Storage requirements are growing exponentially, with growth rates
of between 60% and 100% a year. Relational databases, email, Enterprise
Resource Planning and eCommerce are all adding to the increased
demand for storage. This means that in 3 years time you may have
eight times the amount of data to store and manage, with the likelihood
of no increase in your headcount.
Increasingly sensitive to issues of confidentiality
and data protection, organisations must also ensure this information
is well protected, but when required, can be accessed quickly and
efficiently to process business transactions.
BSG Hosting Services provides organisations
with the managed, best of breed dedicated storage solutions that
they need to fulfil these requirements and free up valuable internal
resource. Combined with our business
continuity service and supported by our network and data centre
infrastructure
our storage solutions include:
Storage Area Networks (SAN) – Connected
via high speed optical fibre communication technology typically
to your LAN located within BSG’s data centre or remotely connected
via a WAN, your managed SAN is a specialised network that enables
fast, reliable access among servers and external or independent
storage resources. SAN are capable of supporting disk mirroring,
backup and restore, archival and retrieval of archived data, data
migration from one storage device to another, and the sharing of
data among different servers in a network.
NetWork-Attached Storage (NAS) – By
making use of a network interface card to transmit LAN and storage
communications, NAS is one way around the slowdowns and service
interruptions that occur in a conventional file server model. NAS
effectively moves storage out from behind the server and puts it
directly on to the transport network. This removes any delay posed
by slow file server hardware or operating systems. NAS devices are
also optimised to process storage I/O transactions much faster than
conventional parallel SCSI schemes.
For further information on managed and non-managed
on-site storage solutions, visit the main BSG web site: http://www.bsg.co.uk/services/infrastructure.htm
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