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News Release from: NCE Computer Group (Europe) | Subject: Dedicated SAN solutions
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 December 2003
High availability RAID store costs under
GBP10,000
Provider of integrated data storage solutions has developed a range of dedicated SAN solutions, starting at 1 TB of high availability RAID storage for under GBP 10,000.
NCE Computer Group, the provider of integrated data storage solutions, service and support, has developed a range of dedicated SAN solutions, starting at 1 TB of high availability RAID storage for under GBP 10,000, in order to meet the continued growth in the SAN marketplace and to extend its solutions portfolio for existing customers With solutions based on industry standard iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols and storage appliances using ATA, SATA, SCSI and Fibre Channel, NCE can now provide a SAN solution for any environment
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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As the role of the SAN moves to centre-stage, issues including the management of the SAN infrastructure have become as important as the storage technology itself.
Organisations need to employ relevant strategies to ensure effective and reliable data management.
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NCE's SAN offering brings maximum scalability for minimum cost to the market, whilst providing a state-of-the-art storage consolidation solution that is platform and operating system independent.
With disaster recovery, backup, high availability, data migration, cross-vendor data movement including replication and mirroring, full support for end-to-end redundancy and no-single-point-of-failure configurations, NCE's SAN technology simplifies data management and maximises capacity utilisation for its customers.
"Centralising and virtualising storage by using management appliances and software ensures more efficient storage usage and improved administrative productivity.
Virtualisation will allow large scalable pools of storage to be provisioned out to servers at block level with far less complexity than many other SAN alternatives.
An added benefit is the availability of replication, mirroring and data snap-shot technologies providing the user with maximum resilience and availability of mission critical data," said John Greenwood, product sales manager for NCE.
The Data Storage Solutions Team based at NCE's European Headquarters in Calne, Wiltshire specialises in designing and providing bespoke storage solutions to a range of sites that are experiencing, or have experienced data storage issues.
In conjunction with its Service Division, offering European support and repair facilities, NCE can offer an end-to-end package providing a complete data storage solution.
"Our focus is specifically on data storage and by concentrating on this environment we can save our customers time and money by advising them on the numerous applications and technologies that are appropriate to their organisation's storage infrastructure.
Our storage consultants can help design, install and implement the correct data storage solutions for each organisation," continued Greenwood.
NCE has forged strong partnerships with the leading storage manufacturers enabling it to develop a wide range of complimentary services including in-house repair, field service capabilities, helpdesk and management of warranty parts.
As the SAN marketplace continues to grow, NCE has developed its services to provide the industry with a broad solution that meets its ever-changing requirements.
- ends - About NCE Computer Group (Europe) - founded in 1995, NCE is a service and products sales company specialising in data storage products.
NCE in Europe is a subsidiary of NCE Computer Group of San Diego, California, USA, and employs over 125 staff worldwide.
NCE is committed to quality and operates to a fully documented ISO9002 quality system.
From its European headquarters in Wiltshire, UK, NCE provides the complete solution - a range of services including helpdesk, depot repair, field service and parts logistics, as well housing its high-end solutions team.
NCE's strategic relationships with leading hardware and software manufacturers enables its product sales division to supply the latest IT and software developments in a customer specific designed storage solution.
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