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iMI Storage offers a powerful, best of breed platform that provides businesses a cost effective tiered disk system with capacity on demand and geographical data replication.
Features and Benefits
- Enterprise-grade appliance – rich feature set with high data access performance and availability
- Tiered storage options (Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze)
- Migration of data within tiers non-disruptively
- Capacity on demand – pay for what you use
- Point-in-time data snapshots and geographical data protection options
- All the features of an enterprise-grade appliance for a fraction of the cost
The iMI Storage platform provides businesses:
- A cost effective method to provide the “right fit” storage, based on business requirements per application
- The ability to use a rich set of enterprise-grade storage functionality, built to support the largest business-critical systems globally – at a fraction of the cost
- The ability to grow your storage as your applications grow
- Monthly charges - no upfront costs
Technical Overview
Platinum, Gold and Silver Storage Options
The iseek Platinum, Gold and Silver storage offerings are powered by Hitachi Data Systems Universal Storage Platform V (USPV). An integral component of the Hitachi Services Oriented Storage Solutions architecture, the USPV provides the foundation for matching application requirements to different classes of storage.
Services Oriented Storage Solutions enables IT organisations to present business customers with a menu of storage attributes (such as performance, availability, cost, and security) and charge for those services based on the customer’s selection. Services Oriented Storage Solutions can lower costs, extend lifetime value, and simplify management activities. The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V enables you to deploy applications within a new framework, fully leverage and add value to your current investments, and more closely align IT with your business objectives.
The iseek Platinum, Gold and Silver storage provides a choice of dual-pathed fabric connectivity.
We also utilise a redundant fibre ring connecting multiple USPV appliances, which provides options for cost effective offsite replication between iseek colocation facilities.
Bronze Storage
Cirrascale Systems uses a unique vertical cooling technology, which allows business to affordably save their “unstructured data” to large amounts of affordable storage. Data is accessed using a content file system through CIFS, NFS or ISCSI interfaces.
- Clustered, Network Attached Storage
- 12 hot-swap SATA II HDDs per blade
- Ultra drive reliability - ~2% AFR (>8% typical in the industry)
- Up to 4 blades per head node
- SATA 1TB and 2TB drives
- Storage blades provide the highest density, most energy-efficient storage product on the market
- 1.3PB in one rack
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