NCS Cataolg of IT Services

Enterprise Storage Services

Overview
NCS offers an enterprise tiered storage model for servers hosting enterprise applications.  Within our production data centers, NCS hosts high-capacity, networked storage systems, which provide local data protection, simplified scalability, system monitoring, and remote data mirroring for disaster recovery.  In this model, a host writes to a high-performance, cache-based, storage array, which in turn manages and protects the host’s data.

Enterprise Storage also provides multiple options for creating local and remote copies of data to further refine RPO and RTO requirements for enterprise applications.  Regular local snapshots can be provided on the backend storage array for any created volume.  These snapshots can be created on a regular basis for accidental file deletion or corruption, or used as an added feature to provide a rollback copy in the case of a system upgrade or patch.

Services Provided

Enterprise Storage Services includes the following:

• Server access to networked storage via SAN or NAS
• SAN is recommended for systems requiring the highest performance

• NAS is recommended for systems requiring maximum flexibility or read/write access to multiple servers at once

• Data protection via multiple RAID implementations on multiple speeds and types of disk
• Remote data protection via asynchronous replication based upon 15 minute time increments (primary data copy located in the Laurel Data Center, and remote data located in the Virginia Data Center)
• Data snapshot and cloning capabilities

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