of a failure.
- The impact on a business if their major applications are not available.
- The necessity for IT department to forecast and budget for purchases.
- Ensuring that the current assets are being used to their full potential.
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New Entry-Level EMC Celerra NX4
Unified Storage System
Ideally suited for small to medium-sized businesses and remote offices looking to consolidate distributed file servers and storage onto a single platform.
Read the Press Release here
See NX4 Product Video here
See NX4 Chalk Talk Video here |
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Information Storage Environment Solutions for small to medium sized businesses from EMC
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EMC CLARiiON CX4
Entry-level networked storage for departmental applications or midsized organisations. Combining 99.999% availability with virtual provisioning, 64-bit operating system, and multi-core processors. Scaling from 5 to 120 TB capacity.
Overview | Datasheet download |
EMC Celerra NX4
A dedicated network server optimised for file and block access and delivers advanced functionality in an affordable, easy-to-deploy and manage package.
Datasheet | Unified Storage Overview |
EMC CLARiiON CX4 Series and VMWare
Flexible consolidation for dynamic vitualised infrastructures. CX4 offers integrated dual protocol, FC and iSCSI
Datasheet download |
EMC Disk Library 3D 1500
LAN backup to disk provides data deduplication and replication while reducing the amount of storage required for backup. Ideal for midsize organisations.
Overview | Datasheet download |
EMC Celerra Manager
A web-based software tool that enables intuitive management of EMC Celerra IP Storage (NAS and iSCSI) solution, and ensures high availability. Helps to configure, administer, and monitor Celerra networked storage from a single online interface more |
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Horizon Data Management is a Channel Development Provider who offers an Assessment Service to evaluate an organisation's data.
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| As Horizon Data Management do not sell directly to the end user; having completed the assessment they will identify the ideal expert reseller partner who will work directly with the customer to provide the appropriate solution more |
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