SUN Storage Solutions

Storing and managing data in a cost and time effective way is becoming one of the most difficult duties of IS. Most storage currently resides in a Direct Attach Storage (DAS) model meaning that the data is physically attached to a single server's backplane. Common problems of this model are:

• Availability-if that server goes down, your users cannot access the data
• Severe underutilization of total disk resources. On average, the DAS customer is only using 40% of their disks while other servers are starving for more storage.
• Inability to scale management with the growth of data. Today, the average administrator can manage 1.2Tb but by 2004 the same admin is expected to manage 12Tb.
• Servers are purchased to increase performance and storage capacity. Today, storage represents 50% of the server price
  "Backing up multiple servers across the LAN affects users or exceeds your back-up window.

By consolidating your storage in a Storage Area Network you can avoid these problems. A SAN is designed to allow for the maximization of resources and minimizing of management while maintaining storage scalability and redundancy. It allows your administrators to manage large amounts of data more effectively which is important when you consider that the cost of managing storage is approximately 5-10 the cost of the hardware and software itself!

Let Abtech help you plan and deploy a consolidated storage environment with best in class hardware from StorageTek, LSI Logic, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard.