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Secure your data with our scalable and highly reliable primary storage solutions
Are you currently utilizing cloud-based infrastructure solutions or considering their adoption in the future? The task at hand is to capitalize on the advantages of the cloud while upholding a superior level of resilience and control over central IT operations. This necessitates a primary storage solution that seamlessly integrates with a hybrid IT infrastructure and facilitates a cloud operating model (as-a-service). Additionally, managing workloads with structured or unstructured data, demanding high IOPS, poses challenges. Our primary storage solutions deliver robust and integrated data storage for business-critical applications, catering to both virtual and cloud environments, while supporting high-performance workloads across all data types.
Our Primary Storages offer robust and secure protection against data loss and ransomware, strengthened by advanced local and remote replication capabilities.
Unified storage offers a versatile solution that combines SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network Attached Storage) functionalities within a single system, providing support for multiple protocols.
Our unified operating system caters to on-premises storage needs while seamlessly integrating with multiple public cloud platforms.
Our solution ensures ease of deployment and user-friendliness, resulting in cost savings on operational expenses.
Experience the versatility and high-performance of our primary storage solutions designed for mission-critical applications and infrastructures
Our solutions are engineered to accommodate both structured and unstructured data, effectively supporting workloads with demanding high IOPS requirements. This makes them perfectly suited for managing business-critical databases, virtual environments, containerized environments, file shares, and storage in public cloud infrastructures.
Built upon dedicated products from reputable manufacturers, our primary storage solutions include solid-state arrays (SSAs) and hybrid storage arrays, with the added benefit of Software-Defined Storage (SDS) functionality. SDS can be deployed on-premises or in the public cloud, enhancing flexibility and seamless integration into existing infrastructures.
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FAQ Primary Storage
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A professional explanation of Primary Storage and its operational mechanisms?
Primary storage, also referred to as primary storage arrays or flash arrays, represents contemporary storage solutions built on flash memory technology, serving as the primary storage location for application data. Diverging from conventional storage arrays reliant on hard drives, flash-based primary storage arrays utilize fast, non-volatile solid-state drives (SSDs) to enable rapid and reliable data storage and retrieval.
Equipped with fast interfaces like SAS or NVMe, these arrays provide exceptional performance and energy efficiency, while also occupying a smaller physical footprint compared to hard disk-based storage arrays. The adoption of flash-based primary storage has significantly improved data access speeds and responsiveness for critical applications and workloads, enhancing overall system performance and user experience.
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What strategies can be implemented to optimize the performance and capacity of primary storage efficiently?
Modern primary storage arrays excel in delivering exceptional performance and efficiency, thanks to the utilization of cutting-edge technologies such as deduplication, compression, and caching. Achieving optimal performance and capacity necessitates a thorough analysis of workloads, followed by meticulous configuration of the array to ensure the best possible outcomes.
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What key considerations should be taken into account while selecting a flash array that aligns with my specific requirements?
When making a decision regarding the selection of a primary storage array, numerous factors should be carefully considered to meet the organization's specific requirements. These factors encompass performance, capacity, availability, reliability, scalability, data integrity, data protection, support for specific applications and workloads, and management and automation capabilities. Additionally, seamless integration into cloud infrastructures is crucial. It is imperative to also take into account vendor costs and support during the decision-making process. A comprehensive evaluation is essential to guarantee that the chosen primary storage array aligns with the organization's needs effectively.
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What are the distinguishing characteristics that set a primary storage array apart from a general-purpose or secondary storage array?
Primary storage arrays excel in real-time data access, providing superior performance and lower latency compared to general-purpose or secondary storage arrays. Secondary storage arrays, on the other hand, focus on long-term data storage. Primary storage arrays are commonly employed for databases, virtualization environments, and business-critical applications.
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What are the prevailing trends in primary storage arrays in the current market?
Current trends in primary storage arrays include the incorporation of support for multi-cloud environments, enhancing flexibility for organizations. Furthermore, there is a focus on improving data management and automation capabilities to efficiently handle the ever-growing volume of data. Additionally, ongoing efforts are directed towards developing new storage technologies like NVMe and Storage Class Memory (SCM) to push the boundaries of performance and capacity even further.