Hosted Performance Storage

Organisations face an ever increasing data storage burden. Compliance requirements and data protection regulations require organisations to retain significant data volumes for much longer periods of time than what has been the norm historically. If we add email, file storage and other digital records to the mix, there is significant demand for flexible, fully redundant enterprise-level storage at affordable prices.

Managing primary data storage in-house requires a significant capital outlay in hardware and a high cost for internal skills. However, the availability of hosted storage on demand is opening up new possibilities.

The power of a SAN delivered as a service

Dimension Data Hosted Performance Storage was developed to answer our clients’ needs for high-performance storage with major cost savings. We have the partners, experience and expertise to deliver this need.

Drawing on new technologies from World Class, Enterprise Storage Providers, Dimension Data can design and implement storage area network (SAN) infrastructure using Fibre Channel or FATA disks. This storage can be connected to your hosted compute servers in our hosted centres in Sydney and Melbourne, or by fibre to your office to facilitate connection to your existing server infrastructure

Our Hosted Performance Storage uses a per-gigabyte pricing model, meaning you only pay for the storage you need.

Key benefits

• Enjoy the cost savings, consolidation and asset optimisation resources of a fully virtualised storage infrastructure

• Access a range of affordable disaster recovery options for organisations of all sizes

• Simplify storage management, consolidation, virtualisation and data migration with advanced management tools

• Dramatically increase disk utilisation to more than 80% (compared to 25–40 % for traditional, non-virtualised storage)

• Manage more storage with less effort and fewer resources

Hosted Performance Storage

Dimension Data Hosted Performance Storage makes storage and SAN infrastructures efficient, fault tolerant, flexible and virtual. This solution fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services.

Performance storage options

• Four tiers of storage

• Five hosted centres: Optus Ultimo Sydney, Global Switch Sydney, Equinix Sydney, Dimension Data North Ryde, Soul Melbourne

• Connection to remote servers using Fibre Channel over dark fibre, where available

• Multiple replication, archiving and high-availability options

Choice of platforms

• Runs on all major virtual server platforms including Citrix XenServer, Sun, Virtual Iron, VMware, Oracle, and Microsoft. Also supports Mac OS, Netware, Linux, UNIX and Microsoft Windows clients

• Supports iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage protocols from a single storage server

Powerful capabilities

• Provides fast point-in-time copies of volumes for backups and testing

• Can replicate storage to remote disaster recovery sites over IP connections