Moving to the cloud isn’t a simple process, its time consuming, complex and can be difficult in certain areas. We begin the process by working with you to understand your IT infrastructure environment to then assess what is “cloud ready” and to point out other factors like capacity, resource consumption to give you an understanding on what your monthly bills could roughly look like.
A cloud strategy is defined by the outcomes of your business which will typically mean to deliver applications and services for your organisation to succeed. Where Hybrid cloud comes into play is that keeping mission critical, highly secure, and sensitive data and predictable outcomes on-premises with scalable and elastic cloud native application running from a public cloud.
Hybrid cloud combines on-premises IT infrastructure with off-premises cloud-based services and resources, for example the Public Cloud. Building a tailored solution for your organisation with the help from CSW-IT can quickly identify where you can gain quick wins with public cloud and long-term advantages with highly available on-premises solutions.
Backup solutions need to be seen as part of the production environment but placed in another location that works towards your BC and DR plans.
The right backup solution needs to be flexible, simple, highly secure and works with all vendor hypervisors so you can easily backup, restore, replicate, and manage.
The current trend with malicious actors is to target your backup environment first and then your production environment second.
Data Immutability helps combat malicious actors externally and internally trying to modify or delete your backups. Data Immutability places a lock on the data for a duration set by the administrator to protect your backup data so it cannot be compromised. Data Immutability is a MUST when it comes to backup technology.
If its performance that you want, then All Flash storage is what you need. Over the years All Flash storage arrays have been expensive and today they still have that reputation but in fact the costs have dramatically dropped and the All-Flash array Vs Hybrid Array coming down to costs isn’t really a factor anymore.
All Flash arrays will accelerate all your workloads with its ultra-low latency, leverage Deduplication and Compression technology to reduce storage capacity, being highly available, scalable, and resilient.
Use cases for All Flash storage arrays are beneficial for data analytics, transactional work, and business critical workloads.
If its cost savings vs performance and you are favouring costs savings, then a Hybrid array may be the right solution for your organisation.
Using a mix of Solid-State Drives (SSD) and Hard-Disk Drives (HDD), provides a balanced infrastructure with an increase of performance for workloads. Hybrid arrays keeps a bulk of your data on spinning disks comprised of HDD and then storing the most frequently used data on SSD for higher performance.
Use cases for Hybrid arrays would be for organisations that need more storage for Tier 2 workloads but still require performance for Tier 1 workloads.
Object Storage offers an alternative approach to NAS/SAN systems. Data is bundled with customised metadata tags and unique identifiers to form objects. Objects are stored in a flat address space and there is no limit to the number of objects stored. Organisation can keep u with the massive storage growth and IO demands of critical business workloads.
Backups, Archives, Images, Video, CCTV Footage, and data that cannot be compressed or data that you do not want stored on your primary array then these are just some examples where object storage can fit into your organisation and your organisations data lifecycle policies.
Backup solutions need to be seen as part of the production environment but placed in another location that works towards your BC and DR plans.
The right backup solution needs to be flexible, simple, highly secure and works with all vendor hypervisors so you can easily backup, restore, replicate, and manage.
The current trend with malicious actors is to target your backup environment first and then your production environment second.
Data Immutability helps combat malicious actors externally and internally trying to modify or delete your backups. Data Immutability places a lock on the data for a duration set by the administrator to protect your backup data so it cannot be compromised. Data Immutability is a MUST when it comes to backup technology.
