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Products | SANsymphony | Benefits
Are your storage resources going to waste?
Most organizations fall into two categories: those that view disks as server peripherals and those that consolidate in a large storage subsystem. Both suffer from very poor asset utilization but in different ways. Here are some tell tale signs of each.
Disks Dedicated to Servers
In this case, every major storage change, planned or unplanned, is accompanied by server downtime. Most disruptions are due to moving or adding disk space. Space is never in the right place, and the IT staff is going crazy trying to forecast capacity. As little as 40 percent of total capacity is actually being used.
Costly Consolidation
Here, most critical storage is centralized in large shared disk subsystems and operations are running smoothly. But how much of this premium space is tied up with less than critical data (test copies, backup copies, etc.)? Sixty to 70 percent is not unusual. You may be forced to add another array, while much of your existing investment is being used inefficiently.
Regardless what your storage environment looks like, poor asset utilization, is only exacerbated by contingency planning, because the same wasteful practices are merely duplicated. While you can't afford not to have a recovery plan, you also can't afford to overpay for one.
New ways to extend the storage budget
Before your IT organization loses more ground to the costs of storage, consider DataCore SANsymphony™ - the time-tested, open storage networking platform that dramatically improves the productivity of storage, servers and the people that manage them.
Double Disk Utilization
The most evident and immediate impact of SANsymphony is on disk utilization rates - they effectively double. To achieve this, SANsymphony's advanced storage virtualization capabilities enable your company to tap existing disk space that today goes to waste. Your team can easily allocate spare capacity where needed, as well as match the storage cost and performance to the application criticality. DataCore's network storage pooling consolidates control over all storage resources so that all available capacity can be doled out as needed across storage-hungry Windows®, UNIX®, Linux®, Netware® and Mac® OS servers. Instead of letting empty space languish behind servers, put it to good use and experience utilization rates upwards of 80 percent.
SANsymphony also makes it a simple matter to use economical storage devices side-by-side with high-end shared arrays and easily copy data across devices. Conserve the prime real estate on the premium arrays and get the most out of lower end disks.
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