Like virtually all aspects of IT, the world of storage and servers is evolving at a rapid pace. The days of organisations relying on a single local server with storage on the back end are long gone. Modern enterprise storage infrastructures can involve hundreds or even thousands of interconnected users, applications, network connections and devices – all in different locations. What’s more, these infrastructures now often use a mix of on-premises storage and public cloud, leading to a lack of visibility and making them increasingly difficult to monitor and manage effectively. Not surprisingly, many organisations are feeling the strain. Monitoring and managing a new generation of increasingly complex and geographically dispersed server and storage infrastructure requires an enormous amount of time, as well as attention from already overstretched IT teams. Not only do they have to meet ever-changing user demands for capacity and throughput; they also have to control numerous operational factors to ensure seamless service delivery. Downtime and disruption must be kept to an absolute minimum.
DCNART’s server and storage range offers fully scalable and customer- and environment-specific solutions.
ServersA server is a computer or system that shares resources, data, services or programs with other computers called clients over a network. In theory, whenever computers share resources with client machines they are considered servers. A single system can simultaneously share resources and use them from another system. This means that a machine can be both a server and a client at the same time. As technology has evolved, the definition of a server has evolved with it. Today, a server can be nothing more than software running on one or more physical computing devices. Such servers are often referred to as virtual servers.
DCNART offers a full portfolio of servers and applications, among others:
Storage is a device for storing or archiving computer data in electromagnetic, optical, digital or other formats. Data can be stored locally, on external disks, on remote devices, on removable media or online (in the cloud). For large amounts of data, companies often use storage area networks (SANs), network attached storage (NAS) devices, software-defined storage (SDS) or cloud storage.
A SAN is a dedicated network that connects storage devices to servers. SANs provide block-level storage, typically over a Fibre Channel connection. A NAS device can be a purpose-built storage device or a general-purpose server running Windows or Linux. NAS devices provide file-level storage over a standard Ethernet connection. SDS is a virtualised network of storage resources that can use regular hardware. Software-defined storage resources can be distributed across multiple servers and collected or shared as if they were on a single physical device. Cloud-based storage provides storage as a service to multiple clients on demand.
Organisations that need to store large amounts of unstructured data (such as emails, presentations, documents, graphics and multimedia files) often use a software-defined storage solution to scale storage capacity as needed.
DCNART offers a full portfolio of storage and applications including:
