The nature of highly distributed computing systems continues to segment and isolate information resources across the enterprise. Consolidation of these resources into a centralized resource allows significant and proven cost savings with ease of manageability. The powerful high performance capabilities of the BlueArc platform allows for the sustainable scalability required for today’s consolidation of Application servers, Windows and UNIX file servers and NAS appliances.
It’s a story everyone in IT knows: storage sprawls and data crawls. Application servers, storage arrays and NAS filers continue to proliferate, creating a jumbled patchwork of data that seems impossible to manage. Isolated storage islands create hot spots that slow performance to a crawl. And when you add storage or migrate data to remove bottlenecks it drives capacity utilization rates way down. No wonder a recent IDC survey revealed that 80% of the IT organizations in the United States are actively consolidating and they predict the storage consolida tion market to grow to over $4.5 billion by 2009.
Before: Segmented and Highly Distributed Storage Architecture
So far, the industry’s attempts to solve this daunting problem of stor age sprawl, performance shortfalls, and poor utilization have ended up failing. Fortunately, there is a solution and world-class companies have discovered a way to vault ahead of the competition and break the cycle of sprawl and crawl: BlueArc Titan Network Storage. BlueArc Titan Network Storage, in use today by leading organizations across all industries, is built on a unique hardware accelerated archi tecture and a rich set of storage software. It has the high performance, massive scalability, and built in intelligence to handle the most demanding application environments – as exemplified by its wide adoption in the film animation, internet services and the life sciences markets. Those same proven capabilities also mean Titan servers deliver the ability to halt data sprawl and deliver storage consolidation for any kind of business. In fact, whether you are seeking to consoli date your infrastructure by reducing the number of server and storage devices or by streamlining provisioning and your deployment of applications, Titan high performance network storage is the answer.
After: Consolidated and Simplified Storage Architecture
In the past, IT organizations have found storage system proliferation to be the inevitable
result of their efforts to meet the needs of the
business. Today, it does not have to be that
way. Titan can now enable thousands of users
and hundreds of compute nodes on different
operating systems to be served concurrently
while delivering data access at dramatically
higher rates than traditional storage systems.
Titan consolidates and manages up to 4PB of
Fibre Channel and SATA storage in a single
shared storage pool. That kind of power
boosts organizational productivity, lowers
total cost of ownership and ensures a rapid
ROI. Users working on even the largest
data sets see dramatic improvements in
information storage, sharing and retrieval.
In addition to its leading performance and
scalability, Titan provides an advanced virtualization framework that enable enterprise
consolidation. One of the key elements is
BlueArc’s Cluster Name Space (CNS) that
creates a unified directory structure up to
4PB and allows global access to all the data
in the storage infrastructure regardless of
client operating system or file system location.
Another important feature is the BlueArc
Virtual Servers. They can be created for different departments, user groups, projects or
applications. Each Virtual Server can then
have different IP addresses and secure data
management policies. Once defined, they
can be moved around at-will between
Titans for the purpose of load balancing or
to manage planned downtime. Lastly, Titan
also includes Virtual Volumes and Storage
Pools. They enable storage administrators
to over-subscribe the physical storage and
apply quota policies that can dynamically
expand or contract as needed.
The result? Dramatically better storage utilization with exactly the capacity you need when you need it. There’s no more excess cost from over-provisioning and complexity is drastically reduced. When ombined together, the advanced virtualization framework provides the flexibility to optimize the storage capabilities to support a wide range of application requirements and the power to rapidly provision more capacity as business requirements change. Furthermore, as data moves through its life cycle the data can be transparently migrated from one tier of storage to another to better support the user workflow and to provide the most appropriate storage media for the task.
If you are ready to put storage sprawl, performance bottlenecks an underutilization behind you, it’s time for a high performance Titan solution. Scale to change hundreds of terabytes to multiple petabytes, rapidly increase your capacity, centralize management, automate repetitive tasks, and greatly boost performance without changing the way users access their data.
BlueArc Titan Network Storage can uniquely deliver massive storage consolidation. Its leading performance and scalability enables
it to reduce the number of hardware devices while still supporting
very large numbers of concurrent users and a wide variety of workloads. Fewer devices translate into less power, cooling and floor
space consumption. It also means big savings because fewer software licenses and service contracts are required to support the
same amount of users.
In addition, Titan’s advanced virtualization framework simplifies
provisioning and allows storage administrators to optimize their storage for different application requirements. Finally, its tiered storage
with policy based data migration insures that the most appropriate
storage media can always be used and data can be moved transparently between tiers without disruption to users and applications.
The result is a dramatically simpler, more responsive, and lower cost storage infrastructure. Eliminate the legacy of sprawl and crawl. Consolidate your infrastructure onto a BlueArc Titan Network Storage Solution today.