With limited IT budgets, many state and local government agencies have to compromise on their storage deployments for low total cost of ownership (TCO). This often results in a storage environment with low utilization, poor protection, and complicated management. In the long term, wasted resources defeat the original purpose of controlling cost. Infortrend bases its storage solutions on a flexible, manageable and highly-available platform to ensure real cost-savings with IT efficiency. With Infortrend solutions, government organizations can best leverage their information assets to meet growing data demands.

Benefits

Infortrend solutions allow government organizations to:
  1. Achieve necessary capacity and performance through as-needed expansion
  2. Consolidate storage for easy management, increase allocation flexibility and maximize utilization
  3. Minimize service disruptions caused by natural disasters or human errors
  4. Reduce costs to meet data retention needs
  5. Accommodate explosive data growth without forklift upgrades
  6. Improve datacenter energy efficiency to contribute to green initiatives

Solutions

Infortrend solutions provide:
  1. Storage virtualization and thin provisioning. Consolidated storage capacity is utilized in the most efficient way and can be scaled on-demand without disrupting online applications.
  2. Centralized management platform. Various advanced functions can help IT managers easily configure, monitor and maintain multiple storage systems through a user-friendly GUI.
  3. Horizontal and vertical scalability. To increase system capacity and performance, users can connect storage systems to expansion enclosures or add additional systems to the existing storage pool.
  4. Storage-based snapshot and remote replication. Differential and full copies can be used for quick data recovery in the event of a storage system malfunction.
  5. Power-saving design. Technologies such as intelligent multi-level drive spin-down, 80 PLUS-certified power supplies and dynamic cooling mechanism are integrated to deliver best-of-class energy efficiency.
  6. Flexible drive choices. By intermixing high-performance and large-capacity drives, users can deploy storage tiers to cost-effectively support information with different levels of importance.