"Reducing
the cost of deploying, managing and maintaining storage, while simultaneously
dealing with the 24/7/365 data explosion is perhaps the
biggest challenge facing IT professionals today!"
The explosion of the the information
technology infrastructure has been fueled by the Internet, e-commerce
and automation. IT costs and management overhead continue to increase
at a rapid pace. A significant portion, over 50%, of the enterprise
server infrastructure is dedicated to file serving. Reducing the
amount of data replication and data traffic, consolidating storage
and eliminating file servers would improve the overall network and
application performance in addition to reducing costs. It would
also remove bottlenecks – users would access the NAS directly
and eliminate the need to access a
file server or multiple file servers.
Express Stor is a multifunction
appliance that provides a consolidated management point for controlling
primary and secondary storage. It acts as a centralized NAS that
more efficiently accesses, shares and distributes information across
the enterprise and provides high-speed access to large data stores.
Users easily find data and share files amongst various operating
systems. With Express Stor, storage space is easily reallocated
and made available as needed – eliminates under utilization
or the "dead space" associated with distributed file server
storage. Such
advanced availability features as seamless enterprise integration,
ease of deployment and administration combine
to further lower the total cost of ownership.
