Imagine running a business where data storage is distributed across 20 geographically separated sites. How do you efficiently manage those sites? What happens when one site runs out of storage capacity? What if one site were hit with a disaster or flood? 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?
If these questions give you the impression that multi-site storage management across sites can be a headache, you are right. What can you do to ease this management burden?
For starters, you can use cloud storage in place of a traditional siloed storage infrastructure. Here are some of the key benefits cloud storage can deliver to simplify your multi-site infrastructure:
1) Accessibility to an unlimited pool of storage from each site that grows on demand– meaning never having to worry about running out of capacity
2) A centralized disaster site with unlimited bandwidth and multi-datacenter redundancy, network optimization and data security — a very complex undertaking to build out yourself
3) A centralized portal that can monitor and proactively alert you on the health status of each site — without an onsite presence
How can cloud storage do this? Via software or hardware hybrid storage appliances like CloudArray, that provides optimized data access from each site combined with a central point of management. What’s more, 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. Are there even more benefits? Stay tuned to learn more in Part II of this series.
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