Intelligent Managed SAN Storage is the Aim at BlueCentral!
In the last year, major SAN suppliers such as EMC, Dell and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) have begun to offer a much wider range of data storage options, at a wide variety of price points.
Options today include;
- Managed storage paid by the month or by the GB/month
- Storage on Demand - Cloud SAN growth options without pre-commitments
- Dedicated SAN storage - not shared with any other customer
- High availability SAN storage with dual fibre connect, cache and hosted RAID 5 or RAID 10 disk layouts
- Dedicated Customer Hosted LUNs
- Multi-site SAN storage options
- Remote site storage options including de-duplicated data storage
- Virtual Disaster Recovery via Storage options
- Hosted SATA SAN storage for archival purposes.
BlueCentral offers specialised, hosted, managed storage requirements on hosted HDS SAN arrays and hosted EMC SAN arrays in Sydney and Melbourne. Depending on your need for volume of space, caching and performance, we have a storage solution for you in terabytes or peta-bytes if needed.
Storage on Demand
Today, we have three major SANs installed, two from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and one from EMC, the latter being installed in mid 2010 and which is state of the art. For example, we offere storage on demand on this latter SAN, at four levels of quality and speed, depending on the speed and size of drives and network fabric. These include
- Solid State Drvies - five times as fast, supplied on request
- Fibre Channel connected drives - our most popular option with two varients
- Slower SATA drives for in-expensive SAN storage requirements such as archiving.
Managed Storage Area Network - SAN Storage
BlueCentral offers today, both managed dedicated SAN storage by the Gigabyte per month, or shared managed SAN storage.
Dedicated SAN or Managed Dedicated SAN
Whether you wish to have BlueCentral supply a dedicated SAN and manage it, or whether you would like to supplky a SAN and have it installed in your co-location rack, we will provide the purchase or installation or management of your SAN in any of these formats.
Good SAN Design - Hosted LUN, High SAN Cache
With increasing virtualisation, SAN design and configuration is critical. We provide hosted LUNs to a design which is available to our customers on request. Design of applications has advanced also, to best use the cache available on the better installations of EMC SANs for example.
Hosted SAN Replication
Depending on your RPO and RTO requirements for backup, we can now offer hosted SAN replication and tape-out services. Hosting SAN space in RAID 10, RAID-1 or Other . BlueCentral offers high performance SAN storage in a variety of high availability options including RAID 5, RAID 10 or RAID 1. Some are available on shared SAN storage and some on dedicated SAN.
Hosted Archiving on SATA SAN Arrays
BlueCentral offers standard performance SAN storage in addition for those who want to "write once, read rarely" at very cheap and competitive prices.
Managed SAN Storage is core to our Platform Services offerings.
For more information about intelligent SAN data management or managed storage services contact us on 1300 258 323 or complete the enquiry form to your right and one of our service consultants will contact you shortly.