Networked
storage is about 55 to 60 percent less expensive
than the same size DAS environment based on a
2 TB system over a three-year period.
SAN customers
have reported an increase in storage utilization
from 30 to 50 percent for DAS to 80 to 90 percent
for SAN.
(Source: Perspectives & Industry Evolution
by Merrill Lynch & Co)
SAN customers,
on average, can reduce their number of tape drives
by 75 percent.
(Source: Forrester Research)
To satisfy the demands on the IT
organizations from customers for more storage and demands
from CFO's to reduce costs. To reduce the high maintenance
cost of proliferated storage, more fully utilize storage assets
and improve the quality of storage services that IT offers
to the enterprise.
IMPEX provides a turn-key SAN Storage Consolidation
solution including hardware, software and services package that
meets your company's storage needs while enabling future scale.
Solutions for direct attached, storage area network (SAN)
and network attached storage (NAS) environments.
- Fibre channel storage arrays provide highly available storage
for a variety of work-group, midrange and enterprise applications
- Fibre channel Switches to connect the servers to the storage
arrays
- Powerful storage management software
- Multi-platform access, snapshot copy and remote mirroring
capability with optional appliance
- Internal and external tape drives and tape autoloaders to
automate the backup process, and tape libraries to allow for
unattended backup and recovery
- Wide variety of media, capacities and speeds
- Backup software
The IMPEX storage solution creates a pool
of centralized storage resources that use network technologies
to provide data to servers and workstations as needed. The centralized
storage system becomes the setting in which managers can gain
economies of scale, provision storage capacity and performance
appropriately to servers, migrate data to offline media and
protect data with back-up, replication and archiving.
