Highly Available, High Performance Storage
Adding bigger or faster hard drives to your server will only get you so far towards meeting the scalability, reliability or performance needs of your mission-critical applications. A Storage Area Network (SAN) from Planet Alpha is a complete solution, including Host Bus Adaptors (HBAs), dedicated network switches and an enterprise-class storage array. This solution will help scale your application to hundreds of terabytes without sacrificing performance or reliability.
Key Benefits of Planet Alpha's SAN
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Scalability
– A single SAN from Planet Alpha provides up to 84TB of storage which can be presented to your application as a single volume
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Performance
– High-performance applications, such as transaction processing databases, require I/O that is simply not available through local disk. By having access to special-purpose hardware -- designed and tuned specifically for serving data -- your hosted application will experience higher I/O, less latency and provide a better end-user experience
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Availability
– A SAN is often the foundation of high-availability architectures such as clustered databases, which protect against server failure by enabling multiple servers to share data. SANs from Planet Alpha can be configured with redundancy at every layer – from the HBAs and network switches, through the storage array itself – ensuring your application is always up and running.
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Expert Management
– Our certified storage experts setup, configure, monitor and maintain your SAN. In the event of a problem, our team works on the issue and upgrades it to priority support with our vendors as needed. We make sure you are kept informed during this process so you have peace of mind and know we're working for you to resolve the issue.
SAN Technical Specifications