Data Storage Solutions

If you're like most small business owners, you're drowning in data. Finding a high-capacity system that lets you store, manage and protect it all while still allowing spur-of-the-moment access should be among your top priorities. Fortunately, more efficient technologies are constantly being developed to assist you. And ISG can help you determine which solution makes the most sense for your business.

Two of the most popular solutions in the storage category right now are storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS) systems. Though they serve similar purposes, one may better suit your business requirements than the other. How do you decide which solution is best for your business? Let ISG help you evaluate your needs and determine the best solution for you.

Storage Area Networks. SANs solve some of the most difficult problems relating to traditional storage. By consolidating storage on a separate high-speed network, they free LAN bandwidth, enhance performance, reduce points of management, and increase efficiency and flexibility. Expanding capacity is easy administrators can add drives and subsystems as needed, often without taking the main system offline. SANs also simplify data backup and enable advanced backup techniques, including replication and mirroring.

SAN benefits:

• Adds extra security to your storage system
• Increases availability
• Boosts network and database performance
• Enhances disaster-recovery capabilities
• Decreases management and maintenance costs
• Provides application serving as well as data retrieval

• Increases productivity
• Saves server capacity for applications
• Lowers cost of ownership
• Reduces need for server upgrades
• Functions in heterogeneous network environments

• Direct Attached Storage (Disk RAID Subsystems, Optical Storage, Tape)
• Data Management (Continuous Computing, Disaster Recovery)
• Storage Software
• Data Replication
• Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
• E-mail Archival