Storage
Many organizations have struggled with managing the explosion of data within their infrastructure. IT managers have been tasked with consolidating data, supporting performance requirements on aging infrastructures and develop highly available storage solutions. Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks have been a way for organizations to meet the service levels of tier 1 applications; however these infrastructures can prove to be complex to manage and often times are too costly to justify for lower tiered applications.
Adaptive takes an application centric approach focusing on the application performance and availability needs. By taking advantage of SAS and SATA disk drives technologies along with Ethernet connectivity, organizations can meet the storage needs of all applications within the enterprise. While Fiber Channel is still needed to support performance needs of some mission critical applications, cost savings can be realized by implementing iSCSI for less mission critical applications and Network Attached Storage (NAS) can be deployed to consolidate file servers, virtual machines and run small to medium sized databases.
Adaptive can help customers architect, design and implement these solutions to meet the performance and availability needs of today while making sure the infrastructure has the ability to scale to meet the needs of the future.
Storage Area Network (SAN)
Is an infrastructure specially designed to handle storage communications between the servers and external fiber attached storage. It provides faster and more reliable access than higher-level protocols used in NAS and iSCSI.
Internet SCSI (iSCSI)
Allows organizations to consolidate storage into data center storage arrays while providing hosts (such as database and web servers) with the illusion of locally-attached disks. Unlike Fiber Channel, which requires special-purpose cabling, iSCSI can be run over long distances using existing network infrastructure. By deploying iSCSI solutions various cost savings can be recognized in the area of connectivity
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
A NAS unit is a self-contained computer connected to a network, with the sole purpose of supplying file-based data storage services to other devices on the network. The operating system and other software on the NAS unit provide the functionality of data storage, file systems, and access to files, and the management of these functionalities. NAS units support Common Internet File Systems (CIFS) protocols for Windows and Network File System (NFS) protocol for Unix and Linux.