Opportunity spotting for scale up to XP:
- Customers with an inability to scale storage performance and capacity
- Customers with disparate islands of modular storage from multiple vendors
- Customers looking to meet changing business requirements, whilst retaining current IT assets
- Customers needing to store and dispose of sensitive data
The questions you need to be asking:
Question 1
Do you have challenges with storage capacity and/or performance growth?
XP can help these customers through its ability to provide huge levels of scalability of both capacity and performance for critical applications.
Question 2
Do you have challenges with managing multiple pools of storage capacity and have poor storage utilisation?
XP can help these customers through its inbuilt virtualisation capabilities that allow it to encapsulate and extend current storage arrays.
Question 3
Are you under pressure to increase service availability from investors or competitors?
XP can help with its bulletproof hardware platform, which eliminates single points of failure. This provides a fault tolerant storage platform that business can absolutely rely upon. This, coupled with resilient data replication technology, can provide both local and wide area business continuity.
Question 4
Do you have to store sensitive data that needs to be encrypted or deleted with minimal risk?
XP provides data encryption at the controller level without sacrificing performance, it also has the ability to shred sensitive data volumes that have reached the end of their life within an organisation.
Question 5
If your data is unavailable will your business suffer significantly as a result?
XP offers the ability to provide disaster tolerant solutions in conjunction within dustry leading cluster solutions from HP, Microsoft, SUN, Symantec and IBM.
Question 6
Do you need to guarantee performance for specific services?
XP has the capability to partition the array so that resources can be allocated to specific applications, services or customers (if a service provider). QoSS (Quality of Storage Service) tools are also available.
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