Scalar Storage Consolidation Breakfast

Find it, Consolidate it, Make it Faster.

Most enterprises suffer from the fundamental problem of not having a clear understanding of their data and therefore of how their storage is being utilized. Unstructured information—the billions of files and e-mail not stored in databases—often represents 70% to 80% of data stored online.

The dramatic growth of data has led to a proliferation of Windows and Unix file servers that can number in the hundreds or even thousands. The consequences of such complex infrastructures include extremely high overhead costs, poorly utilized server and storage assets, difficult and time-consuming backup and restore processes, and reduced system availability. Consolidating Windows and Unix data onto a highly available storage solution dramatically simplifies your file serving environment, creating valuable management, performance, and cost efficiencies – all while enabling policy compliance for regulatory and corporate governance.

Centralized storage is a blessing to storage and backup administrators and a bane to users in remote offices.  WAN connected users have the same requirements of storage access as local ones, but due to high latency links, long distances and limited bandwidth this can be a formidable task.

Please join Scalar Decisions for a breakfast session exploring real world solutions from Kazeon, Netapp and Riverbed that will enable you to find, categorize, consolidate and access your data many times faster over WAN distances.