Storage plays an increasingly critical role in business computing today. Most companies’ storage needs are constantly growing, and an increasing number of mission-critical business services now depend on secure, reliable, always-available, fast storage services.
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Standard Storage This is optimized to meet most standard business storage needs. It’s provisioned on the redundant arrays of fast SAS or Fiber disks. Standard Storage is ideal for server virtualization, operating system volumes, file servers, and for most Microsoft Exchange and SQL implementations. |
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Premium Storage This is designed for the most demanding mission critical applications. Powered by the fastest disk and array configurations, Premium Storage offers better performance for disk-intensive applications, additional levels of protection, and higher SLAs. |
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Archive Storage This is optimized for less demanding applications and static data storage. It’s provisioned on less expensive SATA disk arrays, or a third party provider such as Amazon. Archive Storage is our most cost-effective storage offering that is ideal for storing non-transactional data and backups. |
Pay for only what you use
Managing storage capacity tends to be complex, time-consuming, and costly. It’s almost impossible to accurately predict the needs of your business months and years in advance. Seasonal spikes in demand, unexpected growth, and new programs challenge even the most careful planning.
At External IT, we solve this problem, and put an end to paying for reserve capacity that you never, or rarely use. When you need extra storage capacity, you just start using it. It’s delivered on a pay-as-you-use basis. In this way we’re able to eliminate capital expenditures on storage, improve your service levels, and simplify previously tedious storage planning.
Leverage 3rd party cloud storage
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is one of the best examples of cloud storage that can tapped into seamlessly and inexpensively. Data stored at Amazon can be mapped to seamlessly appear and function as part of your centralized file system. Users access this data just like they would any other data, with permission-based access to their drives and folders. Incorporating third party storage is ideal for archiving data, backup, storing large amounts of content.
Optimized, consolidated storage resources
Minimize risk. Lower your overhead.
Challenge us to prove it.
Our cloud-based virtualized storage grid systems fundamentally change the economics of IT investment and productivity. Utilizing DataCore storage virtualization technologies, we consolidate and pool underutilized storage resources, so they can all be used and managed much more efficiently.
We build economical storage grids for our clients that deliver a flexible hosted file system with private, public and departmental storage.
With unlimited capacity, simplified storage administration, and integrated access control and permissions, the value our clients enjoy is noteworthy.
True to our comprehensive approach to providing unmatched cloud hosting services, we also offer an extensive range of backup and replication options to meet a full range of availability requirements up to four nines (99.99).
Proven cloud enabled storage grids
Every company needs to minimize risk and overhead costs. (Two objectives often at odds with each other.) This is true for even the most entrepreneurial, and successful, cash-laden firms. Fortunately, our on-demand managed storage solutions help you to address both issues by delivering flexible storage capabilities, at varying price and performance levels that can be mixed and matched to create your exact optimal solution. And you can adjust this mix of storage types on the fly, at any time.
