Trends efficient storage solutions

Small and medium enterprises often have a limited IT budget. With efficient storage solutions, IT managers can get more performance and capacity at a lower cost.
Even small and medium-sized companies today generate terabytes of mission-critical data. To manage the flow of data, IT managers need affordable solutions that provide sufficient storage capacity and performance and security required. Modern technologies of storage and complete hardware and software that provide a rich set of features, keeping costs low acquisition and maintenance.Four key trends for efficient storage solutions

First Automatic distribution among different classes of units (level)
Soon hard drives at 15,000 revolutions per minute (rpm) and a SAS interface and SSDs are expensive, but offer only a relatively low capacity of about 600 GB per disc. Slower the S-ATA or SAS drives with 7,200 rpm NL on the market much more cheaply and with a volume of up to 3 TB. For large drives deliver less performance. Modern systems such as EqualLogic storage arrays and Dell Compellent to distribute data files, the server dynamically to different types of plates. The storage controller while monitoring the access to individual data blocks. The so-called "hot" blocks of land with a lot of disk traffic quickly. Less active "cold" data is placed in large units, but slower. Using this method allows a large number of disk drives, thereby saving space, as well as conditioning costs, both current and air.
Second server and storage virtualization
Most companies today investing in virtualization hosts Serverlösungen.Wenige physical resources are allocated dynamically in dozens of virtual servers with the respective services and data. Virtual servers and customers have virtualized storage systems, also dynamically, memory resources of a core group. Technologies such as thin provisioning and dynamic Dell solutions are used to ensure that only the data blocks occupying the physical space. A virtual server with 100 GB of disk consumes only 12 GBytes shown in the storage medium, while only 12 GB. Therefore, IT managers can equip their first environment with smaller storage solutions, since only real carrying capacity must be physically available. If free space is low, the user can update their systems virtualized storage without downtime. For companies to pay only for capacity that currently occupy.
Third Backup with Deduplication
The data deduplication technology blocks away twice or more repetitions saved and replaced with cross references. 0Dieses "single instance" can theoretically be used for primary data storage. There are, however, the technology costs a great performance with a relatively modest savings. With disk-based backup solutions, however, this technology has on all their skills. A backup job, which guarantees five groups of Windows servers, while the data only once Windows system events. The following four systems show only the data blocks that are different from the first computer. Backup Devices Dell PowerVault DL2200 security as combining a high performance server software backup deduplication ..
Fourth cloud solutions
In order to ensure a failsafe operation, even smaller companies often have to operate two data centers: The main implements all the necessary services and houses all the data in real time. The secondary data center to keep a backup of the primary circuit and can take more than a total failure. Only for the maintenance of a small data center in a geographically separate second is expensive. Instead of second place in the future may also reflect the small and medium sized enterprises and data services for cloud service providers. This will set the decentralized control. If the data center of a company from complete, the staff through a VPN connection in the mirror systems in the supplier can access and continue working. .
Conclusion: you get the right combination of efficient storage systems and services in the cloud medium solutions with the functionality of the company. The acquisition and maintenance costs remain relatively low. Dell as a supplier of solutions for midsize companies to offer customized solutions from a single source and supports the IT manager of the design phase to commissioning