Addressing Storage Challenges With Unified Storage Solutions Many organizations are consolidating data in an organized and highly accessible and secure manner to help increase productivity throughout the company. Storage efficiency is one of the key elements in the Data Center and with business data expanding at a faster pace, storage systems need to cost-efficient and adapted to ensure that the business information can be accessed, stored and managed with ease and simplicity. A perfect data center solution for increasing storage efficiency as well as improving business flexibility while also lowering the total cost of storage, unified storage is well suited for growing businesses that are adding servers and increasing their IT capabilities.
The word "unified" implies that a system supports multiple connectivity and access options. Ideally a unified system should be able to provide block access across all the available connectivity options while providing file access across NFS and SMB at the same time. Unified storage solutions are typically built to a scale-out architecture, delivering complete flexibility in scaling both capacity and performance. This means users will be able to add more controller horsepower and more storage system capacity to suit their needs. Unified storage wouldn’t really be unified at all if it still takes 10, 20, or 200 storage systems to deploy sufficient capacity and performance.
Advanced unified storage solutions eliminate the capacity utilization penalty associated with planning for block and file storage support separately so that users don't need to worry about overbuying to support one protocol and under-buying to support another. Users can allocate storage to support application requirements regardless of whether the application requires block or file data access. There are plenty of features for unified storage products that offer more than simple storage resources. This can include replication, snapshots, cloud integration, and more. Efficient solutions have fully integrated features such as mirroring, replication and data migration that is necessary to keep the business running.
With unified storage there is a tremendous financial benefit for the business in deferring capital expenses into the future. Based on an idea of the time value of money, deferred capital expenses cost less over time. The mounting capacity and storage horsepower will eventually mean you get more value for your storage dollar in the future. With the right scale-out architecture, that capacity can be added to the same single system.
Unified storage is a critical building block for taking IT to that next step by integrating storage into a cloud. Invest in a unified storage solution to effectively manage more data, more efficiently, improve performance, increase capacity, and cut costs.
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