Overview

Focusing on your business needs.

"Our methodologies and vendor agnostic recommendations will help you in the latest storage technologies."

agilIT partners with the following manufacturers to fufill your storage needs. In addition to the hardware we can provide, please keep us in mind for your deployment and maintenance requirements.

HP StorageWorks

The HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array offers an easily deployed enterprise-class virtual storage array at an affordable price for the midsized customer. EVA virtualization is designed to improve capacity and reduce management complexities, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership compared to traditional arrays. For customers who are looking for a high performance, scalable, reliable and highly available storage solution, to run business-critical applications, that can be installed in just a few hours, the EVA4400 fits well.

StorageWorks is introducing a new generation of Modular Smart Arrays. HP makes available a family of products offering dedicated, low-cost block storage with a choice of host connect interfaces ideally suited for small application environments in SMBs, remote offices and as tier 2 or 3 storage for enterprise customers. This new generation of MSA is designed to help customers more effectively centralize storage to lower storage costs, increase storage administrator efficiency and reduce business downtime.

IBM System Storage and TotalStorage

Innovative technology, open standards, excellent performance, a broad portfolio of storage proven software, hardware and solutions offerings—all backed by IBM with its record of leadership—are just a few of the reasons why you should consider IBM storage offerings. Discover how IBM System Storage™ and TotalStorage® products help you meet business demands and protect your investments in technology.

IBM System Storage Disk systems provide virtualized, resilient, high-performance storage for mission critical workloads. The DS6800 is designed to deliver enterprise-class storage functionality for distributed and mainframe servers in a modular, space-saving, power-efficient, scalable package. The DS8000 helps you manage the total cost of ownership with Enterprise Choice warranties of 1-, 2-, 3- or 4-years on hardware and advanced functions

The IBM System Storage TS2230 Tape Drive Express Model has a storage capacity of up to 800 GB (with 2:1 compression) in conjunction with the IBM TotalStorage LTO Ultrium 400 GB data cartridge, which is double the capacity of the Ultrium 2™ technology. Along with its higher capacity, the performance of the TS2230 Tape Drive has more than doubled over the previous generation of half-high LTO drives in the market for a native data transfer rate of up to 60 MBps. The TS2230 Tape Drive provides an excellent alternative to slower and smaller capacity 1/4-inch, 4 mm and 8 mm DLT/SDLT tape drives.

Storage Area Network (SAN): The introduction of large capacity, high-availability storage systems offers new opportunities for cost reduction through storage consolidation and infrastructure and management simplification. Fibre Channel SANs were developed to provide efficient, high-performance access to many storage devices from many servers. The Cisco MDS 9124 Express for IBM System Storage is designed to serve as a foundation for infrastructure simplification.

Data Encryption: Increasing attention is being paid to the need to protect company data against theft or accidental loss, particularly data that contain personal or sensitive information of a company’s customers. The TS1120 now includes data encryption capabilities within the drive itself, helping to avoid the need for host-based encryption of data—and the concurrent drain on host performance—or the use of specialized encryption appliances. This capability is intended to provide customers with greater ability to protect information if tape cartridges are lost or stolen by supporting the storage of the data in an encrypted form.

Hitachi Data Systems: Storage Systems

Adaptable Modular Storage: The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage models 1000, 500, and 200 deliver the best price/performance, availability and best-in-class scalability in the modular storage market space! Leveraging many high-end features such as cache partitioning and RAID-6, the Adaptable Modular Storage systems are easily managed by Hitachi’s Storage Navigator Modular software. These systems are ideal for any small, midsized or larger businesses that requiring high-availability and high-performance solutions.

Features:

• Flexibility
• Availability
• High Performance
• Simplicity
• Security

NAS Solutions: Today’s Hitachi NAS solutions provide ultimate performance, scalability, reliability and value in a flexible platform designed to expand effortlessly to meet the growing requirements of every customer. The Hitachi portfolio of NAS solutions for enterprise, large and medium businesses simplifies the deployment and management of NAS and SAN while providing high return on investment (ROI).

Features:

• Simplified management and infrastructure
• Seamlessly scale up or scale out
• Resource optimization
• Accelerated productivity
• Improved data protection
• Reduced costs

Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100: a simple and reliable solution for SMBs, offers enterprise-class storage features with complete data protection solutions. Simple Modular Storage 100 is ideal for businesses looking for storage systems that are easy to manage, easy to grow, and easy to integrate with applications such as Microsoft&erg; Windows and others common to the SMB marketplace. The solution can be installed in minutes. No storage expertise is required. The platform enables simple installation and includes configuration wizards, easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) storage management software and powerful—yet simple—snapshot copy software deployment. Optional remote copy software is also available.

Sun Storage

The HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array offers an easily deployed enterprise-class virtual storage array at an affordable price for the midsized customer. EVA virtualization is designed to improve capacity and reduce management complexities, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership compared to traditional arrays. For customers who are looking for a high performance, scalable, reliable and highly available storage solution, to run business-critical applications, that can be installed in just a few hours, the EVA4400 fits well.

StorageWorks is introducing a new generation of Modular Smart Arrays. HP makes available a family of products offering dedicated, low-cost block storage with a choice of host connect interfaces ideally suited for small application environments in SMBs, remote offices and as tier 2 or 3 storage for enterprise customers. This new generation of MSA is designed to help customers more effectively centralize storage to lower storage costs, increase storage administrator efficiency and reduce business downtime.