Central data storage and management help organizations achieve compliance and
deliver business-critical data to end-users.  The amount of business-critical data
within most organizations continues to multiply in both volume and complexity.
Making sure that data is accessible to end-users when they need it requires a well
designed, well built data storage system that’s agile, easy to deploy and intuitive to
manage. 

A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a common solution for any organization that needs
high-volume data storage, backup, and archiving.  SANs combine the benefits of
shared storage with those of direct-attached storage (DAS) and offer significant
advantages over a DAS array for each server. Consolidating storage devices saves
money by allowing you to buy capacity based on your organization’s needs, as
opposed to having each server work with its own disk array, much of which may go
unused. And provisioning tools allow you to dynamically allocate space as your data
capacity needs grow.

Fibre Channel arrays have been the data transmission technology of choice for SANS
for years, especially for large enterprises. More recently, however, many small- to
mid-sized organizations are turning to iSCSI technology as an affordable SAN solution
that is scalable and reliable.

At integraONE, we help our clients understand and evaluate the features, benefits,
limitations, and costs of a Fibre Channel vs. a iSCSI SAN implementation.  We have
developed the expertise and partnerships with the leading SAN hardware and
software vendors to deliver the right solution for your specific data storage and data
availability requirements.

SAN Virtualization
Your data is one of your organization’s most valuable assets and that business-
critical data needs to be available to end-users when and where they need it. SANs
are common solution for any organization that needs to ensure business-critical data
availability and meet compliance standards through consolidated, centralized data
storage.

While implementing a SAN in a non-virtualized environment can increase storage
utilization from less than 25 percent to as much as 50 percent, implementing a SAN in
a virtualized environment can increase utilization to as high as 80 percent. By
pooling, sharing and centrally managing your SAN Storage, you can put virtualization
to work and produce better outcomes for your organization.

Many organizations have started to deploy server virtualization in their data centers.
But, they will not realize the full benefit of virtualization until they implement storage
virtualization as well. A virtual storage infrastructure extends the benefits of server
virtualization by simplifying management of data growth with virtual arrays and
consolidates distributed arrays into a single pool of capacity to increase utilization
and reduce storage management costs. An ancillary benefit of storage virtualization is
the opportunity to redeploy existing infrastructure as part of a disaster recovery
solution.

From smaller environments with a few servers to large shops with hundreds of
servers and applications, integraONE offers solutions to address the entire storage
lifecycle, including virtualization and consolidation solutions and technology refreshes.
We  have the experience and industry partnerships to design and deploy a SAN
virtualization platform that enables high scalability, top performance and high
availability of all SAN resources.