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Don’t panic. Yet.
The Working world produces a lot of data. This is not new news. We use future saturated terms like “zettabyte” “petabyte” or “exabyte” and seem rather unfazed by just how many zeroes those prefixes symbolize.
Businesses are on the front lines of the Data explosion.
While there are massive opportunities in the proper exploitation of Data , there are also critical questions. The most critical question is also the simplest: Where to put it all?
Solution: Data Storage.
While overarching issues like data management, governance and organization are quite serious, the fundamental issue of Data Storage underlies all other concerns. In the Working World, demand for storage capacity is growing at a compound annual growth rate of over 43% from 2008-2013. . This curve is not expected to bend downward any time soon.
The Prefix Crisis
One of the main issues facing the Working World in the coming years is the exhaustion of prefixes that can be paired with “byte”.
thisreallybytes (10^50)
areyoukiddibyte (10^30)
Ridicubyte (10^25)
Exabyte (10^12)
petabyte (10^15)
terabyte (10^12)
gigabyte (10^9)
megabyte (10^6)
kilobyte (10^3)
byte (8)
bit (1)
Data growth drivers
Social Media Data Streams
HD-Quality content boom
Increased focus on Data security
Proliferation of new applications
Regulations and governance
the cloud
The damn kids
Everyday. 15 Petabytes of data is created, eight times more information than is in all US libraries. Combined.
There are four layers of consideration for implementing a data storage strategy.
Unification of Storage: Storage systems must be able to seamlessly service applications requiring both block services (SAN) and file services (NAS). This will be a significant technology hurdle to overcome given their vastly different performance, workloads, IO profiles and reliability requirements, as well as the need to provide an intuitive, easy-to-use management interface.
User Interface: Storage systems must be easy to use, which ironically, makes the system inherently more complex. Installation must be intuitive, diagnosis and reporting must be dynamic, automated and transparent and maintenance must be simple with minimal risk of bringing the system down.
Automation: Data tiering must be automated, dynamic in nature, transparent to the user, yet visible to the IT administrator. Administrators must be confident that data will be reliably stored on the appropriate storage medium relative to performance, cost, power consumption, QoS, age and access requirements.
Analytics: Sophisticated analytics tools are required to provide a concise overview of system operations and rapidly pinpoint areas of concern. Capacity planning, data growth management and complex configuration planning will be baseline expectations for future storage systems and will be necessary to enable system automation.
If data storage sounds more complicated than you thought it would be, it’s because it is.
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a data storage strategy
GTS Managed Storage is a turnkey, state-of-the-art data storage product suite from the most trusted B2B solutions provider in the CEE region. GTS provides standardized data storage services delivered over their backbone regional network, utilizing their proven and trusted infrastructure of Data Centers and expert service personnel.
Designed to respond to the continuously evolving needs of customers, both within the GTS Data Center and without, GTS Managed Storage delivers around the clock business operations, fail safe storage systems, backup, archiving and recovery services and all-important regulatory compliance
GTS Managed Storage is divided into three performance related tiers.
Tier 1
The storage space offering highest performance in I/O and the highest priority for data processing and is delivered with Solid State Drives (SSD) or Fiber Channel (FC) may be used for mission critical applications and databases which require highest read/write operations per second. This variant is available only for full chassis as a minimum component.
Tier 2
The storage space delivered with the SAS drives suitable for most of the applications and databases where the performance is important, but not crucial and is delivered with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Drives for productions and business critical applications and databases which require high read/write operations per second. This variant is available both for the Standard Space and Dedicated LUN.
Tier 3
This variant is available both for the Standard Space and Dedicated LUN. suitable for day-to-day files storing and processing and is delivered with Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) Drives for multipurpose data storage activities – backups, archiving, large volume stores etc.
data accessibility
storing Data is one thing. Getting to it is another thing entirely.
GTS SAAS aims for delivering various options for storage space.
VHE (cloud) access
Suitable for most of the solutions where the Storage Space is assigned to the Customer from the multitenant, enterprise storage array through the virtual hosting environment. Cloud storage can be a standard shared disk configuration, or if needed by the client, an optional dedicated disk.
DEDICATED ACCESS/COLOCATION
Suitable for special cases where the Storage Space with the appropriate configuration is delivered with the single tenant storage array dedicated to the Customer.
access portal
GTS offers a fully customizable customer portal for maximum governance of data by the client. GTS can work with the customer to craft a unique keyhole portal for each customer based on needs and capabilities and allowing for performance monitoring, space usage monitoring, reporting and alerting as well as on-demand provisioning.
GTS Managed Storage
Product features
Reachability is Working.
GTS top flight data services makes it easier to reach your data once it is stored.
Security is Working.
GTS Managed Storage is housed in the GTS data centers, with full fail-safe redundancy and environmental/intrusion protection. Bundled with GTS security services, including RAID leveling, (dedicated storage only) Data Replication, Data Shredding and Data Encryption, you can be sure your Data is not only sound, but safe.
Scalability is Working.
GTS can provide additional storage and network on demand. Storage Resources can be scaled up (most likely) or down (unlikely) and the costs associated are scaled to reflect these data realities.
The one time doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is a sign of sanity.
Data backup is perhaps the critical issue with data storage. GTS offers a full range of back-up and archiving services through their managed storage offer.
GTS delivers backup service to all Managed Storage products. Either managed by GTS with agreed upon schedules and protocols, or set up for self administration, GTS BackUp allows for building comprehensive and manageable data strategies for either full or incremental backups.
Source data type: What kind of data the backup is made of
Backup space: Set up a predefined schedule for all backups
Backup type: Choose the target backup medium (tape, disc, DVD/BluRay)
Backup Policy: Choose standard GTS preset policies or build custom policies.
Backup Source: Define from where the data is backed up (VHE, Dedicated, colocation, Remote site)
Backup Location: Choose where the data is stored (on-site, off-site or disaster recovery locations)
Connectivity: Choose how to connect to the backup service (on-site, off-site, disaster recovery locations)
Customer Portal: Define level of control for administering/accessing backup functions
Components for building the a back-up strategy that can last:
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