Unified Storage – The Solution for all Storage Needs in SMBs
Owing to compliance needs, SMB’s are witnessing a large demand to secure and store vital information for a long period of time while also making certain that it stays accessible in time need. With the rising IT adoption, digitization and automation of services, and information security and back up being key reasons, it is most likely that the SMB segment will be one of the big drivers of information storage products.
How does unified storage help in SMBs?
Unified storage is fast gaining significance with the increased market adoption and SMBs use unified storage in their environment largely because of the flexibility and ease of use. One of the main benefits of unified storage system for a smaller SMB is that they need not have to invest in a block or NAS device or buy a bunch of different storage systems. In a SMB environment, while they still may have a dedicated device, the unified storage can be used, reconfigured, redeployed to suit the changing needs of a SMB.
The appeal of a unified storage product is in the underlying disks can be presented as multiple storage protocols, such that scores and scores of disk resources for each storage domain would not be required. Unified storage products can offer a lot of features beyond simple storage resources. This can include snapshots, cloud integration, and more. And all this can be done without a new console. With unified storage, there is a reduction in hardware and management requirements as it enables both block and file data to be stored in a single enterprise storage server. This can be retrieved by way of standards-based protocols for instance, CIFS and NFS for file data and SCSI or iSCSI for block data.
With SMBs having to ensure regulatory compliance, high data accessibility and fast disaster recovery, it has become necessary for the storage systems to be cost-efficient and adaptive so that the business information can be accessed, stored and managed with ease and simplicity. Unified storage solutions comes into use in such a scenario as they virtualize, consolidate and assist in NAS and SAN storage systems and address every challenge faced by an organization.
The data storage platform that is chosen needs to be able to sustain and analyze the environment and applications that it supports. A unified storage platform helps leverage application-optimized storage solutions that can make your SMB environment more flexible, agile and adaptive to different needs, without introducing additional complexity.
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