Storage Area Network (SAN)

PEER 1's managed Storage Area Network (SAN) gives you a high performing, highly available and highly scalable storage environment for your mission-critical data. Your servers are connected through fibre switches directly connected to our leading edge EMC CLARiiON CX3 SAN. The SAN allows the customizable storage space within its fully redundant disk array controllers to be used amongst your servers. We only use best-in-breed management software to control all disk configurations.

Fibre Attached Storage (FAS)

PEER 1's Fibre Attached Storage (FAS) option provides you with a fast, high performing SAN at a lower cost price point. This storage solution is ideal for both fast growing businesses and established companies like SaaS, data warehousing or high transactional e-commerce environments that require limitless amounts of storage, scalability and performance capabilities. The system uses our SAN infrastructure based in our Atlanta GA, Miami FL and Fremont CA data centers, giving you diverse geographic options. It is also fully customizable depending on your business requirements and growth structure. FAS can be scaled into multi-terabyte capacities. It is fully supported by in-house PEER 1 storage support experts to ensure that you receive the best service possible.

Highlights

World-class EMC CLARiiON SAN infrastructure

Single or dual fibre HBA connections to SAN

Data path fail over options with redundant connections

High performing fibre channel drives

Low cost fibre channel drive options

Flexible RAID configurations

LUN management

High scalability to multi-terabyte levels

Expert managed storage team

About EMC CLARiiON Series

EMC is the worlds leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology solutions that enable clients of all sizes to transform the way they create value from their information.

The CLARiiON family is the market-share leader in the midrange storage market. With more than 15 years of experience in delivering proven midrange storage solutions, CLARiiON was the first storage solution to bring Fibre Channel systems to the midrange. CLARiiON's modular, high-availability UltraScale architecture has allowed EMC to bring the value of its networked storage solutions to small-to-medium businesses. Today, more than 25,000 businesses have come to depend on CLARiiON networked storage solutions to consolidate, protect, and manage many critical application environments.

The combination of CLARiiON's point-to-point hardware design, unique software features, and configuration best practices deliver the highest reliability and availability of all midrange storage platforms - measuring up to five 9s (99.999%) availability across all CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series installed systems.