As organisations evolve to meet changing business needs they require an optimised storage infrastructure that is dynamic and flexible.
This is the view of Marc Dijkstra, storage and availability specialist at Symantec, which has expanded its storage management portfolio with the release of the Veritas range.
"Symantec is providing customers with the ability to effectively utilise the latest storage innovations from solid state discs (SSDs) to thin provisioned hardware and even virtual environments including Hyper-V, while also providing capabilities needed to optimise any storage or server platform," he adds.
According to Dijkstra, content-aware, dynamic storage tiering capabilities ensure organisations' storage deployments remain cost-effective, as they take advantage of new technologies that increase performance. This provides complete, coordinated server and storage visibility and policy-based, non-disruptive information movement.
“Storage optimisation is a key component of today's enterprise IT strategy,” says Bob Laliberte, analyst at research firm Enterprise Strategy Group. “Symantec's Storage Foundation and Veritas cluster server solutions are aimed at addressing this issue by enabling organisations to tier, reclaim, migrate and manage storage for a more cost-effective and highly available environment.”
Reduction benefits
Symantec says the accelerated adoption and optimisations provided by thin provisioning, tiered storage and solid state drives can increase the efficiency of storage utilisation.
It points out that companies can utilise power efficient storage and decommission obsolete and power demanding storage. This will effectively eliminate electricity consumption otherwise needed to power unused or underutilised storage, and further reduce the data centre's cooling and floor space.
"These reductions are readily attainable, and provide concrete, measurable benefit both from a cost and environmental impact reduction perspective," concludes Dijksta.
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