1. Five Reasons to Move to A
Unified Storage Platform
Today
PRESENTED BY TYRONE SYSTEMS
2. By bringing block- and file-based data
together onto a single platform, unified
storage frees administrators from having
to manage multiple sets of tools and
pools of disparate storage.
A Single Point of Management
and Administration
3. Without unified storage, one system may be
fully utilized while another has plenty of
capacity, but since the two are not
interchangeable the available capacity does
little good. This means additional storage
must be purchased and provisioned,
consuming precious budget and valuable
time.
Simplified Scalability
4. Unified storage can reduce hardware
requirements by combining separate storage
platforms, such as NAS for file-based storage
and disk arrays for block-based storage, into a
single device. And generally speaking, the less
hardware deployed, the less maintenance and
management it requires, saving costs and
freeing up staff for more strategic endeavors.
Less Hardware to Maintain
5. While the hardware costs of unified storage
systems are in the same ballpark as
deploying separate systems, a good unified
system offers advanced features and
functionality that can improve the overall
return on storage investments.
Valuable Feature Sets
6. Perhaps the greatest opportunity for unified
storage comes when an application that was
written exclusively for one type of storage
can now “see” them all. This can breathe new
life into a legacy application, allowing it to
work with file-, block- and object-based
data, even though it may have been written
only to work with files.
Application Longevity
