Your data center is evolving

The Storage Area Network

The Storage Area Network (SAN) is a dedicated network that is seperate from the traditional LANs and WANs deployed in most companies.

Where LAN and WAN are typically used for interconnecting Clients and Servers, the SAN's exclusive role is to interconnect servers and their storage devices.

Typical of a SAN are the high-speed interconnection technologies (fibre and 2 or 4 Gbit data rates) combined with unprecedented scalability and availability options.

Storage Growth

Demand for storage from e-mail and database applications is growing at a phenomenal rate, and experts predict the future growth rate will follow an exponential curve rather than a linear one. 

Traditional server-attached and direct-attached storage architectures have capacity limitations as well as availability limitations (downtime because of reboots, RAID rebuild on bigger drives, not enough disk slots, ...).

Benefits of SAN storage

The SAN enables you to pool all storage capacity on dedicated storage hardware (giving you expansion capabilities in the Multi-Terabyte range).

Because capacity is consolidated and shared, the SAN eliminates pockets of stranded disk space, raising the efficiency of the storage infrastructure.

When more storage capacity is needed, a SAN allows resources to be added without impacting application servers, eliminating downtime from upgrades.

Our unique approach

Our team of Storage Consultants has a truly "Open Vision" on the storage market. 

As ex-solutioneers for 3 of the biggest Storage vendors in the industry, we have a sound understanding of each vendor's strong and weak points, as well as their key differentiators.

By partnering with some of the smaller storage vendors, we are also able to provide you with cost-effective SAN solutions, without the elusive price tags that have haunted SAN adopters for the last 10 years.

Certified

Through our "Brocade Certified Fabric Professional" and "Brocade Certified SAN Designer" certifications, we are able to partner with Brocade Communications as an official partner.