What are your data storage solutions, can we learn?
As 4S Information Technologies, we provide sales, service and installation of proven and commonly used data storage solutions of various big manufacturers. We cooperate with several manufacturers based on project-based and customer needs. In addition to the projects in which entire solution is provided by the products of same manufacturer; we have also other solutions applied and working properly in which software and storage products from multiple manufacturers. We supply a wide range of solution product starting from Elementary Level NAS systems to corporate level petabyte level SAN architecture systems. We have also disc systems, virtual disc library, tape-based and data storage product-integrated back-up solutions and data storage virtualization service.
Why are data storage solutions so important for a company, what kind of advantages they provide for the companies?
Data storage is an obligation for the companies anymore. Growth speed of data makes data storage in internal server discs impossible. We have customers whose current data storage systems cause performance concern and who work with very large data. These data must not be lost, must be stored without damaging their structure and must be accessible all required times. Therefore, data storage systems are the most important part of organization information systems infrastructure. In case that all stored data is lost, compensation of the hardware is not possible. In order to define a suitable data storage solution, requirements should be properly identified. It is the main reason that we use product ranges from different manufacturers in our solution as 4S Information Technologies. Although purpose of data storage units is similar, they contain very different technical structures. We give priority to determine correct requirements during manufacturing stage in order to define the most suitable data storage solution for an organization or institution. It will be a very wrong approach to say B product of A producer is the suitable product for our customer C. Product and solutions vary based on different requirements
Security is one of the most important criterias in terms of data storage aspect for the companies. How much safe are your solutions, how do you provide security of data you store?
All data storage products that we provide as service and we install are the products which comply with certain standards by their internal structures and support all protocols widely accepted in the sector. As 4S Information Technologies, first of all we determine the most proper product that can serve most advantage for our customer and then we make configuration and installation. The solutions we provide consist of environments where security is very strict; data is backed-up and protected against disc failures and unauthorised access. In other words, data storage systems we install ensure data security eventhough our customers do not want. In case that there is a fault possibility from a single point, we propose necessary recommendations to our customers and make the system restructured so as not to lose data. We are very proud of that no data loss has occurred in the disc system that we proposed in the projects and due to our support services provided by our company having 16 years experience in the sector.
What are the newest trends in data storage?
New trend in data storage sector is virtualization as in desktop sector. As 4S Information Technologies, we have been working in some data storage virtualization projects. Our completed projects and customer satisfaction prove that we on the correct way. The customers are attracted by “trademark independency” which is the biggest benefit of virtualization infrastructure in data storage systems. Another trens is performing back-up operations in disc-based systems instead of tape units. Data storage is safer and easier in such systems.
Many institutions and organizations take back-up in tape cartridges, however data cannot be read from these cartridges or cannot be controlled. Access is problematic to these back-ups when needed due to improper storage conditions and wrong procedures. Disc-based back-up systems (Virtual Tape Libraries) physical storage requirements are not so different than any type of data storage system. Their access speed is way better than cartridges. Thanks to using 3 TB capacity discs, they can provide more capacity ready to access within less rack cabinet area.
Data Storage Systems
What are your data storage solutions, can we learn?
As 4S Information Technologies, we provide sales, service and installation of proven and commonly used data storage solutions of various big manufacturers. We cooperate with several manufacturers based on project-based and customer needs. In addition to the projects in which entire solution is provided by the products of same manufacturer; we have also other solutions applied and working properly in which software and storage products from multiple manufacturers. We supply a wide range of solution product starting from Elementary Level NAS systems to corporate level petabyte level SAN architecture systems. We have also disc systems, virtual disc library, tape-based and data storage product-integrated back-up solutions and data storage virtualization service.
Why are data storage solutions so important for a company, what kind of advantages they provide for the companies?
Data storage is an obligation for the companies anymore. Growth speed of data makes data storage in internal server discs impossible. We have customers whose current data storage systems cause performance concern and who work with very large data. These data must not be lost, must be stored without damaging their structure and must be accessible all required times. Therefore, data storage systems are the most important part of organization information systems infrastructure. In case that all stored data is lost, compensation of the hardware is not possible. In order to define a suitable data storage solution, requirements should be properly identified. It is the main reason that we use product ranges from different manufacturers in our solution as 4S Information Technologies. Although purpose of data storage units is similar, they contain very different technical structures. We give priority to determine correct requirements during manufacturing stage in order to define the most suitable data storage solution for an organization or institution. It will be a very wrong approach to say B product of A producer is the suitable product for our customer C. Product and solutions vary based on different requirements
Security is one of the most important criterias in terms of data storage aspect for the companies. How much safe are your solutions, how do you provide security of data you store?
All data storage products that we provide as service and we install are the products which comply with certain standards by their internal structures and support all protocols widely accepted in the sector. As 4S Information Technologies, first of all we determine the most proper product that can serve most advantage for our customer and then we make configuration and installation. The solutions we provide consist of environments where security is very strict; data is backed-up and protected against disc failures and unauthorised access. In other words, data storage systems we install ensure data security eventhough our customers do not want. In case that there is a fault possibility from a single point, we propose necessary recommendations to our customers and make the system restructured so as not to lose data. We are very proud of that no data loss has occurred in the disc system that we proposed in the projects and due to our support services provided by our company having 16 years experience in the sector.
What are the newest trends in data storage?
New trend in data storage sector is virtualization as in desktop sector. As 4S Information Technologies, we have been working in some data storage virtualization projects. Our completed projects and customer satisfaction prove that we on the correct way. The customers are attracted by “trademark independency” which is the biggest benefit of virtualization infrastructure in data storage systems. Another trens is performing back-up operations in disc-based systems instead of tape units. Data storage is safer and easier in such systems.
Many institutions and organizations take back-up in tape cartridges, however data cannot be read from these cartridges or cannot be controlled. Access is problematic to these back-ups when needed due to improper storage conditions and wrong procedures. Disc-based back-up systems (Virtual Tape Libraries) physical storage requirements are not so different than any type of data storage system. Their access speed is way better than cartridges. Thanks to using 3 TB capacity discs, they can provide more capacity ready to access within less rack cabinet area.