SAN Solutions
Rorke Data's OpenSANs Help You Meet Your Biggest Information Management Challenges
Rorke Data's SAN solutions, for non-stop computing applications, are easier to manage, lower in cost, and higher in performance and capacity than other market solutions. Why? Because our SAN solutions use ENSA (Enterprise Network Storage Architecture) technology that provides the platform for OpenSAN solutions. Rorke Data's OpenSAN solutions also provide the freedom to select servers and storage from different vendors, allowing selection of best-of-breed technology uniquely-suited to your specific application. The result is always superior performance and often an overall cost reduction.
There Are No Boundaries
Our OpenSAN solutions enable users to manage data with unlimited capacity through storage virtualization and when required, can add virtually unlimited amounts of storage to the SAN without outgrowing the architecture. Additionally, interoperability of heterogeneous systems is enhanced by sophisticated Zoning technologies, providing operating system and user group isolation, simplified IT management, and increased security. Our customers freely and easily share a pool of storage resources across platforms, accessing the pool from any server across the expanse of the organization. These platforms include Windows 2000, UNIX (HP, IBM, SGI, and SUN), Linux, Novell and OpenVMS.
Technically, our SANs solutions make perfect sense for today's complex and competitive marketplace. The software tools allow the management and creation of volumes and RAID sets, allocation of resources, and monitoring of performance. Major products include complete fibre channel infrastructure of host bus adapters, hubs, switches, and RAID controllers; high performance and high capacity disk drives, tape libraries, SCSI and ATM routers, advanced backup and restore software, and a suite of centralized management tools. This mix of software and product components enables technologies like local and remote data replication, snapshots, cloning, and LAN free backups. Our SANs solutions feature faster, more secure data movement between systems and increased host connectivity due to fibre channel speeds. With our fibre channel networks we can address storage requirements of enterprise customers from the web or desktop to the data center, offering superior performance, flexibility, modularity, and scalability.
We can also help you increase scalability of storage for both servers and host systems, including faster access for I/O and storage-hungry applications, remote mirrors and copies of data for testing and disaster protection and finally, higher-performance backup and restore operations to support shrinking backup window.
Extensive Expertise
Our SAN solutions are maintained through a set of comprehensive services that ensure your mission-critical applications operate without interruption. Our systems are fully integrated and fully-tested solutions that:
- securely and reliably store and retrieve data
- employ software management systems and hardware that functionally and intelligently extend storage system capabilities
- assure appropriate services to install, start up and maintain software and hardware, ensuring a successful deployment and data accessibility
For on-going support, our dedicated service consultants, within our award-winning Services Department, are positioned to prepare a service package suitable for your availability requirements.
Planning For Now, And The Future
Let us show you how to create the SAN business plans and policies that will carry your organization into and through the next decade. We'll help you develop a staged SAN implementation strategy that will:
- Identify the SAN implementation that you need for today's demand, using fibre channel technology.
- Familiarize you with new technologies, as you refine and expand your SAN.
- Increase system productivity time by moving the backup onto the SAN. This relieves your LAN of storage data demands.
- Add disaster tolerance by adding WAN capabilities to your SAN or creating a remote SAN based on fibre channel.
- Expand your system, using new software tools that create the ultimate storage pool.
- Enrich data protection by combining data replication with tape backup.
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