Using CloudArray for Multi-Site Consolidation
Imagine running a business where data storage is distributed across 20 geographically separated sites. What happens when one site runs out of storage capacity? What if one site was hit with a disaster? Surely there ought to be a centralized disaster site to protect against site outage or data loss, right? And who manages each site? Would there be an administrator at each site or traveling from site to site? What can you do to ease this management burden?
Cloud Storage Can Simplify Your Multi-site Infrastructure
Public and private cloud storage, accessed through a CloudArray cloud storage gateway appliance provides:
- An unlimited pool of storage that's accessible from each site and never runs out of capacity
- A centralized disaster site with unlimited bandwidth and multi-datacenter redundancy, network optimization and data security
- A centralized portal that monitors and proactively alerts the health status of each site — without an onsite presence
Cloud storage does this via software or hardware cloud storage gateway appliances like CloudArray, that provides optimized data access from each site combined with a central point of management. CloudArray lets you recover your data virtually anywhere, on-premise, off-premise or even in the cloud using pay-as-you-go compute resources, all in minutes. There is indeed a better way to manage growing data storage needs across multiple locations.
DR Anywhere™
For a business that already spans multiple sites, using one of the sites for disaster recovery (DR) may be beneficial, although, it may not be best if the fixed storage capacity would have to be doubled. With cloud storage, secondary data copies can reside in the cloud on a pay-as-you-go basis. The CloudArray cloud storage gateway allows instant access to data from any site if a primary site experiences a disaster. With Cloudarray’s automatic and secure configuration backup, a quick download is all it takes to restore access to data from any site. CloudArray virtual appliances can also be started and run in the cloud, allowing accessing to the cloud data from any location.
Compute Anywhere™
For data volumes that need to be accessed from multiple sites, volumes access points can move across multiple CloudArrays located across multiple physical locations or in the cloud.
