A Storage Area Network (SAN) from Macquarie Managed Hosting allows you to:

• Lower Storage Infrastructure expenditure - No large capex investment required
• Access high-end SAN technology - Only pay for what you use for your mission critical database or transaction processing online applications
• Lower risk of downtime - Options for multiple levels of redundancy
• Access industry leading SAN technology NOW - freeing up your precious IT resources
• 24 x 7 support - Increased peace-of-mind - Our engineering support ensures critical events are detected, and that updates and patches are applied in a timely manner
• Have complete scalability and flexibility - Grow your storage requirements when you need to

Compliance and governance continues to drive an ever-expanding requirement for business to discover ways to increase access to file storage whilst also reducing the total cost of storage.

Mission critical business applications demand access to high availability, high performance storage infrastructures to increase an online environment’s performance and availability.

Our Managed SAN storage service, is monitored 24x7, and is able to deliver a solution that addresses both these needs by providing the ability to access storage for a simple monthly service fee based on usage.

Key uses for Managed SAN storage service include high-availability server clustering, file storage, and email archiving storage.

SAN (Storage Area Network) - Storage on Demand Services

The Storage Area Network allows for a centrally managed, scalable, high availability and high performance data storage on demand infrastructure for critical performance applications.

The cost-effective high-availability on-demand data storage network enables:

• Highly scalable, high availability, fibre linked access to storage on demand
• File sharing across networks
• Multiple servers to access same files simultaneously via cluster services
• Shares of information across servers and remote sites
• Consolidation of multiple file-sharing servers

What differentiates our SAN solution

• Industry leading Vendor solution with Multiple Levels of Service available
• Proven Security Certifications & Specialist Engineering Skills
• Complete maintenance and 24 x 7 support with a Dedicated solution design team, and Project Manager

Storage Area Network Options

SAN Disk Options

• File Storage Disc - Ideal for storing of files that are less frequently accessed or where fast disk access is not required
• Transaction Disc - Ideal for transaction based data storage – accessing data/files for fast disk access is mandatory

SAN Redundancy Options

• Default Service
• Single Path Redundancy
• Multi Path Redundancy

SAN Solution Summary

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

The service is provided as an add-on to the managed dedicated server service, based in the highly accredited Macquarie Telecom data centre. Data centre certifications include ISO 27001, DSD Gateway Certified to Highly Protected, Microsoft Gold Certified, Redhat Advanced Hosting Partner, HP Business Partner, and other associated vendor certifications.

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