Storage Area Networks (SAN's)

Storage Area Networks (SAN's) offer many benefits over traditional storage devices:

• Online scalability - add storage elements as and when required
• High levels of availability - to both data and applications, even during back ups / restoration
• Simple and centralised management – reducing IT administrator time and the number of administrators required
• Faster data back up and restoration - businesses recover in minutes not hours
• High utilisation of disk capacity - multiple servers share storage space for maximum efficiency
• New levels of resilience for stored data, increasing availability for continuous access
• Supports storage on a scale that can't be achieved with Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
• High data transfer speed over a fibre channel infrastructure.

The cost of Storage Area Networks (SAN’s) continue to decrease dramatically and consequently, SAN’s are no longer just a storage solution for large companies with huge IT budgets. Storage Area Networks (SAN) are now a viable solution for most companies whose data storage requirements cannot be met by their current infrastructure. At basic, we take a highly consultative approach and work closely with our clients to assess their current IT infrastructure and future data storage and protection requirements, before proposing the optimum storage solution.