Why choose a NearLine storage solution?
The answer in a nutshell: COST. Most businesses today already have a RAID appliance that stores all company data online; making it fast, instantly accessible and inefficient. Studies have shown that only 30% or less of all data on company networks are accessed on a regular basis, leaving the remaining 70% of information to waste valuable resources. Instead of using up space on expensive RAID arrays and having to shell out more money for expanding your storage when you finally run out, a more cost-effective solution is to migrate old data to an Optical NearLine storage system. Integration of a Nearline Optical storage solutions to your company network are seamless; users will not be able to tell the difference whether their information is NearLine or online. Using applications from our preferred list of Independent Software Vendors, IT Managers can setup migration protocols through storage management software, to move data back and forth between online and NearLine status at will, signi