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Solution Overview & Key Benefits

ZONE Storage Solution

The ZONE Storage Solutions are a set of flexible, integrated, pre-tested solutions created to meet customer's expectations of best of breed technologies tailored to meet leading edge challenges in the data centre.

Market Opportunity

Data storage is still a complex issue to many end-users, who look to their VARs to provide advice and exacting solutions.

Architecture

Appreciating the different architectures which can be deployed as part of a data storage solution is a key element to implementing a successful solution. This section gives an overview of the main architectures and provides insights into both usage and functionality.

The 'Flash' presentations and the associated dialogue offer a more dynamic overview that contrasts and compares the architectural alternatives available.

The three main areas that we look at are:

DAS (Direct Attached Storage)
NAS (Network Attached Storage)
SAN (Storage Area Network)

Solution Comprises

Solution Description Functionality Solution Comprises
Data Management A scalable storage solution for efficient data management

Scale
Migrate
Adapt

 CommVault / LSI / Isilon / HDS / OnStor / Intransa
Consolidation A solution to consolidate and deploy data storage capacity

Consolidate
Manage
Deploy

 CommVault / LSI / HDS / OnStor / Storwize / SANRAD / Riverbed /
Virtual Iron
Business Protection A solution to data protection through BC / DR activities or encryption and access controls

Protect
Maintain
Restore

 Asigra / CommVault / LSI / SpectraLogic / HDS / DISUK / SANRAD / Isilon / Virtual Iron
Optimisation A solution to enhance data throughput and improve your storage performance

Performance
Integrity
Transparency

 Riverbed / Alacritech / HDS / Storwize / SANRAD