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Storage is key for any business, underpinning many key business applications. Enables IT understands the importance of providing efficient storage that meets the resilience and replication requirements to match the common business issues, without incurring unnecessary costs.

Traditionally for Enables IT or any other provider to recommend a SAN storage vendor, it has been important to understand the services that require this storage and also understand the sizes and types of data that are presently stored on the network. This would involve an investigation into the present storage requirements and then a match of different performing storage from a chosen vendor to provide the best balance of cost and performance with the minimum amount of disk wastage. In addition a software solution may have been recommended to provide monitoring of files and placement of files onto appropriate storage tiers

Changes in the storage market place have introduced virtualised storage where the disk block sizes are optimised to work with a virtualised server platform. Performance of each disk is constantly monitored and RAID types can be changed on the fly. Tiering of different performing disks is now automated at the storage layer to ensure optimal performance at all times and also disk wastage becomes a thing of the past as all the storage is pooled together, regardless of its type, speed or physical location in the SAN. Pooled storage also ensure that all disk spindles are available to all servers, dramatically increasing the speed of disk access. Storage can be over provisioned and also de-duplicated to ensure best value.

Enables IT have a full range of storage partners to enable us to provide a solution to meet your budget, with proven methods growth to protect your investment in the future.