Cloud-Integrated Storage Broadens Its
Appeal
While there is no denying
that cloud storage has delivered the promise of unlimited “pay-as-you-go”
storage capacity, simplified disaster recovery, and savings in costs and
maintenance, these attributes alone aren’t driving the growing business
adoption. Instead, it is the rise of cloud-integrated storage appliances, which
have augmented cloud storage to provide the levels of security, availability,
connectivity and performance found in traditional storage systems, that has
made cloud storage a viable choice for business.
With this week’s
announcement of TwinStrata CloudArray 4.0, the flexibility, availability and
performance of cloud-integrated storage has improved further, narrowing the functionality
gap between cloud-integrated storage and traditional data storage systems,
while leveraging all of the benefits of cloud. Some of the highlights include:
Choice of server
connectivity: With iSCSI and NAS connectivity options, the broadest range of
applications now seamlessly interoperate with cloud storage, regardless of
whether the requirement is file or block-based access
High-performance: New
appliances offering hybrid SSD configurations enable demanding applications to
use cloud storage without the expected performance tradeoff of cloud storage
“Future-proof” platform flexibility: New in-cloud platforms, in addition to
virtual and physical platforms, protect investment in cloud-integrated storage
that can continue to be leveraged even if your environment migrates from
physical to virtual or entirely into the cloud
Broadest choice of
providers: Over 20 different cloud providers to choose from means there is
never any worry of vendor lock and always the choice of best-of-breed cloud
storage Higher availability: Fully redundant appliances with no single point of
failure allow data to either be stored directly to cloud or local copies
replicated to the cloud, minimizing risk of downtime and offering a built-in
disaster strategy without offsite infrastructure
If you haven’t yet
considered augmenting your IT environment with cloud-integrated storage, now is
the time to examine all of the benefits cloud storage can offer. We’ll be
hosting a webinar next Wednesday to talk about our new enterprise-class
capabilities and how our customers are using cloud-integrated storage to
streamline their storage environments. If you’d like to join us, feel free to
register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/586633720
For further information
visit: http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2435998/print
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