Storage Tiering

Making sure your data is on cost and performance-appropriate storage resources is of the utmost importance these days. Delegating tiers of storage hardware based on application and user demands not only ensures your users are happy, but makes the most efficient use of your budget dollars. Why store archival-class data on expensive 15k rpm drives if it doesn't need to be there?

The software layer that facilitates this movement of data thru the tiers based on user-selected criteria (aka: HSM, ILM) is oftern the most important part of the equation and should be looked at very carefully to make sure it meets your unique needs.

Scale Datacom has extensive experience in storage tiering solutions and can work with you to make sure your data is residing on the most relevant hardware.

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Virtualization is THE hot IT topic these days. The increased performance, efficiency and cost savings from virtualizing your infrastructure are the main factors driving this evolution of the data center.

As server virtualization solutions like VMware explode in popularity, so does the need for a virtualized storage platform like EqualLogic's Peerstorage Series of iSCSI arrays. As a VMware and EqualLogic partner, Scale Datacom can work with you to build a solution that will bring your servers and storage into the virtualized world.

The once daunting (and costly) task of replicating data from multiple sites is being brought to the masses in cost-effective, easy-to-use solutions. Remotely replicating point-in-time snapshots across the network for offsite storage allows for multiple recovery points and protects data from corruption as well as physical destruction.

SnapShots make backup more efficient and greatly enhance your environment's uptime. They are image-based copies of application data, taken at a particular point in time while normal application operations and performance continue. They only take seconds to create, minimizing application disruption and deliver near instant restores since the data is in usable format and on disk.

As with most features in the storage world, many vendors offer "snapshots" but their implementations of the technology vary widely. Let us help you sift thru the marketing fluff to determine which implementation is right for your needs and budget.

iSCSI is fast becoming the SAN fabric of the future for most mid-level enterprises. Offering up great performance, universal compatibility and the proven stability of two rock-solid protocols (IP and SCSI), iSCSi allows you to utilize your current network infrastructure and keep costs down. And with 10-gigabit iSCSI in the not-so-distant future, this technology is quickly supplanting the costlier fibre channel.

Scale Datacom has iSCSI SAN solutions from industry leaders like EqualLogic and Infortrend that span the gamut of feature sets, price points and performance levels.

Corporate governance regulations are having a huge impact on storage operations today.

Making sure that your company's data is able to be classified, searched, archived, certified and destroyed in accordance with these regulations is a daunting task. Scale Datacom offers many solutions from industry leaders to help ensure you're company is within these new guidelines and your data is managed effectively.

The proliferation of Microsoft Exchange has caused a massive growth in data storage needs as well as a need to identify, classify and archive this increasingly important data. As mailbox counts and quotas increase, so does your need for reliable high-perfomance storage and features to manage it.

We offer some of the industry's highest-performing and feature-rich hardware and software for today's messaging environments. Let us help you get a grip on your messaging environment and turn it into a business asset instead of liability.

CDP (Contstant Data Protection) is getting a lot of attention lately and for good reason. It backs up your data whenever a change to that data is made. It also logs revisions of all transactions, saving you from having to pour over backup tapes to find the data you need to restore. This allows a massive time savings in restoring lost or corrupted data.

CDP is a natural fit for messaging environments like MS Exchnage where data is constantly changing and is also susceptible to viruses.

Scale Datacom offers CDP solutions from industry leaders TimeSpring, Symantec and SonicWall. SonicWall's are featured in our Online Store.

As the size of hard disks grow, prices fall and acceptable windows for backup shrink, more and more organizations are turning to disk-based backup (DBB) solutions. The speed advantage of disk over tape gives it a clear advantage on both the backup and retore ends while greatly reducing backup windows. Most DBB vendors, like ExaGrid, use byte-level data deduplication technology to store changes from backup to backup instead of storing full file copies, thus greatly reducing disk space requirements.

Tape is usually still used in most instances for off-siting and archival purposes.

Keeping your company's data safe and online when disasters hit has historically been a very complex and costly proposition. Tape backup and restores, which can be prone to errors, are being bolstered by remote replication, WAN optimization, CDP and consolidated storage hardware to ensure that disasters don't bring you to your knees. Let us show you the new breed of DR products that are not only easy to deploy, but have a fantastic ROI.