Servers
and Storage.
DVS Offer a full range of mid to
high end server and storage
solutions, using some of the most
reliable names in the industry, Sun
Microsystems, HP, Network appliance.
The demand for Storage shows no sign
of slowing down as companies and
organisations generate more and more
data. With storage capacity still
growing at around 65% per annum, the
typical organisation will have to
cope with a demand level that will
rise tenfold over the next decade.
And it is not just about capacity.
The sheer volume of data being
stored means finding a way of
ensuring that data is available to
users – whether it is on disk, tape
or optical media, whether it is
attached, network attached or
archived. companies and
organisations are feeling the
pressure to ensure that regulatory
authorities, and in some cases the
public, have access to large amounts
of that data.
A key driver for investments in
Storage Networking – and
particularly SAN’s – is the wider
need to consolidate servers and
increase the utilisation of server
and storage resources. The nature of
DAS is such that most organisations
have tended to buy disks on a
peak-demand, just-in-case basis.
Typical DAS installations often only
utilise 30% or less of their disk
capacity. By allowing servers to
share disks across a SAN,
utilisation rates can be pushed
above 80%.
Another key benefit of Storage
Networking is the ability to mix
different kinds of storage resources
across the network, and to allow
storage devices to communicate
directly with each other without
siphoning off server capacity that
would otherwise be used to drive
applications.
However, for the first time,
companies and organisations are now
placing less emphasis on their
ability to process data, and more
emphasis on their ability to store,
manage and retrieve information.
Certainly the ability to ensure the
integrity of and access to
information is now considered to be
a central tenet of any effective
business continuity strategy, and
business continuity, closely
followed by data availability, is
now at the top of many IT Managers
list of strategic priorities. One
must also be aware of recent issues
surrounding compliancy as a result
of various new acts that have been
introduced, such as Sarbanes-Oxley,
Basle II and the updated Data
Protection Act.
The prominence of these demand
drivers is significant, because they
do more than drive demand for simple
storage capacity; they also drive
demand for SAM (Storage Area
Management), SRM (Storage Resource
Management), Virtualisation, and the
emerging concept of ILM (Information
Lifecycle Management). These are the
technologies that, between them,
hold the real keys to ensuring that
the right data is available to
applications at the right time,
whilst at the same time ensuring
that data that is no longer
immediately important is safely and
economically archived.
To discuss your server and
storage strategy with one of our
specialists, please call us on
02920695020. or mail us at
sales@dvvscomputers.com
