Single-Server Solution to Storage Management

Performance has always come at a steep cost in the world of enterprise storage, with flexibility often taking a back seat when it comes to IT purchasing decisions. In fact, storage has typically been bought and deployed as a “one size fits all” solution, regardless of the kinds of applications the network is running. Such an approach has required multiple servers to address multiple needs, resulting in significantly higher costs and a much greater degree of management complexity.

BlueArc's Intelligent Tiered Storage solution changes all that. Intelligent Tiered Storage allows you to consolidate and deploy different types of storage within the same network attached storage system, all based on the specific requirements of the applications you're running. For the first time, you can now manage the diversity inherent in a combination of high-performance online, moderate performance nearline and infrequently accessed archival data, all from a single, seamless NAS platform - a BlueArc Storage Server. The benefits tell the story:

Intelligent Tiered Storage Features and Benefits

Unprecedented Flexibility

• The multi-tiered approach of BlueArc's Tiered Storage solution allows you to meet the specific requirements of your applications by mixing and matching storage to achieve the optimal blend of performance, capacity and cost - all without having to resort to expensive and cumbersome multiple server solutions.

Simplified Management

• With Intelligent Tiered Storage, a single BlueArc Server can manage a complex mix of storage tiers that run the gamut from high-priority and high-performance data down through low-cost, always-online disks used as storage vaults for email, image and document archives. Tiered Storage uniquely simplifies and integrates the overall system management of your storage solution.

Pay as you go

• BlueArc Intelligent Tiered Storage takes the guess work out of storage acquisition and deployment. With Intelligent Tiered Storage, you can buy the right type of storage at the right price point as you need it. No need to guess and overbuy or underbuy the wrong storage. Just add the storage that meets your needs which allows you to select and buy the storage you need when you need it.

Groundbreaking Ease of Storage Management

• Consolidating storage using BlueArc's Intelligent Tiered Storage solution removes the burden and complex management of tape archival. It all translates into faster access to data, better network utilization - and ultimately, lower overall storage costs and a greater return on investment.

Faster Access, Higher Performance

• Reduced management complexity is just part of the Intelligent Tiered Storage story. By decreasing the number of systems within your data center, Intelligent Tiered Storage also delivers higher network utilization and faster access to data - all through a unique ability to maintain far greater amounts of data online than were previously possible.

In addition, Intelligent Tiered Storage enables you to use a BlueArc Server as a virtual tape library that maintains online backup data in BlueArc archive storage. By making tape backup an independent process, you can achieve a near-zero backup window and restore failed systems almost instantaneously if a disaster recovery situation should occur.

BlueArc Storage Servers, with their wirespeed hardware-based storage architecture, have always been known for delivering groundbreaking speed and scalability to remove the bottlenecks that limit performance in other NAS systems. Now, with BlueArc’s Intelligent Tiered Storage solution, you can have all this speed and scalability while also simplifying the way you design, build and manage your enterprise storage infrastructure.