With today’s highly virtualized environments, storage has become the backbone of most data centers.  Whereas in the past it was primarily the domain of databases, file and archiving, now it’s become the centerpiece of virtual machines with radical implications for performance.  More than ever IT admins are finding a sudden need to become storage experts.  Maximizing the performance of virtual machines has become a must have skill for any IT team.  Our experts can help.  We specialize in Nimbus, EqualLogic, EMC, and Netapp solutions.  We also have a strong history of building our own custom designed NAS arrays utilizing the most cutting edge SSD drives and RAID cards working in concert to deliver incredible performance for demanding, high traffic applications.

Moving Beyond Spindles

Is your company finally realizing that they need to move beyond spindles?  Spindle technology in harddrives has remained largely unchanged over the last decade.  We went from 15,000 RPM drives to, well 15,000 RPM drives.  New SSD arrays and hybrid drive arrays, that give you the benefit of traditional storage mixed with blazing fast silicon can help your company achieve breakthrough performance. Whether your Oracle databases need a big leap forward, your SAP performance is lagging, or your virtual machines are struggling desperately for resources, some of the newer storage vendors on the block can help you right now.  With arrays from Violin Memory and Nimbus or with custom built solutions, you can achieve unprecedented sustainability and low latency, accelerating your business critical applications as you virtualize and optimize your IT infrastructure.  These breakthrough devices are designed for extreme sustained performance with high reliability and serviceability.  They scale to tens of terabytes of capacity, millions of IOPs per second, gigabytes per second of bandwidth at low latency.  You’ll never want to see another spindle drive again.

Multiple Levels of Storage

It’s critical to understand that not all data is created equal.  Your architecture needs to reflect this fact.  Different tiers of data require different tiers of storage. With today’s data explosion it’s more essential than ever to examine exactly what types of data you are keeping, where it is stored, why and for how long.  This will help you understand how to build purpose driven solutions for archiving and accessing everything from the least used data to the most frequent.  As data explodes to bigger and bigger sizes, you need a team that can help you deal not just with the data but with the file systems, operating systems, disk subsystems and networking layers as well.

Backup / Archiving

Storage naturally dovetails with backups.  If you aren’t backing up your data, or you aren’t managing those backups then it’s only a matter of time before you suffer a data disaster.  The question used to be ‘How large is your backup window?’ Today that answer is zero. The question in today’s world is ‘How fast can I recover Data?’ Disk and Deduplication technologies power D2D2T solutions that let you keep much more data on much quicker media for faster recovery times, with tape still being a valuable part for longer-term retention policies and archiving.

Replication / DR

What happens when the unexpected happens? A strong DR strategy can help your company meet all regulatory and business requirements. From a detailed analysis of the business, through a detailed inventory of the assets both existing and required to meet business goals to a fully documented procedure of how to recover we can help you succeed when the unexpected occurs.