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Hosted Performance Storage

The Storage Dilemma - The factors behind the increased data storage burden are multiple. Business compliance directives mean that legally significant data must now be kept for much longer. New Data Protection regulations and an increase in what data companies must keep on file internally now also accounts for some of the increase. If we were to add email, file storage and other digital records to the mix - it’s clear there is significant demand amongst IT Managers for flexible, fully redundant enterprise level storage, at affordable prices.

Outsourcing Your Primary or Secondary Storage

Traditionally, managing a hosted primary storage area network ‘in-house’s has meant a very significant capital outlay in both hardware and infrastructure terms, not to mention the internal skill sets that need to be paid for. New developments such as Storage-On-Demand are opening up new possibilities. More and more businesses are turning to QSix because we have the right partners, and the right experience to deliver high performance QOS Storage, but with major cost savings.

Available in iSCSI and Fibre Channel configurations, Performance Utility Storage delivers the benefits of high-performance mass storage as a managed service, providing fast and efficient storage management and eliminating capital investment in storage systems and labour-intensive systems management. Utility Storage architecture provides storage on demand, allowing you to precisely align your infrastructure with your business needs.

iSCSI - iSCSI is a cost effective solution ideal for mid-range applications that are not latency dependant. Our management portal enables automatic movement of data while it is in use. This technology provides the foundation for online expansion, automatic configuration, performance optimization, and advanced software functionalities - all with continuous access to data. That means no downtime for increasing capacity and most management tasks are handled by the array, not the administrator. As a result, QSix makes enterprise-class shared-block storage practical for all servers and applications.

Fibre Channel - FC SAN is designed for high performance/high transaction applications that simply cannot afford any downtime or tolerate any data loss. Our Fibre Channel SAN provides a bullet-proof platform with complete hardware redundancy, hot-swappable components and non-disruptive upgrades online. Tightly integrated clustering solutions, along with disaster recovery support, enable complete enterprise-class business continuity.

Advantages of Hosted Performance Storage Services:

• Ensures storage capacity never runs out by providing a capacity management service under a Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Applies metering technology that automatically measures and reports storage capacity utilisation
• Priced as $/GB/Month as per clients usage.
• Not required to invest in lower end SAN infrastructure to reduce cost
• Not required to invest in capacity that’s not being used.