SunGard undertakes 24/7 round the clock management of EMC, HP, IBM and Sun StorageTek’s storage arrays hosted within its data centres, providing a Dedicated Managed Storage service to customers wanting to outsource the storage component of their IT environment.
The service comprises administering, monitoring, configuring, maintaining, and supporting of Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Storage Area Network (SAN) and any associated Cisco storage network fabric.
Hardware components are dedicated to each customer, ensuring each customer’s data is secure and limited to the array being managed.
When subscribed alongside Managed OS, Dedicated Managed Storage provides for managing a customer’s entire host and storage estate. When subscribed without Managed OS, SunGard’s demarcation point is at the storage network switching level.
2. What is SunGard’s Managed Tiered Storage Solution? SunGard’s fully Managed Tiered Storage Solution is a shared storage service delivered on enterprise-class infrastructure across multiple UK Technology Centres.
3. What does SunGard’s Cloud-based IaaS Solution Deliver? The service delivers managed storage, which allows for enterprise performance and availability, yet still achieves the physical and virtual security standards required by today’s enterprise.
4. Managed Tiered Storage (TC3 & LTC) SunGard Tier 1 – Fibre Channel Tier 2 – SATA MS Customer SunGard Storage Fabric Storage Virtualisation SunGard Replication MS Customer TC3 LTC Customer Server Customer Server / Shared Subscription SunGard Storage Fabric Storage Virtualisation Tier 1 – Fibre Channel Tier 2 – SATA
Describe what the SunGard managed tiered storage offering is and what it delivers.
Describe the service as the slide builds SunGard’s fully managed tiered storage service offering is a shared service delivered on enterprise virtualised infrastructure across multiple UK data centres . Or in simpler terms ‘Storage which uses Virtualisation technologies to allow data to be flexibly provided from a pool of storage hardware resources’.
Tiered Storage Highly Available and High Performance Hosted in Secure manner Geared towards the requirements of the enterprise
Two options single primary site or primary site storage replicated to a secondary site for DR Infrastructure is exactly the same in both.
Time to implement SG are providing the admin function & reporting
Reduced risk of downtime Money – don’t forget depreciation and maintenance
Integrity – Sinlge site for primary storage with replicated option to secondary site for DR
Explain patriot act Explain MS timeline – equivalent hosted solution would take around 60 working days to deliver.