Storage Area Network (SAN) Solutions

A Storage Area Network, or SAN, can provide firms with large or growing data storage require­ments with a more effi­cient means of storing and retrieving data compared to tradi­tional data storage technologies.

Once only an economic and tech­nical option for large, enter­prise firms, SAN solu­tions now make sense for many small and midsized businesses.

Welsh Consulting can design, implement and support systems to meet your data storage, data retrieval, disaster recovery and business conti­nuity requirements.

Virtu­al­ization

Virtu­al­ization allows one computer to handle the workload of several computers simul­ta­ne­ously. This is accom­plished by effi­ciently sharing the resources available on a single physical host computer among multiple virtual guest “computers.” As an example, a network that histor­i­cally required separate physical machines for email, a SQL database, web hosting, appli­ca­tions, file sharing and printing, can now be consol­i­dated into two physical servers. This can signif­i­cantly reduce server hardware requirements.

Benefits of virtu­al­ization include:

• Less capital expense and lower Total Cost of Ownership due to more effi­cient use of hardware resources
• Energy savings from decreased power and cooling require­ments
  Improved ease of management and provisioning
• Scal­a­bility
• High avail­ability and disaster recovery capabilities