Data redundancy is meant to improve network uptime, andnothing can do it better than NAS storage. A network without redundancy can threaten your business if a system fails, leading to downtime and lost productivity.
By using clustered NAS storage, you can provide the requireddata redundancy and high availability for your business’s critical data at all times – especially during the most stressful of times – such as a local disaster – and also help your corporation save money.
How can clustered NAS storage help in improving your businesses’ uptime
Highly Fault-tolerant:Fault tolerance and high availability of data are crucial aspects of today's
businesses and cannot be ignored. It can be harrowing and costly if your data becomes
unavailable while customers, employees, and business partners try to access vital content/data. Modern network attached storage is highly fault-tolerant and makes sure that all your data stays safe, free from corruption, and available at all times.
No need forspecialized administration: Network-attached storage systems have becomeincreasingly popular among businesses. Because enterprise NAS systems run on their own operating system, there's no need for technical storage administration. This reduces costs and time for maintenance which further reduces downtime.
Load balancing andfailover: A clustered NAS solution with Load-balancing and Failover, like StoneFly’s super scale-outNAS storage solutions, will ensure that even if one member in the cluster fails, the other nodes will take over seamlessly, and your data will be fully
available.
Reliable RAIDredundancy:
The best NAS systems typically run RAID (redundant array ofindependent disks) software. This helps to ensure data integrity. In addition, the data is spread across multiple nodes, making it resilient to server failure. That way, NAS storage increases reliability and enables failover to other devices if any problem occurs.
Summary
NAS storage gives your data center the ability to totolerate multiple failures. It is a redundant system that can handle the failure of one or more components without loss of operational capacity.
NAS storage can use alternate resources or capabilities thathave been designed into them like cloud connect, Anti-virus and anti-ransomware, Immutable delta-based snapshots, Write-Once Read-Many (WORM) volumes, Automated storage tiering, Deduplication, AES 256-bit encryption, Sync/async multi-appliance/multi-site replication, ability to backup to DR appliances, and much more. So, why suffer from downtime waiting for faulty hardware to get repaired?
Take action now and boost up your network’s uptime with clustered NAS solutions.