CES strongly recommends a hyper-convergence solution for organizations requiring high-volume data storage and access, as well as those required to adhear to strict government/industry regulations or compliance laws. In five years, if Microsoft discontinues support on one or more of its operating systems, many organizations will be forced to purchase expensive new hardware due to their current server-system acting as a production server or the system in place not being powerful enough for the addition of new virtual machines. In this scenario, CES proposes to install the newer operating system on a SSN (Server/Storage/Network) device. With this solution in place, multiple servers may be installed independently while the data locations remain the same. 'Hyper-Convergence' is an advanced system that combines the functions of servers, storage-devices and networking systems into a single server unit. This technology dramatically simplifies the local infrastructure stack, resulting in improved effeciency, higher reliability & data-integrity, and reduced long-term cost.

Servers + Storage + Network

   

SANs, or Storage Area Networks, are local-area networks designed specifically for high-volume data transfers and extensive sets of data storage pools. Data is undeniably the most important asset to any business in the modern Information Age. No matter how small or how vast your business is, you need access to vital data that is fast, efficient, consolidated, reliable, and scalable. On a routine basis, you may need to access your organization's key data sets in order to retrieve & update customer information, generate significant documents, view product inventory, or even to complete day-to-day transactions. SAN systems can provide for not only the regularly-growing storage needs of your organization, but also the need to access that information rapidly and precisely while maintaining integrity by keeping a seperate copy of your data in-sync with the set currently in use.