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One of the UK’s largest utility companies, Yorkshire Water, has put in Affiniti’s new expanded storage environment – and the organisation will be able to improve availability of key applications and also address future data storage demands associated with both new and existing business applications to boost customer service.

It will also allow the organisation to keep up with capacity demands related to data protection and storage, as well as the increasing use of rich media. Unplanned outages will be significantly diminished and business continuity will be improved thanks to its simplified architecture and dual system for added fail-over protection. The storage area network is currently configured for a total raw capacity of 47 terabytes, with the ability to scale up to 900 terabytes.

Storage is increasingly becoming a thing not only in the enterprise world but also the SME markets, storage in terms of capacity, availbility and security. In the enterprise world, I keep meeting managers/CIO’s who’ve bought another SAN upgrade to discover by the time it’s been installed 70-90% of the solution is used up and it’s time to order another one. In the SME market, their issues tend to be more local, I need 1TB how should I provision it, do I need a server or an appliance, how do I back it up, and what about disk reslience?

As more and more of the world goes online, as more applications and more transactions are done through a web portal, we need more storage to log the transactions at the various stages.  If you take a simple credit card transaction, there’s the credit issuing bank, the card holder’s bank and the insurer as well as the vendor all needing logs of the transaction, scale that up to a on rich media platform storage requirements can easily transform on a monthly basis.

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