Aside from the cost reduction and simplicity benefits, the most compelling reasons for the adoption of network storage over IP are:

 

Storage and Sever Consolidation - The best method to offset massive expenses of maintaining excess peripherals as well as sharing storage, reducing network traffic, Power, heat and CPU consumption.  Centralized storage provisioning allows for additional storage on an as needed basis without disruption to production systems.

 

Backup and Restore – Valuable solution to reduce the backup windows and restore time when used in conjunction with Disk-to-Disk (D2D) and Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T) technologies.

 

Data Migration – Allows for moving away from the legacy DAS to the more flexible SANs which provide a greater means of sharing centralized storage as well as a more efficient way to move older data to a tiered storage subsystem for long term archival and to meet federal mandates for compliancy and extended records keeping.

 

Disaster Recovery – Perfect solution for remote data replication and the ability to back up critical data locally as well as remotely over IP and compliancy with business continuance requirements.

 

NAS Gateway Integration – NAS gateways consist of NAS appliances with bear minimum storage that connect to high-performance, RAID protected back-end SAN storage through one or more Gigabit or faster iSCSI port, providing both file and block based data storage that is manageable, flexible and scalable.

 

Cost Effective Clustering – To provide high availability with mirrored systems for a cost effective fault-tolerant solution.

 

Variel’s iSCSI-based storage solutions operating at Multi-Gigabit or 10 Gigabit wire-speeds are well suited for many business applications including: