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Acopia ARX Storage Management Solutions
In today's business environments, file storage systems can be extremely complex and difficult for administrators to manage effectively.
The Challenges
- Complex Management - Management of multiple NAS devices is complex, inefficient and operationally intensive. Each device is managed on an individual basis and so sharing resources across the devices is problematic.
- User Downtime - User downtime and manual client reconfiguration is required for adds, moves, or changes to file storage devices
- Administrative Burden - Maintenance of a growing number of client file access points (mount points / drive mappings) is an administrative burden
- Multi-Vendor Integration Issues - Integration of multiple vendors into a unified storage environment is difficult in today's storage environment.
The Acopia Solution
The Acopia ARX allows enterprises to dramatically simplify storage management by virtualising the file storage environment, with the ARC acting as a file proxy which breaks the static mapping of users to physical file storage resources.
As a result, storage managers are able to non-disruptively add capacity, consolidate servers, and migrate file data across systems without affecting user access to data or requiring client reconfiguration. Acopia Global Presentation Namespace allows for an enterprise wide unified view of the file storage resources, reducing administrative burden and providing users with a more intuitive and consistent access to field data.
Acopia also helps to simplify the management of multi-vendor NAS environments by supporting single consistent file paths to a unified storage pool, across devices and vendors, allowing customers to seamlessly integrate multiple file system vendors.
The Benefits
- Less downtime - Eliminate client reconfigurations and user downtime as a result of adds, moves, and changes to file storage devices
- Better storage utilisation - Allows enterprises to greatly increase overall file storage resource utilization by managing a single logical pool of file storage rather than discrete elements
- Global Presentation Namespace - Enables the creation of a Global Presentation Namespace that spans distributed heterogeneous file storage (either local or enterprise-wide) environments
- Simplified User Access - Simplify user file access by logically organising data under either a single mount point or several consolidated mount points
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