Overland Storage Technology Brief Sample

Organizations with multiple locations face unique challenges when configuring and maintaining a network storage solution. The size, physical configuration, personnel, and data needs of each remote site can be vastly different from one another, thereby requiring the Storage Administrator to build the storage solution on a site-by-site basis. Any Storage Administrator can develop a NAS storage solution for a single site. But configuring and managing a distributed NAS solution – that is, a NAS solution that spans the enterprise to encompass all of the organization’s geographically-dispersed locations – takes more skill and a good deal more planning.

Some sites may require storage in larger capacities than others; physical constraints of many remote sites may necessitate the co-location of the storage device and the personnel in the office; the technical aptitude of the workforce at each location will determine how backups will be performed – and by whom; and the mobility of the workforce at each location must be considered, to ensure that all critical data in each location is considered in the overall storage solution.

Provisioning multiple sites with storage to meet the potentially disparate needs of each geographic location, while ensuring that the data from each location can be managed and protected consistently and reliably, includes several layers of complexity.....