Storage Consolidation

Everytime you turn around, your users are asking for more disk, servers, and storage. It seems like your data set is growing at an exponential rate, with no end in sight. Many companies find themselves buying more servers without any real idea of where all the data is. Broadleaf Services will work with you to develop and implement a data management strategy that combines the best available solutions to meet your data storage and management objectives.

A storage consolidation solution can provide more manageable, cost effective, and better protection for your business-critical data. Broadleaf Services has solutions to suit a variety of business needs. We offer solutions for anything from a need for vast amounts of nearline storage to sophisticated storage projects requiring replication and snapshot capabilities built-in.

Call Broadleaf today to allow us to work with you to package the right solution for your data storage needs.

Technology Partners

Storage consolidation technology partners include:

EqualLogic
NetApp
Nexsan

EqualLogic Inc.

"Changing the way people experience storage." EqualLogic's affordable full-featured iSCSI SAN storage solutions offer enterprise-strength performance and reliability, combined with easy installation, management, and growth. Some of their differentiating features include built-in snapshot and replication capability, and SATA or SAS drive options.

EqualLogic's iSCSI SAN product has won just about every major award as "storage project of the year" in recent years. The EqualLogic SAN array is easy to administer and set up, and has built-in snapshot and replication capabilities. It scales with ease: there are no forklift upgrades, and it needs no downtime. The EqualLogic storage array offers excellent reliability and performance capability.

Network Appliance, Inc.

"The Evolution of Storage." Network Appliance's innovative data management solutions reduce cost, minimize risk, and adapt to change, simplifying storage, management, and protection of enterprise data. NetApps' flexible architecture offers the capability for NAS, iSCSI, and fibre SAN, all on one platform.

NetApp is recognized as a world leader in data storage solutions. Besides being a leader within NAS, they also are unique in combining the ability to connect via iSCSI or fibre channel SANs within the same storage system. This unique approach allows for one solution to handle three different sets of protocols. Competitors often require multiple solutions to satisfy multiple protocols. The benefit of the NetApp solution is one point of management for an entire line: NAS, iSCSI SAN, and fibre channel SAN in one solution, allowing the investment in the solution to be protected regardless of future demands and needs.

The NetApp solution creates a high-performance platform that is easy to manage, extremely scalable, and provides a clear path to recovery in the event of data loss. The NetApp solution provides a single OS across their product line along with industry-leading advanced software features creating a platform that will support today's requirements and unknown future requirements managed through a single pane of glass.

NexSan Technologies, Inc.

Nexsan's energy-efficient, secure, reliable, and cost-effective storage solutions, such as Assureon®, the first Secure Intelligent Archive Appliance, are purpose-built for storing compliance-related fixed content. Nexsan's award-winning disk storage products include the world's fastest SATA storage systems — SATABoy™, SATABlade™, and the extreme-density SATABeast™ disk vault.

Nexsan offers the best choice for dense storage arrays. They are the market leader in second-tier storage space. With their MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) technology, they offer a very green storage solution for your data center. Nexsan provides an excellent solution as a disk-to-disk target, archival target, or nearline storage target.

High-capacity SATABOY (up to 14 TB in 3U) and SATABEAST (up to 42 TB in only 4U)

Revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy-saving technology that greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs.
Full Enterprise class performance and reliability.
Dual-function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance.

Nexsan's Assureon line is a leader in archive solutions. Assureon® from Nexsan is a new breed of intelligent, disk-based archiving solutions— complete hardware/software systems that give users powerful and cost-effective choices for the protection, retention, and long term-care of their information assets.

Assureon secure storage architecture delivers a comprehensive array of intelligent features, including constant monitoring of file integrity, lifecycle management, file authentication, missing-file alerts, and support for remote replication, along with optional file-level encryption.

Simple to use, with instant file retrieval, Assureon provides secure protection and immediate access to archival information at a fraction of the cost of comparable legacy solutions. Assureon eliminates the need for outdated tape libraries and offline media while introducing an unmatched level of care and reliability around archived information that has simply been unavailable until now.