Good to be Green

How on earth (no pun intended) do you draw a link between “green” and perceivably cumbersome IT infrastructures?  With data and information growing at extraordinary rates, organizations are faced with challenges associated with space and energy.   But going green is not mutually exclusive from deploying savvy power, cooling and space solutions.  And at the end of the day, maintaining a small footprint on and in your business will help drive monetary and production efficiencies.

ArcaStor maintains the following practices to help facilitate matters of power, climate control and space requirements all while still having green implications:

Go Small

In recent years, disk capacity has become more efficient as arrays have scaled down and disk capacity has increased.  As such, direct-attached storage and older arrays have larger power, heat and space requirements.  Replacing these antiquated systems could lead to green storage savings that could lower power consumption up to 75 percent.

Recognize how to Virtualize

Because non-virtualized storage area network systems are dedicated to a single server, they are intrinsically inefficient at utilizing disk storage.  However, in a virtualized system, if only a portion of the server is utilized, the additional storage is available for other servers to access.  ArcaSAN combines disk storage into a single virtual pool from which capacity is allocated when it is needed.

Enable Flexibility

ArcaStor enables flexibility of data migration across various tiers of storage.  The end result is greater performance with reduced costs as less critical data is moved from higher performance drives to less cumbersome storage.  The success of this flexibility comes from ArcaStor’s seamless transition of data from one system to the next without disruption.

Expand in Increments

Disks that are unused are simply a waste…and while some manufacturers require adding disks in bulk, ArcaStor enables you to add drives as you need them, keeping utilization rates directly correlated to the space you need.

Navigate Redundancy

Space in data centers is always critical, and with growth comes the necessity for flexibility to move components from an over-loaded data center to a less crowded one.  ArcaSAN takes full advantage of the geographically distributed storage cluster, by writing each storage volume across two locations within the system.  If one site goes down, your servers will be automatically redirected to the volume at the surviving location.