Managed Data Storage

The secure storage of your business data is critically important to your business. However, in-house storage solutions can be expensive and difficult to maintain. If your business depends on high-throughput activities such as data mining or heavy database activities, then you need the reliability and scalability of our managed storage solution.

Our managed storage solution provides 100% availability of your data accessible through either Fibre Channel or Network Attached Storage (NAS) connectivity options.  The actual data storage is available in either RAID 5 or RAID 10 configurations running on data storage devices with hot-swappable hard drives, redundant processors, redundant power supplies and parallel connectivity paths.

Fibre channel connectivity is available in either non-redundant, single path configurations or fully redundant, multi-path configurations.

Feature	NAS	SAN
Uses TCP/IP Networks: Ethernet Attached
Fibre Channel attached
RAID protected
Storage can be backup up NAS: Utilizes Advanced Backups without host interaction SAN: Utilizes host-based backups (Standard and Advanced Backups)
Fully redundant solution SAN: With the purchase of multipath fibre channel connectivity
Highly available using automated failover
Traffic uses special purpose fibre channel 4Gbps network
Traffic traverses private IP space and NOT the firewall
Available to be shared between Cloud and Dedicated servers
Uses NFS and CIFS file protocols
Identifies data by disk, block number and transfers raw disks blocks
Identifies data by file name and byte offsets
Transfers metadata (file's owner, permissions, creation date) SAN: Dependent upon file system and server configuration
File system managed by NAS head unit
File system managed by servers