Storage

Storage > Business issues

Data volumes are increasing, perhaps by as much as 50% per annum and yet the pressure is on to reduce the cost of managing this increasing expansion and at the same time, to provide greater levels of availability and reliability.

Many applications are reliant upon the functionality of the storage systems too with services such as data replication, snap-shots and volume clones taking place with the arrays.

A great deal of consolidation has taken place with the deployment of Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage systems with the result that many users, servers or applications have become dependent upon the availability of these systems and the interconnecting switch infrastructure.

Who really knows how much storage is actually in use? And at what rate it is growing and when the current capacity is going to be reached?

Increasingly, organisations are looking for accurate reporting, immediate incident detection and for those looking to deploy utility storage, the metering of storage capacity with associated billing information.

Storage > The Anix Service

Anix is able to monitor and manage most storage infrastructure platforms including the switch infrastructure and host bus adaptors.

Storage resource management, capacity, performance management and LUN allocation are all aspects of the Anix Managed Service included as standard. Anix’s toolset is able to detect incidents based on a vast number of metrics and report or take appropriate action depending upon the requirements.

Storage platforms managed by Anix include:

• EMC
• HDS
• HP
• IBM
• NetApp

Unlike hardware manufacturers, Anix is able to provide a utility infrastructure across heterogeneous server and storage platforms and is able to include software and service charges too.

Storage > Key benefits

• Establish known and predictable support costs for your storage infrastructure
• Receive enterprise class management, reporting and analysis
• Understand exactly what storage is deployed and be alerted when thresholds are reached
• Pay for the services as you use them