DAMstor Provides Unique Scalability, Capacity Utilization Value.SanOne, an Alanco Technologies company and a Storage Area Network (SAN) provider specializing in enterprise: storage solutions, service, and training, has unveiled, its DAMstor line of storage-on-demand systems. DAMstor systems represent a true technology convergence of the latest connectivity, storage device, and virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. advances. They start as low as 500GB and can scale up to tens of terabytes, for an investment as low as five cents per megabyte One million bytes, or more precisely 1,048,576 bytes. Also MB, Mbyte and M-byte. See mega and space/time. (unit) megabyte - (MB, colloquially "meg") 2^20 = 1,048,576 bytes = 1024 kilobytes. 1024 megabytes are one gigabyte. . More importantly, SanOne's Dynamic Allocation Manager (DAM) storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. software, embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. in the DAMstor configurations, potentially doubles effective capacity utilization Capacity Utilization measures the rate at which a firm makes use of their capital productive capacities, such as factories and machinery. Capacity Utilization generally rises when the economy is healthy and falls when demand softens. making enterprise storage even more cost-effective. DAM, available free-standing or embedded in DAMstor, increases storage quality-of-service by allowing administrators to add and assign disk capacity without rebooting or disrupting application servers as storage space is added or moved among hosts. DAM virtual disk assignments also do not require expensive, error-prone hardware reconfigurations, while minimizing fragmentation issues with up to 90 percent utilization of storage assets. DAMstor's flexible configurability and ease of implementation make it attractive to the ASP and co-locator marketplace, as well as medium and large companies looking to consolidate fragmented or proprietary storage assets. They are available for immediate delivery. |
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