As your business grows, so do your storage requirements. But adding new storage increases your power consumption, as reflected in your monthly electricity bill. In fact, since 2000, data centres across the UK have doubled the power they use to about 44 billion kilowatt-hours. In addition to increased power consumption, growth also strains the physical capacity of your facilities. This may leave you faced with expansion or, worse, building a new enterprise data centre - something that could take years and require a large capital investment.
Aside from the space and monetary considerations, we all must deal with the prevailing “green” public attitude. Power generation causes carbon emissions, and looming in the future may be new legislation aimed at cutting the energy consumption of data centres.
Some answers lie in the physical consolidation of servers using blades and virtualisation software. Storage systems offer another major opportunity to cut power consumption and reduce costs. With Lanway's help, you can take important steps that will increase the efficiency of your IT operations.
The Solution
Consolidate data centre storage on NetApp’s unified architecture At NetApp, we believe that you can keep pace with your company’s growing need for data input and output, without a corresponding jump in your consumption of electricity. You can reduce your carbon footprint and add to your bottom line at the same time.
Just as virtualisation software is changing the server landscape, our software technology maximises the use of storage hardware. The heart of Lanway's solution is the NetApp operating system, the platform for all of our storage systems. It emphasises storage efficiency while unifying your data storage and management. In fact, an independent customer survey found that our fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems consume about half as much power, cooling, and rack space per usable terabyte as do comparable systems from our competitors.
Unified Storage
If your data centres are like most, you operate a diverse set of storage systems, each of which performs a specific function. With our storage solutions, you can centralise your data storage and cut your power costs at the same time. Some of the changes we help you make include:
Reduction in complexity: You can satisfy multiple needs simultaneously with our unified storage systems. Our products include native support for SAN and NAS protocols and their network interfaces, eliminating the need for gateways or separate storage systems.
Better utilisation of current systems: You can set up multiple storage tiers on the same system using FC, SAS, and SATA disk drives. Primary and secondary (disk-to-disk backup and archival) storage can also reside in the same system. Our FlexShareTM quality-of-service software helps keep it all in balance.
More efficient use of data centre resources: In addition to simplifying your data management, our unified approach results in far fewer spinning disks that cost you money through power consumption, cooling, and data centre space.
Reduce costs and Increase efficiency
You can manage your data more efficiently while conserving your power and space requirements when you use Lanway's operating system know-how.
Lanway can supply and support all number of NetApp solutions from the FAS6200 series through to the V-Series. For more information on any of the NetApp solutions contact our sales team by clicking on the right hand link at the top of this page.