While the cost of raw storage continues to decline, the complexity of storage offerings and the costs of storage management are growing even faster. Storage availability, cost, management, disaster recovery, and security are major issues facing companies today. Storage consolidation through the use of Storage-Area Networks (SAN) and Network-Attached Storage (NAS) allows you to centralize your storage assets and separate them from servers and other storage appliances. Clarke Consulting can lead you through the consolidation process, which enables:
Higher data availability;
Lower cost of management through the use of the same tools to manage all of your storage;
Redundancy and failover;
Faster and less expensive disaster recovery;
Centralized security;
Information Lifecycle Management for tiered storage and faster backups;
Data storage compliance with regulations, company policy, and audit lockdowns;
Booting direct from shared storage using Fibre Channel or iSCSI;
Real-time replication of your data center to secondary site;
Integration with high-density blade servers and virtualization solutions.
