White Paper: Value-Centric Storage: An Enabling Platform For Doing More At A Lower Cost

By iQstor Networks

In today's fast moving competitive business environment, companies and their IT managers are faced with not only growing volumes of data but the harsh reality of ever-increasing budgetary pressures. The mantra of "doing more with less" has become a recurring, underlying theme in the lives of storage and IT professionals around the globe. Mounting financial pressures have resulted in reductions of manpower with the potential for increased risks to data management and data protection practices compromising business continuity.

To effectively manage these risks and to optimize the manageability, expense and performance of their IT infrastructure, organizations must now reassess the potential return on investment (ROI) of their storage systems and look for new ways to unlock the value of their storage investments.

Challenge: Efficient use of storage resources
Efficiency and ROI have become primary considerations – the efficient use of storage resources, consolidation of management, and the utilization of more cost effective storage media and networking protocols all contribute to a storage infrastructure that can help align expenditures with business needs while reducing operational costs. Expenses incurred from storage management or building disparate islands of technology with unnecessary redundancies within the organization could all be reduced by implementing intelligent, value-centric storage systems that offer improved consolidation of separate devices with integrated enterprise-level features at an affordable price.

The intrinsic "value" in a storage system is based upon delivery of ever-increasing levels of automation, reliability, performance, ease-of-use and return on investment. The value-centric storage system used integrated software in a tightly coupled configuration which takes advantage of the internal RAID controllers to provide data protection features demanded by IT managers at a price aligned with today's economic pressures.