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Do you have storage headaches? Scale Abilities has been working with many large enterprise and medium-size clients over the years to solve their storage problems. In our experience, storage problems are more often than not a consequence of poor communication or misunderstandings between team members as much as any particular configuration issues. However, the net result is a poorly configured storage tier with much confusion surrounding it, most frequently associated with a "Netapp Performance Problem", or an "EMC Performance Problem!" Scale Abilities offers you a way out of this expensive and tedious problem. With our experience with very large projects, over many years, we can: | | - Understand all components in your systems, fromphysical disk spindles, through controllers, cache layers, database kernels and all the way up to the application
- Speak the same language as all the teams in your organisation, facilitating free flowing information
- Liaise confidently with vendors. Vendor cooperation is often vital in these processes, and being able to have a confident rapport with the vendor is essential
- Remove the politics. Finger pointing and covering tracks are often the result of internal politics. As external consultants we are somewhat immune to such political maneuvours
| | Scale Abilities has the experience and the tools to cut through to the science of the problem in a relatively short time. By sticking to the facts and having a thorough undertanding of all the components, we can quickly get to the bottom of problems such as: | | - Erratic response times and general storage performance issues
- High read latencies (slow reads)
- High write latencies (slow writes)
- Poor thoughput (bandwidth problems)
- Replication performance problems, such as SRDF performance issues
- General Storage Area Network (SAN) performance, including Fibre Channel deployment
- General Network Attached Storage (NAS) performance
- Poor SQL performance
- Application Performance
- Slow reporting
- Conflicts between storage teams and DBAs!
| | In addition to solving specific problems after they have already become apparent, Scale Abilities can be deployed more strategically to ensure that implementations run smoothly. Examples include: | | - Storage array architecture and design
- High availability architecture and design review
- Implementation of large storage rollouts
- Selecting appropriate RAID levels (eg RAID-1+0, RAID-DP, RAID-5)
- Capacity planning, both in terms of storage capacity and of I/O rates and bandwidth
- Product selection
- Logical and physical data architecture
- Database design and architecture (Improve database performance)
| | For an informal discussion about your potential requirements, please feel free to contact us.
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