Opportunity spotting for upgrades to MSA:
- Large companies that have multiple, smaller departments
- Companies with remote locations
- Smaller companies whose storage needs demand shared resources
- Companies with multi OS / multi vendor IT environments
- Companies looking for entry-level / midrange SANs and low-cost DAS solutions
- Companies looking for modular, reliable, affordable and easy-to-manage shared storage
The questions you need to be asking:
Question 1
Is your growing organisation constrained by tight budgets and limited IT resource?
The shared storage solution provided by HP MSAs can make these customers far more efficient in gathering, sorting, and analysing data – resulting in a greater ROI in people and capital. Meanwhile, the modular design allows customers to start relatively small but support future growth to hundreds of users and up to 14/36TB of storage.
Question 2
Do you find it hard to manage the requirements of different departments as well as those that are located remotely?
HP MSA solutions offer many distinct features such as the ability to mix SAS and SATA RAID sets within the same enclosure, greatly increasing the flexibility and economy of assigning mission-critical data and archival data to the proper drive type. The wide variety of RAID levels supported assures your customers of just the right level of performance and protection demanded by each application. And, with the ability to implement controller-based snapshots and clones, enterprise-class functionality becomes affordable for smaller, growing businesses – as well as for use within departments and remote locations.
Question 3
Are you constantly having to add more servers or upgrade to bigger and faster hard disks or tape drives, to cope with burgeoning volumes of data?
Consolidating storage within a storage area network (SAN) provides an optimum solution for these customers - enabling multiple servers to gain access to shared storage resources. HP MSA solutions enable highly efficient consolidation and sharing of storage that can significantly improve your customers’ IT utilisation efficiency.
Question 4
Are backup windows becoming a problem as the need for 24 x 7 availability of your business-critical data increases?
HP MSA solutions deliver a host of new capabilities – all designed to increase application uptime and ensure that business critical systems are always available. Business downtime is significantly reduced through the use of features such as dual power supplies, optional dual controllers and redundant hardware with automatic failover.
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