Storage

Introduction

Network and server downtime is costing billions of pounds in business and productivity losses each year. At the same time, the amount of information to be managed and stored is incresing dramatically, as is the amount of users demanding access to data anmd information at faster rates around the clock.

In fact, data hgas grown in value to the point where it has become one of the most valuable corporate assets . It si a competitive diffrentiator. Managing and protecting it ios paramount. Insuring it costs ia fortune. In this environment storage is the single most important IT resource for guaranteeing:

Data availability - always accessible, always on. Lost access can be damaging and sometimes fatal
Continuance - the ability to recover quickly from disasters and minimise downtime are vital.
Scalability - to increase storage capacity on the fly and helping to ensure 100% availability
BOM supply Networked Storage Architectures.

Direct Attached Storage (DAS)

BOM provide storage, backup and restore solutions which connect directly to servers such as hard disks and tape drives.

Disk Storage Solutions Storage ranges from single to banks of disk drives offering RAID (Redundant Array of Independant Disks) with hundreds of Gigabytes to Terabytes of capacity.

Tape Storage Solutions These range from small single automated tape drives to large cabinets containing several banks of tape drives deployed for back-up recovery and restore applications.

Networked Storage

BOM provide Networked Storage Solutions specifying and integrating technologies from the world's best of breed vendors.

Storage Area Network (SAN) In a SAN environment, the storage network is separate from the LAN and utilises Fibre Channel to interconnect various storage and control devices. The concept is to provide an infrastructure over which very large amounts of data can be transferred robustly between servers and storage devices thus allowing more users greater access to more data at much faster rates.

SANs allow organisations to consolidate storage for block-based and Database applications and delivers the following significant benefits:

High data availability and business continuity
Effective block level data transfer
Centralised management
Flexibility and scalability
Reliable, robust and secure

Network Attached Storage (NAS) NAS Solutions involves the connection of processing and storage devices directly to the network are are typically configured as file servers accessed through the high speed LAN.

NAS provides file intelligence and is an efficient way for an organisation to share information and simplify its server storage environment.

The benefits of NAS include:

Efficient file serving
File sharing accross multiple operating systems

Storage Management Software

BOM provide solutions that protect your critical data, simplify the management of backup and recovery tasks, and provide consistent, reliable system protection using Symantec Backup Exec and Double-Take technologies

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