simpleSAN Benefits!  Storage Area Networks (SANs) consolidates and centralizes your storage investments / resources for enhanced data availability, scaleability and manageability. Each of these benefits provide you with the means to protect your data, and access to it, at some level. Since your data means money, downtime will cost you. Not only monetarily. But worse, how it could tarnish your reputation or prohibit you from performing your expected level of service your customers, clients & end-users require. (This recent study by Eagle Rock Alliance should shed some light on other costs you will incurred.)

Because we understand the high cost of downtime, simpleSAN brings a multitude of layers and levels of benefits to your organization's data storage / data protection needs that, together, ensures your mission critical data is always available, scaleable and manageable.

The first level is what SANs provides: Centralized storage management for near 100% storage utilization through pooling, consolidation, concatenation and storage virtualization. It can ease your data protection management because you can implement fault tolerance schemes (RAID, replication, etc.) and/or share a tape drive / tape library across your enterprise (either locally or remotely). SANs can provide "Hot, on-line" file system / physical hard drive growth with no physical limitations while still maintaining near constant availability to your data.

The second level is the ease of implementation of the iSCSI protocol and how quickly the deployment of these SAN benefits become. By using your existing Ethernet network infrastructure and MAN/WAN/Internet connection, you can quickly and cost effectively implement a business continuance plan which includes disaster recovery, data availability and data protection solutions.

Last, but not least, is simpleSAN's experience and expertise in the data storage industry. From design and implementation to service and support, simpleSAN understands and shares the importance of your lifeblood, your data.

Disaster Recovery  - Always have a duplicate copy of your data off-site in case of fire, flood, thief, etc...
Data Availability - Configure your storage area network for fault tolerance across heterogeneous storage manufacturers for constant data availability
Data Protection - Create a fast, reliable backup scheme in today's ever shrinking "backup window".
Manageability - Manage your storage as one resource to cut your total cost of ownership and realize a quick return of investment.
Remote Site Management - Take that "Manageability" and stretch it as far as your WAN or Internet connection reaches, while still managing your storage as one resource.

iSCSI, all the availability, scaleability and manageability benefits of fibre channel SANs at a fraction of the cost and without the intense learning curve.