According to recent studies, the storage requirements for major companies’ accounts grow by at least 100% every year. So with the need to maintain constant online access to data, the challenge of data storage management has become a very important one.

Workable solutions have been developed in response to this challenge - from storage devices inside or directly attached to the server, to Network Attached Storage (NAS) that moves devices away from the service and connects them directly to the network.

Yet how do you store data without tying up network capacity?

Responding To Today’s Storage Needs

Storage Area Networks (SANs) answer the needs of today’s data intensive network environments, transforming data storage investments into efficient architectures. This dedicated, centrally managed secure infrastructure makes storage devices available to all servers on the SAN.

Responding To Our Clients’ Needs

But it’s simply not enough to implement a SAN. It must be implemented correctly or risk poor performance, data loss or additional, unnecessary costs. CDI has the deep technical knowledge and experience to plan, design, implement and test SANs, accurately, efficiently and cost-effectively.

Three steps to effective storage solutions

Our project engagement approach consists of three phases with one goal in mind — to ensure your storage needs are met and your expectations exceeded.

Planning and Design

• Verify business requirements and provide configuration recommendations
• Design SAN architecture:
• Port layout to provide redundancy at the HBA, cable, GBIC, and switch processor levels
• Standardized naming conventions for WWN nicknames, zones, and zone sets
• Design zones and zone sets according to industry best practices

Implementation and Testing

• Install and configure the fibre channel switches
• Install HBAs (host bus adapters) and their associated drivers and firmware
• Install Storage Resource Management (SRM) software
• Documentation, Knowledge Transfer and Acceptance
• Produce, deliver, and review configuration documentation and conduct knowledge transfer

The Novem team utilises best of breed products and services to help ensure a seamless, reliable SAN. Whether only two servers are required on a network to access a central pool of storage devices, or several thousand servers are needed to access terabytes of data, Novem is the company you can rely on to meet all your SAN needs, all the time.

"Novem is an IT infrastructure services company that lends knowledge, experience and credibility to helping companies facilitate communications and collaboration between employees, partners and customers around the world."

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