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End User Requirement |
iSN Benefit |
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Optimize existing infrastructure |
- Consolidate heterogeneous storage devices, heterogeneous storage management services, and network bandwidth
- Improve capacity and bandwidth utilization
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Enhance data protection, availability and accessibility
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- Advanced data protection schemes including a full suite of business continuity services, disaster recovery, backup and instant restore
- Fault tolerant, "bullet proof" technology
- Eliminates disruption from and allows for gradual introduction of new services and capacity deployment
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Simplify management
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- Policy-based automation
- Consolidation/centralization of a full range of storage management services
- Support for QoS and SLA
- Optimize human IT resources
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Reduce costs |
- Increase disk capacity utilization by pooling islands of resource
- Reduce capacity consumed by a range of storage management services
- Allows purchase of best of breed storage (no interoperability issues with existing capacity) on a just in time basis (benefiting from continued price declines)
- Adding capacity using modular arrays or adding disk trays to monolithic storage
- Enable tiered storage
- Strong, demonstrable economic benefit (ROI/TCO)
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Improve flexibility |
- Best-fit storage to application type and budget across SAN and NAS.
- Maximize choice and flexibility with respect to both existing investments (no change to existing infrastructure required) and new vendor selection (no technology lock-in)
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Satisfy multiple constituencies |
- Garners support from multiple, often competing constituents such as developers looking for capacity, CFOs looking to drive down cost, etc.
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