Storage Optimization

As data growth continues to accelerate, all organizations face increasing pressures to improve the utilization of storage assets.  Not only is poorly utilized storage expensive, but it is also very energy and space inefficient. 

Storage optimization is the process of allocating your storage resources based on information type. Not all information needs to be stored for extended periods of time on tier-one primary disk systems.  Storage optimization efforts move data to the most appropriate tier of storage and applies appropriate retention and disposition policies to improve efficiency. 

From an IT resources perspective, storage optimization has many benefits. By moving static data from primary disk systems to purpose built archive tiers, tremendous cost and savings can be attained.  Storage efficiencies are gained by moving archive information out of the backup and replication streams.  Finally, data can be made be made more available and secure. 

Benefits
Low cost of ownership – Alliance Storage Technologies solutions utilize appropriate storage  to provide the least expensive total cost of ownership compared with other storage options

Automation – Alliance Storage Technologies solutions allow for automated movement of data, allowing you to improve storage utilization while using fewer staff resources

Consolidation – Alliance Storage Technologies solutions can serve as a consolidation point for archive information, eliminating inefficient storage silos

Decreased cycle times – By moving archive information out of the primary backup path, backup windows are shortened, allowing for greater system availability and efficiency

Scalability – Solutions are designed to meet the needs of your operations today and scale with your business needs over time, eliminating the need to buy expensive extra capacity

Flexibility – Alliance Storage Technologies solutions provide the right combination of technologies to create solution to accommodate multiple archive “pools”, allowing you to optimize your archives

Secure second copy – Alliance Storage Technologies solutions allow you to create a secure immutable second copy of archive information, maximizing data protection, and meeting corporate governance requirements at low a cost.

Fast Data Access – unlike tape, Alliance Storage Technologies’s integrated offerings deliver high-performance read/write speeds and random access, allowing you the ability to deliver fast access at low cost

Customer Experiences
Citistreet
”We were accumulating large amounts of data which required on-line storage in our production systems. The majority of this data was accessed very infrequently, if at all, but was being kept due to business needs...This on-line data was increasing the capacity needs of the disk subsytems.  In addition to disk space, this data was being backed up every week during full system backups.  This caused the backup window to increase to the point of being unusable, and would require large capital outlays for additional hardware and backup media.  As a result, a near-line archiving solution was required.”  - Jeff Machols – Systems Integration Manager
 
Loyens & Loeff
“The Alliance Storage Technologies Archive Appliance matched our business and technical email archive requirements.  We calculated that installing a Alliance Storage Technologies archive could save us more than 280,000 euros over the next five years when compared to our current EMC storage.  This savings is achieved through lower purchase and operating costs and since the Archive Appliance uses very stable UDO media it also eliminates the need for archive backup. This saves us money, but also reduces our backup window and IT resources.”  Kees Spranger, Sr. Systems Engineer

Our Partners
Technology Partners

Network Appliance
“The trend toward virtualization is causing customers to rethink their backup architecture and processes. But other demands such as archiving are driving data management issues that are larger than just backup alone and making what customers need to manage today a lot broader. Together with Alliance Storage Technologies, we are helping our customers to achieve new levels of operational efficiencies and to address their challenges in archiving.” - Patrick Rogers, Vice President of Solutions Marketing at NetApp

New Wave Automation
“Uncontrolled data growth is affecting casinos just as it is other organizations and this growth is driving is driving up their operational costs.  As a result, these business are looking to meet strict service level agreements for performance, cost and protection and Alliance Storage Technologies’s Archive Appliance is what we recommend to our customers as the answer.” ­­- Jim Back, President

Alliance Storage Technologies Products

Archive Appliance - combines the simplicity of network-attached RAID, with the longevity and authenticity of UDO for cost effective long term storage

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Other Information
Alliance Storage Technologies Archive File Manager by ESG – Learn the critical role that Archive File Manager plays in optimizing storage resources.