Storage is one critical aspect that is found in everybusiness and company, big or small. Without a good, reliable and efficientstorage solution, no business can excel or move forward.
Businesses these days don’t just need a storage solution,they need a solution that offers storage optimization and many other featuresas well. This is where Network Attached Storage or NAS storage comes in as it offers many features that support storage optimization.
Why Storage Optimization is Important?
Storage optimization enables users to fully utilize theirstorage and get the most out of their storage solution. Storage optimizationenables users to easily define performance and capacity tiers. Other than this, storage optimization also enables users to automate storage tiering, improvestorage space usage and reduce the overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) forthe NAS solution.
Enterprise NAS Storage Offers Data Deduplication
Data deduplication, as the name suggests, removes any duplicatecopies of data. In other words, users can remove redundant copies of data andreduce storage space usage which enables businesses to reduce their data footprint up to 100x.
Not only this but with data deduplication, businesses caneffectively also save costs as with more storage space saved, they would notneed to scale up and add more storage space. They can fully utilize their storage and would need to scale up a lot later than usual (if needed).
Enterprise NAS Storage Offers Automated Storage Tiering
Automated storage tiering enables Logical Unit Numbers orLUNs to span different tiers of storage and also move portions of LUNs betweentiers of storage in order to minimize storage costs and at the same time deliver consistent high performance.
Enterprise NAS Storage Offers 4 Tiers of Storage
Four tiers of storage mean that users are able to utilizeNVMe SSD, enterprise flash storage, HDDs and cloud storage. Users can use highspeed SSDs to set up SSD caching and run large petabyte workloads with ease.
Enterprise NAS Storage Offers Centralized Management
Centralized management enables users to easily manage allNAS system and NAS appliance nodes with the help of a centralized web-based,easy-to-use GUI. This makes data management really easy and less time consuming.
Note: While these features are subject to vendorofferings, if chosen a reliable vendor, such as StoneFly, most of thesefeatures come as standard in an enterprise NAS storage solution.
Conclusion
Storage optimization in any storage solution is veryimportant as without it many resources would either go to waste or won’t beused efficiently. All of the above-mentioned storage optimization features of enterprise NAS enable users to take full advantage of their storage solution andat the same time, it also helps them utilize storage space more efficiently and save costs as well.