One of the leaders in the global storage market. The company is headquartered in the USA. NetApp manufactures the following types of storage systems:
AFF C190. The junior models, cost inexpensive, are optimal for small organizations. Resistant to failures and reliable in terms of virtual machines.
AFF A-Series. They are designed for continuous operation of mission-critical applications, virtualization systems and databases. Designed to take up as little space as possible and consume as little power as possible in the data center.
EF-Series. They’re based on SSDs only. They are optimal for business applications where transaction speed, performance and reliability are important.
FAS-Series. Hybrid storage systems that are suitable for large projects. At the same time they can be used for backup purposes.
Among the advantages of these storage systems are:
Thanks to the one-piece system architecture, upgrading and scaling is easy.
You can combine network storage based on a NetWare or Windows network operating system.
Less OS resources are consumed because backups are created faster.
The OS is fast and secure.
Extensive virtualization options for both servers and desktops.
Compatible with virtualization systems and combined with enterprise applications.
Support for iSCSI, HTTP, NFS, FC, FTP, CIFS.
ITGLOBAL.COM has received from the company the Gold level of partnership. The company has accumulated a lot of expertise in 12 years, implementing these storage systems for different customers. Also the cloud infrastructure of ITGLOBAL.COM is built on the NetApp storages.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Among the advantages of HPE solutions is an automated life cycle management system and increasing the availability of the array. The vendor promises that it has enough accumulated global data to prevent problems in advance. The good thing about storage is that you can pick up an easy-to-install solution that doesn’t require a lot of storage experience.
One of the best storage solutions from HPE is Primera, which is designed for mission-critical applications. It consumes resources sparingly, so performance always remains high. Also notable is HPE Nimble, which uses intelligent analysis features to monitor the health of the storage.
Dell
The vendor tries to offer suitable solutions for organizations of different sizes. When purchasing a solution, it is possible to schedule upgrades in advance, which reduces the overall cost of use. The solutions from this vendor are considered reliable and efficient. Also among the advantages are easy scalability and high speed of operation.
Here we can mention the SC series, which has both hybrid solutions and those built entirely on SSDs. Among their pluses are the modern architecture and high performance. There is also the PowerVault ME4 series, designed to simplify SAN and DAS networking.
