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No need to buy storage!

To meet your planned and unplanned storage capacity needs, and to lower your total cost of ownership, ac3 offers a series of flexible, cost effective, highly secure, highly available, scalable, and high-performance Storage services.

ac3 provides storage-as-a-service at three tiers:

  • Premium Storage ― no single point of failure within the physical storage array and associated connectivity.
  • Enterprise Storage ― a high level of redundancy, but not  to the same level as Premium Storage.
  • Capacity Storage ― where cost sensitivity is important, for long term data retention or when simple capacity is required with a minimal budget.

Typical storage requirements

 APPLICATION
  Premium
 Enterprise
 Capacity
 Data bases  (Oracle, SQL)
 ■
■
 ERP Systems (SAP, Oracle)
 ■

 Virtual Servers
 ■
■
 Email
■
■
 File/print
■
■
 Citrix farm
■


Storage characteristics
 Premium
 Enterprise
 Capacity
 Target Applications
 Mission Critical
 Business Important
 Long term data retention
 Availability
 >99.99%
 >99.9%
 >99.9%
 Relative Performance
 Highest
 High
 Medium
 Scheduled Outages
 < 2 hours/year
 < 10 hours/year
 < 10 hours/year
 Connectivity
 Fibre Channel (FC) only
 FC, SAS iSCSI & 1GE (NAS)
 available
 FC, SAS iSCSI & 1GE (NAS) available
 Data Replication and Snapshots
 Local Snapshot and remote
 Synchronisation
 Local Snapshot and remote
 Synchronisation
 None

Storage as a Service

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Storage services

ac3 can provide you with the following enhanced services:

  • Storage split allocation across two data centres
  • • Site-to-Site replication
  • • Snapshot-in-place replication
  • • Policy-based file migration services between Tier 2 and 3 storage