Data storage systems (DSS)

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Thanks to modern data storage systems, the speed of information processing increases, as well as the search for necessary data in huge information and disk arrays.

You can always be sure that all information, regardless of volume, will be completely recorded and securely stored in the data storage system.

The consolidation method is most often used when creating a data storage network.

Such file and data storage systems present in the following versions:

Data storage system (SSD) by consolidating on storage devices (disk array) with block access and connection using a data storage network (Storage Area Network – SAN).

A SAN greatly simplifies database storage on a disk array, tape library, backup device, servers and file and data storage systems, etc. and allows solving a wide range of problems related to the organization of information storage at large and medium-sized enterprises. The following protocols are used here for the organization of network data storage systems:

• Fiber Channel (FC) is a special block protocol that is characterized by high performance.
• The issue is a SCSI packet transfer protocol over traditional IP networks that has the functional advantages of FC at an affordable price.
• A data storage system through consolidation of storage devices, with a direct connection to a data transmission network (Network Attached Storage – NAS).

With this method of organizing data storage systems, the following protocols are used by the server for storing files:

• NFS is a standard file access protocol for UNIX systems.
• CIFS is a standard protocol for Windows systems.
• A data storage system by consolidating on storage devices (for example, disk arrays, tape library and other data backup and storage systems) with a direct connection to a file storage server.

Do you need to reduce IT infrastructure costs, but increase storage capacity?

Is working with data out of control and searching for information takes a lot of time? Move away from hardware solutions and look towards  software-defined storage.

Investments in the expansion of SZD are a significant part of the costs of many companies. Software-defined storage is the most successful solution for organizing data storage, as well as managing storage services based on business-oriented policies.

Possible software-level features include caching, deduplication, replication, snapshots, backups, thin backups.

The central role of a software-defined storage network is played by hyperconverged systems, which provide a fault-tolerant storage environment for volumes of virtual machines in preconfigured systems based on mass-class server equipment, which simultaneously perform the functions of storage network nodes and computing resource virtualization nodes. Commonly used products for building software-defined storage networks include storage (Virtuozzo), vSAN (VMware), GlusterFS and Ceph (both Red Hat), Storage Spaces Direct (Microsoft).