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Storage Consolidation

Overview:
As your information assets grow in volume, your storage infrastructure has also grown in size. A sprawl of storage devices consumes valuable floor space in the data center, leading to inconsistent information management policies, consumption of too many resources, and an increasing business continuity challenge. Organizations are considering storage consolidation including a consolidation strategy that eliminates unnecessary hardware, software and applications successfully.

Computer World provides Storage Consolidation solutions and services. We provide a full range of consulting services for planning, designing and deploying storage and content networks to help ensure quick, efficient, and reliable management and access to your business data. Our solutions can help you implement scalable storage networks based on SAN and NAS technology as well as consolidate and migrate your data to increase operational efficiency and performance

Solution:
Dell | EMC and Dell's PowerVault lines of storage products offer a comprehensive portfolio of cost-effective hardware and software products to store, serve and protect customer data. The portfolio includes external storage, tape backup products, network attached storage, fibre channel arrays, storage area networks, and rack solutions. Dell | EMC and PowerVault storage solutions offer maximum availability, ease of management, high-level performance and interoperability. Dell storage products provide a broad offering of enterprise and cost-effective solutions to meet the needs of an organization of any size.

The potential ROI Advantages from Storage Consolidation:

	Increased Staff Productivity - Storage Administrators can manage more terabytes of storage in a consolidated environment.
	Optimized Availability - SANs provide high data availability for access to business-critical data.
	Improved Utilization and Scalability - Disk and Tape utilization can be increased through centralization.
	Improved Manageability - Administrators can gain control of the growth of their data and respond to changing business needs.

SAN and NAS solutions are complementary technologies that offer different significant storage performance benefits.

	Stroage Area Network (SAN):SAN architectures utilize a separate fibre channel network dedicated to storage. Consequently, SANs offer flexibility in distance and connectivity and are ideally suited for applications requiring dedicated storage such as database applications and online transaction processing.
	Network Attached Storage (NAS): NAS solutions are ideal for storage situations in which general clients need access to data. It is well suited for shared network directories and web serving.

Dell's Storage Line is a comprehensive portfolio of hardware, software and services designed to protect your vital information simply, cost-effectively and powerfully.

Storage Type	Product	Use	Enteronment
Networked Storage Improve manageability, use ability and costs by moving your storage out of your server.	Storage Area Network (SAN)	Intensive data processing and management of large quantities of storage.	300 GB or more with 1-100 servers
	Network Attached Storage (NAS)	File Sharing	160GB or more attached to an IP network or a SAN
Direct Attached Satisfy immediate storage needs for overloaded servers.	SCSI Disk Arrays	Simple storage attaches directly to your server or basic clustering.	Can attach up to two servers directly to the array.
	Fibre Disk	Buy the building blocks of a SAN as needed. Attach more servers as you grow.	Can attach up to two servers directly to the array.
Tape Simplify your backups and better protect your data by improving your tape drives.	Single Tape Drives	Simple data protection for small environments.	Provides data protection for one to two servers or client systems.
	Rack Enclosures	High capacity storage for rack optimized server environments.	Holds up to two tape drives or 160GB compressed data.
	Auto Loaders	Automated backups or large backup needs.	Automates the backup of up to 28TB of data.
	Backup Libraries	High performance, high capacity backup solution for large data environments.	Fully-automated library that can configure up to six tape drives.

For more information on Dell Dell | EMC and Dell's PowerVault lines of storage products servers and solutions, visit the Dell site