Storage-Virtualisation
Flexible, Scalable Data Storage
As businesses grow and storage requirements spiral upward, storage servers and arrays invariably proliferate throughout the organisation. The presence of such disparate storage resources eventually becomes difficult to manage, and this often leads to underutilised (even lost) storage. In fact, it's common to see storage utilisation at only about 50% resulting in wasted capital expenditures on new storage. Storage virtualisation has emerged as an answer to this dilemma, allowing storage administrators to identify, provision and manage disparate storage area networks (SANs) as a single aggregated resource.
This is an important element of storage consolidation, easing management headaches and allowing higher levels of storage utilisation, which in turn forestalls the expense of adding superfluous storage area networks.
What is Storage Virtualisation?
Storage Virtualisation is the pooling of physical storage from multiple storage area networks into what appears to be a single storage device that is managed from a central console. Storage virtualisation is commonly used across multiple storage area network (SAN) providors.
The management of storage devices can be tedious and time-consuming. Storage virtualisation helps the storage administrator perform the tasks of backup, archiving, and recovery more easily, and in less time, by disguising the actual complexity of the SAN.
SDT have extensive experience in providing scaleable Storage virtualisation solutions.