Selecting The Right SATA Storage Array For Business Critical Applications

As the volume of business information explodes, companies are struggling to find cost-effective solutions to store their valuable data. The combination of exponential data growth, tight storage budgets and the complexity of data management has, in the past, required companies to choose between expensive, enterprise-level solutions that offer redundant, and complex storage networks (with associated high management costs) and simple RAID storage solutions that provide lower hardware costs but offer no real paths for network growth or consolidated storage network management.

That is, until now. SATA storage solutions are maturing to the point where they can deliver enterprise-level functionality and management advantages at a cost-effective price. Combining SATA and Fibre Channel solutions, the triple punch of data growth, budgetary restrictions and data management complexity can be effectively managed if storage administrators employ two concepts in planning for growth.

Storage management software serves as the foundation for networked storage, enabling IT organizations to tie together all their storage resources, to monitor them and to control them. To maximize return on investment (ROI), it is important that the configuration, analysis, and control be provided by a central, easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) that can be securely and remotely accessed anywhere.