As business continues to rely more and more on technology, data storage needs inflate exponentially as the success of a corporation increases. Being able to effectively manage data is critical. Proper storage management is essential not only to ease business transactions, but to prevent the loss of vital information in the case of system failures, accidental or malicious deletion or modification of data, corruption by malware, natural disasters, and theft. As a Professional Partner of VMWare and a partner of NetApp, PROMENET offers superior storage solutions to provide a failsafe system for these expanding needs. PROMENET’s team of skilled Storage Architects will assess your storage demands by gauging the physical and logical metrics of your data networks and construct a meticulously-plotted blueprint of the prime storage solution to meet the criteria of your corporation.
For those with smaller storage needs, PROMENET offers Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) solutions through SCSI interfaces of RAID to allow for fast access to data at a lesser cost. PROMENET’s Network-Attached Storage solutions, more flexible and scalable storage than DAS, are also available, specifically designed for handling file service and easily accessed on the local area network.
For those who desire a premium storage solution, PROMENET Storage Architects and Engineers are amply trained and experienced in cutting-edge Storage Area Network (SAN) technology and will provide a storage virtualization solution that yields high performance and data availability. PROMENET’s Storage Virtualization Solution allows multiple operating systems to run on one appliance, removing the need for task-specific servers and consolidating server farms. The result is a more secure network with greater operative functioning. Hybrids of the three solutions may also be constructed to meet the needs of corporations with unique storage requirements.
No matter what the specific needs may be, PROMENET will provide the best-fitting solution, taking into account availability, capacity, and performance and implement the perfect solution for you, designed to lower TCO, simplify data management, and increase availability, security, and scalability of your data. As a result, your organization will be able to create secure, integrated applications quickly with minimal disruption to existing requirements and minimize the potential for data loss.
Once the appropriate solution is chosen, PROMENET engineers will install and configure the necessary hardware and software, test the data migration in a pilot environment, see the actual migration through the easiest route possible, and train storage administration and management in the usage of new appliances. PROMENET continues to extend premium services after installation and configuration by offering support plans, including 24x7 support, to ensure technical performance.
Using advanced Storage Area Network (SAN) technology, PROMENET’s highly-skilled Storage Architects will design a centralized storage system, customized to ensure prime availability of your data and suit your specific storage demands for a faster, more productive technological backbone. PROMENET’s Storage Virtualization Solution enables multiple operating systems to function on a single appliance, thus removing the need for several servers and drastically increasing storage capacity. With multiple storage subsystems, PROMENET’s Storage Area Network Solution enables a high level of functionality, efficiency, and security. Of the multiple storage solutions, a Storage Area Network provides the best scalability of data, allowing ample space for future expansion of your corporation’s storage demand. A Storage Area Network can provide your corporation with tools that offer superb reliability and availability like storage on demand, dynamic storage allocation, online backup services, archiving and recovery, and offline snapshots. PROMENET’s Storage Virtualization Solutions will enable your business to:
- Adapt quickly and dynamically to variable environments
- Allow for high availability of data
- Consolidate server farms
- Optimize performance and redundancy with less hardware
- Provide autonomous server and application failover across the LAN and WAN
- Create a zero downtime environment for server maintenance
Employing a PROMENET virtualization solution will greatly augment your storage utilization and enhance backup and recovery time, allowing your business to operate at a fast pace. Remote data mirroring for redundancy and zero downtime for scheduled maintenance means that your customers will never be kept waiting. As a result of centralization, a PROMENET Storage Area Network is able to reduce administrative costs and provide a greater return on capital invested as well. Virtualization has been proven to be significantly effective in cutting thousands of dollars from TCO.
After PROMENET’s detail-oriented Storage Architects design your Storage Virtualization Solution, our expert engineers will build your Storage Area Network and show you how to use your advanced new storage system so that you may effectively carry out data protection, process backout, and data recovery operations.
PROMENET engineers will continue to be a resource made available to you, offering technical support packages for your Storage Area Network after the initial implementation.
By working with PROMENET to combine the power of the world’s leading storage and virtualization solutions, your business will be provided with the tools to excel in the information age. NetApp’s high-speed FlexClone® and SnapShot™ storage technologies perfectly complement VMWare’s virtualization solution. With high performance technology and an easy-to-manage user interface, the integration of NetApp and VMWare will keep your most valuable applications, documents, and information secure from natural disasters, technical failure, and human error without consuming vast quantities of energy or time. The benefits include:
- Increased overall productivity
- Flexibility
- Streamline storage allocation to virtual machines
- Improved operational efficiency
- Efficient and instantaneous cloning of VMs
- V-Series virtualization solution
- Thin provisioning
- Instantaneous backups
- Raid-DP
- Disaster recovery
- Reduced TCO
PROMENET is a NetApp partner and VMWare Professional Partner, meaning that your Storage Virtualization Solution is in expert hands. Everything from the initial evaluation to the installation will be executed in accordance with not only PROMENET’s personal standard of excellence, but within the high standard expectations of these two major industry leaders as well.
NetApp is a global leader in unified storage solutions geared toward simplifying and enhancing data management. It is the fastest file system in the world with RAID enabled disaster recovery. Unlike other solutions that utilize different models and devices that do not communication with one another, NetApp’s storage solutions share a unified, centralized architecture where components “talk” with one another, enabling data to be transferred via fiber channel cable at rates of up to 4GB per second. This provides for a quick, simplified IT environment and storage management system.
How can this profit you? Time and money are of the essence, especially in the corporate world. PROMENET’s NetApp Solutions can help you to conserve vast amounts of both. NetApp offers a suite of products in the SnapManager™ that facilitate the process of ensuring business application availability. Aside from providing fast and reliable storage, NetApp will simplify backup and recovery, nearly eliminate downtime, and allow more flexibility. This will reduce time to market, advance information availability, improve online response, and impact processes that generate revenue directory or indirectly.
For instance, NetApp’s FlexClone® and SnapShot™ appliances clone applications in record time, enhancing backup and disaster recovery times. Conventionally, in order to restore data made unavailable due to error or corruption, administrators would spend hours, days, or even weeks, sifting through backup tapes trying to find the lost information. By taking “snapshots” of the data at user-defined intervals, compresses hours of searching into mere minutes.
These “snapshots” backup data without consuming additional space then retrieved using multiple drives at once which enhances application performance. Thus, aside from saving precious hours, using NetApp solutions for virtual environments can also cut power and cooling costs by as much as 65%. With energy prices inflating rapidly, investing in a NetApp solution will save your company thousands of dollars.
PROMENET’s elite engineers are certified in the implementation of these progressive NetApp solutions and have an expert understanding of the ways that NetApp can be used to advance your business operations.
