STORAGE
We
have in-depth skills and experience in the design, development
and implementation of mid-to-high end data storage solutions.
We
are an accredited specialist for storage products provided by Hewlett-Packard’s
world-leading StorageWorks family. Our portfolio covers directly-attached
storage (DAS), network attached storage
(NAS) and storage area networks (SAN), and the latest virtualised
storage systems.
Our High Performance Computing Lab is equipped with latest generation
storage technology which is available for proof-of-concept demonstrations,
benchmarking, porting, testing and technical support for all these
technologies.
Our storage solutions offer the following
benefits:
- Almost
unlimited capacity – connect from a
few gigabytes to multiple terabytes to one or more servers,
with management through
a common interface.
- greater
flexibility – NAS and SAN
can be deployed in a variety of topologies which can be easily
modified and expanded
- reduced
downtime – full redundancy,
online capacity expansion, hot pluggable components and
clustering increases
availability
of server and application infrastructure
- increased
bandwidth – fibre
channel SAN provides high speed of up to 2gb/sec for
distances up to 10km or beyond
for large disaster
tolerant clusters and easily integrates with other communications
technologies for even greater distances. NAS can utilise
industry standard high performance networking for serving
data to workgroup
or farm systems.
- industry
standards multi-vendor support – storage
solutions can be easily used in other vendors’ server
environments
- centralised
back-up and restore – SAN
capability allows multiple servers to be backed up
to one or more tape libraries
providing hundreds
of terabytes of centralised capacity, without the
need for data to be carried over a general network.
