• Need to provide high availability infrastructures to support mission critical business and government online environments
• Need high-performance storage devices to enable high availability clustering and transaction processing, to ultimately increase an online environment’s performance and availability.
• Need to store information for longer periods of time for compliance and governance
• Need to discover ways to increase access to file storage whilst also reducing the total cost of storage.

The Macquarie Telecom Hosted Managed SAN storage service is able to deliver a solution that addresses these needs by providing the ability to tap into storage for a simple monthly service fee based on usage, ensuring a cost effective approach to storage capacity and scalability.

The Macquarie Telecom Hosted Managed SAN storage service is a completely monitored and managed hosted storage service, providing access to four differing levels of storage to best meet your performance, redundancy, and budget requirements for storage.

Key uses for the Macquarie Telecom Managed SAN storage service include:

• high-availability server clustering
• website content hosting
• virtualisation and file storage.

The Macquarie Telecom Hosted Managed SAN storage service is based on industry leading SAN hardware and software technology and includes all hardware, hardware maintenance, software licensing, 24x7 monitoring, management, & support – backed by a service level guarantee.

The service is provided as an add-on to the managed dedicated or Virtual service, based in the highly accredited Macquarie Telecom Intellicentre.  Certifications include AS/NZ7799, DSD Gateway Certified to Highly Protected, Microsoft Gold Certified, Redhat Advanced Hosting Partner, HP Business Partner, and other associated vendor certifications.

The Managed SAN Storage service includes the following key features:

• Implementation - Specialist presales design work, Specialist project management
• Data centre facilities - highly accredited & certified, 24x7 onsite operations centre
• Hardware - Provision & maintenance, 24x7 predictive monitoring & support, Based on EMC Clarion technology
• Server Connectivity - Fibre connection from SAN direct to server, Up to 4Gbps fibre channel end-to-end
• Disk Performance Targets - Based on Disk Type & RAID Configuration
• Redundancy Options - Single fibre, single controller, Single fibre, dual controller, Dual fibre, dual controller
• Service Level Guarantees

Contact us for more information on Managed Shared Storage Area Network solutions