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MRK’s Storage Management provides customers with the
knowledge to determine your infrastructure and operational
readiness of adopting either a Network Attached Storage
(NAS) or a Storage Area Network (SAN) type of storage
architecture. The terms “NAS” and “SAN” refer to a pooling
of storage resources in order to provide better availability,
scalability, performance and data protection. MRK can
provide the customer a preliminary design readiness
review in the form of an Enterprise Data Storage Assessment
Workshop at the customer location.
MRK has recognized this problem and focuses on a "core"
set of service offerings that allow us to maintain focus
and deliver the expertise that you (our client) demand.
Our focus is centered on the following core offerings:
- NAS & SAN Topologies
- Qualifying NAS and SAN Partners
- Solving Growth Problems and Storage Management
- Preparing an Imminent RFP
MRK's experience and knowledge in Storage Management
(including testing, analysis, design, implementation
and documentation) allow enterprises to start implementing
a solid foundation today to support the future networked
environment.
The storage market is going through
a rapid period of change. The terms of how storage is
viewed in relation to the rest of a company's network
is evolving. Technology, such as Fibre Channel, allows
companies to provide a greater degree of connectivity
in terms of both the number of devices that may be connected
and the distances between them.
Today, implementing a Storage Area
Network (SAN) solution provides a link between multiple
servers and their required storage. Network administrators
are able to scale either the storage or server processing
power as requirements demand. This ability reduces the
overall cost and maintenance of your company's disk
storage. Although Storage Area Networks are a relatively
new concept, MRK is able to provide the expertise in
implementing a SAN today. By partnering with leaders
in the industry, such as Hitachi Data Systems,
MRK is poised to provide companies with a stable, high
availability storage solution including top-level support
through its partners.
NAS is an alternative solution for
consolidating data from multiple sources and centralizing
it for improved manageability and performance. NAS relies
on a dedicated appliance to store and serve data. It
attaches directly to the network, and offers enterprise-level
scalability and ease of data management.
MRK has partnered with Network
Appliance, Inc. to implement NAS solutions, a relatively
new, yet proven technology. MRK's NAS solutions offer
clients a cost-effective method to improve performance,
reliability and manageability of data.
File System Management provides high
performance, quick recovery, and standard compliant
utility. It can augment high availability, increased
bandwidth and up-to-date, reliable, structural integrity.
While the system is active, Volume
Management provides easy-to-use online disk management.
This technology also provides the tools you need to
improve performance and ensure data availability and
integrity through disk usage analysis, RAID techniques
and dynamic disk storage configuration.
Clustering is a software solution
that permits you to combine a number of individual network
servers into a cluster, thereby providing users with
virtually uninterrupted access to their critical network
resources such as data, applications, server licenses,
and other services. If one network server (cluster node)
in the cluster happens to fail, another will automatically
take over the resources and services it provided.
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