Simplifying and streamlining data storage through consolidation and sharing of resources
IT managers are constantly balancing the risk of running out of storage with tightening budgets. Yet, typically, huge amounts of storage capacity lie idle across under-utilised servers and disparate storage arrays around the business.
If you are considering Storage Virtualisation as part of your organisation’s IT strategy ask yourself some of the questions below and find out today how your business is set to benefit.
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| How much of the IT budget goes on feeding the demand for storage across the business? Do you know how much is really being spent, including power and cooling? |
Storage virtualisation will enable you to share and significantly improve your utilisation of storage resources. This will lead to less wastage and lower management overheads. |
| Have you paid for storage capacity that you are not using? Is it a problem to manage increasing demand for storage and ensure appropriate controls and data protection are in place? |
Storage virtualisation allocates storage as it is required, up to any maximum limit set for a user or application. Fewer devices are needed, delivering reduced spend, improved centralised management, faster deployment of storage, increased security and enhanced disaster recovery. |
| Are you planning to consolidate storage into more manageable pools? |
Storage virtualisation can be deployed on traditional servers or virtualised servers and, therefore, it can be implemented in conjunction with a wider virtualisation strategy, before or after. |
| Are you struggling to complete backups in time, especially at remote sites? What level of control do you have over business data? Are you confident that valuable information can be rapidly restored in the face of disaster? |
With fewer devices and less data, backups will be quicker and more frequent after virtualisation. |
| Do you understand how much you are spending on powering and cooling your storage infrastructure? |
Discs consume significant amounts of power to run and cool. Potential environmental and cost benefits are substantial. |
| Can you find data easily across multiple storage devices? Is data unnecessarily duplicated on different devices? Can data created in one department be readily accessed by other authorized users? |
A virtualised storage infrastructure will enable you to apply more sophisticated data management tools such as data de-duplication, classification and archiving. There will be less data – and it will be better managed. |
Virtualise IT with Celerity
Celerity’s team of experts are able to work with clients to help you decide on the best way to implement storage virtualisation across your enterprise and with our carefully selected products give you complete control over your storage environments.
Implementing storage virtualisation will impact other key areas of your infrastructure, in particular your network, servers, desktop, security and applications, all of which can be virtualised and optimised to achieve similar benefits.