Welcome to Dedicated Solutions

Availability and Security of Critical Business Data

Secure business-critical data and make sure that these are highly available for enterprise databases, Big Data, and analytics. DedicatedSolutions storage solutions have been developed to provide network storage for storage environments where customers have the need to store mission critical data, nearline storage in highly secure environments with high capacity and data availability.

Flexible Storage and Backup Services

DedicatedSolutions provides storage and backup services that can enhance the security, performance and availability of your data and associated with the economic benefits of the cloud. An essential storage based on SAN or NAS technology, DedicatedSolutions provides a customizable size, when you pay, thanks to different billing options only for what you use. It provides scalability from gigabytes to petabytes, performance, and availability, as well as different snapshot and replication options. DedicatedSolutions Backup Services offer a scheduled backup of real-time business data, data encryption, data recovery on demand as well as secure data vaulting.

IP Based (NAS) Cloud Storage

Our NAS based storage is a combination of various advanced hardware and software solutions for more flexible storage platform on the market. NAS uses file-based network protocols such as SMB/CIFS and NFS or block-based network protocols such as iSCSI and FCoE. NAS systems are therefore directly connected to the network and operate autonomously.

DedicatedSolutions NAS cloud storage deals with comprehensive system management, storage management, file copy services and provides centralized storage on disk arrays with both file-based and block-based with access via the general network. Our high-performance, redundant and failsafe NAS solutions provide an alternative to traditional Windows/Linux/Unix file servers.

What is Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Give your infrastructure the room it needs to grow without sacrificing speed. NAS is file-level computer data storage, connected to a computer network, providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients. NAS is optimized file storage, specially designed to deliver reliability and performance for your environment.

DedicatedSolutions NAS Features

Provide comprehensive data access and file sharing
Gain flexibility to support UNIX and Windows clients
Strength data protection and security
Streamline data access and file sharing across a heterogeneous client and server environment
Increase availability with efficient data replication and recovery options
Secure data with user authentication and file locking
Consolidate server and storage infrastructure
Share files across Winodws, Linux and UNIX environments
Simplify data storage and infrastructure management

RECOMMENDED APPLICATIONS OF NAS

Virtualization Data Assets
Data Migration to Public and Private Clouds
Tiered File System
Synchronous Disaster Recovery
Storage with Deduplication
Archiving and Long-Term File Retention
Rich Media Repositories
Web Server Content Share

Redundant NAS

The advantages of our NAS devices are varied. First, a NAS allows you to centralize the storage of data in one device accessible to all nodes of the network with highly specialized performance. Our NAS architecture ensures a better management of data security and allows the eventual removal and addition of hot disks (hot swap), without the need to turn off the unit. NAS is optimized for file storage, so if you want to backup all the data stored on your NAS (storing the same data in more than one place), then Redundant NAS architecture is the perfect solution for you. A redundant NAS architecture adds a fail-safe measure in case of failure of the NAS storage device.

A Redundant NAS architecture adds a second, failover storage server that contains a hot copy of your data. Both servers will be configured in the same local network with a shared IP address. Their adaptability means they can be effortlessly configured for
high speed performance and maximum capacity utilization, all with high availability. You can use these typical configurations as excellent starting points for your own solution, and benefit from the advanced data protection and reliability.

What is Redundant NAS?

A Redundant NAS architecture adds a second, failover storage server that contains a hot copy of your data. Both servers will be con?gured in the same local network with a shared IP address

DedicatedSolutions NAS Features

Provide comprehensive data access and file sharing
Gain flexibility to support UNIX and Windows clients
Strength data protection and security
Streamline data access and file sharing across a heterogeneous client and server environment
Increase availability with efficient data replication and recovery options
Secure data with user authentication and file locking
Consolidate server and storage infrastructure
Share files across Winodws, Linux and UNIX environments
Simplify data storage and infrastructure management

RECOMMENDED APPLICATIONS OF REDUNDANT NAS

Bottom-layer virtualization
Data Encryption
Integrated Snapshots and Replication
Synchronous Disaster Recovery
Storage with Deduplication
Archiving and Long-Term File Retention
Rich Media Repositories
Web Server Content Share

Storage Area Network (SAN)

Fast & reliable block storage in the cloud

How can we manage the rapidly growing volumes of data as well as save and how can you easily control and access it? Here the DedicatedSolutions’s SAN storage comes into play. The storage solution offers agility, which means that you need to buy excess capacity, but can expand your storage environment as needed. As a fully managed solution, our SAN storage solution provides the clock Storage for companies without the need for additional hardware. SAN uses snapshots and replication features to protect against physical damage or disasters. Your data is stored in our data center standard that meet the industry-proven, multi-tenant security models and thus provide more reliability for your data.

DEDICATEDSOLUTIONS SAN FEATURES

Better disk Utilizaion
Good DR solution for multiple applications
Better availability for your applications
Scalability, enhanced feature and raw performance
SAN to SAN replication, volume-level and LUN-level snapshots and true multi-protocol capabilities
Multiple Server Access to shared storage
Simplified management to enterprise data centers
High available, redundant controller design
Reduce connection latency and maximize bandwidth
IP storage gateway

RECOMMENDED APPLICATIONS OF SAN

Database (MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Media Libraries
Backup Archives
High Usage File Servers
E-mail Servers
Remote vaulting and mirroring
Heterogeneous platform support
Storage-level replication
Storage-level backups

Storage Area Network (SAN) DR/Replication Redundancy

A Storage Area Network (SAN) DR/Replication Redundancy architecture adds a second, failover storage server that contains a hot copy of your data.

A Storage Area Network (SAN) provides a redundant array of disks that are seen as a local volume by the web or
database servers that you attach to it. Like a NAS architecture, It provides unified data. But a SAN can be even
faster for I/O intensive storage and database hosting because it’s seen as a local volume.

FC vs. ISCSI vs. NFS

Whether you're a Windows, Linux, VMware vSphere or server user, you almost certainly need access to shared storage. The comprehensive functions can be used with storage protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NFS.

Features	Fibre Channel (FC) SAN	iSCSI SAN	NFS SAN
Protocol	Block-based storage protocols	Block-based storage protocolsv	Similar to Server Message Block protocol
Hardware	Uses fiber optic cables instead of Ethernet cables.	No additional hardware is required to configure SAN.	No additional hardware is required to configure SAN.
Performance	High, due to no data traffic interfering with storage traffic	Medium, your storage is constrained by multiple devices	Low, as it is risky if you’re using the same network for both data traffic and storage traffic
Cost to Setup	Medium	Medium	Low
Troubleshooting	Comparatively hard to troubleshoot, and requires a dedicated full-time SAN admin.	Can be troubleshot with generic network tools such as Wireshark.	Can be troubleshot with generic network tools such as Wireshark.
Roads	The most expensive type of storage.	Cheaper than FC	The Cheapest
Overhead Cost	Minimal overhead	Overhead costs are high. Maximum when using the software initiator. Under overheads mean CPU load of the host.	Overhead average. More than FC, less than iSCSI.
Flexibility	High	High	High
Security	Better security as compared to ISCSI and NFS	Possible security issues as there are no built-in encryption.	Same issues as ISCSI as everything is transferred in clear text.
Latency	Less latency as compared to ISCSI and NFS.	TCP protocol may introduce latency.	TCP protocol may introduce latency.
Load Balancing	FC supports multipath and has a better load distribution than NFS.	ISCSI supports multipath and has a better load distribution than NFS. NFS does not have load balancing.	You can use the bond for high availability, but not for balancing.