Riptide offers various enterprise shared storage systems for securely storing customers’ server data. Our BCP/DR solutions for most datacenter environments have a shared storage system providing block, file and object protocols to the server environment. Our BCP/DR solution architects are capable of influencing & implementing various design for unified storage from partners such as NetApp, DellEMC, HPe, Synology, Lenovo etc.

 

Key benefits of our unified storage solutions include:


  • N+1 availability – All key components on the enterprise storage systems are designed with no single point of failure (SPOF) to ensure that customers systems availability is guaranteed say when a storage controller, a PSU unit, disk plane, cache module, FAN, I/O path, SAN switch etc. malfunctions.
  • Support for both 8/16Gbs fiber channel speeds or 1/10Gb ethernet & fiber speeds for server storage-connectivity.

Ability to deliver the perfect balance between server performance, capacity and costs by delivering either all flash or hybrid storage configurations combining SSD & spinning drives.

 

  • The storage systems have hot spares and are additionally able to survive multiple disk failures in one aggregate without risks for data loss.
  • Ability to provide VM server high availability by protecting key workloads from downtime data loss events associated with server hardware failures.
  • Ability to protect VM servers from planned & unplanned downtime events by having ability to migrate live workloads from one physical server to another host in the same cluster.
  • Space efficiency – leveraging data deduplication, compression, compaction & volume thin provisioning features to reduce the overall storage capacity requirement.
  • Ability to provide onsite backups using volume snapshots and data vaulting features that ensure the organization is able to meet its required RPTOs and protect its data layer from multiple possible disasters including ransomware attacks by abstracting snapshots from the rest of the server network.
  • Ability to provide offsite data protection by mirroring all customer data to a DR facility or even to the cloud.
  • Ability to easily create clones of production volumes that can be leveraged for various dev & test activities by creating sandbox environments.
  • Ability to deliver QOS for critical workloads by guaranteeing Min.Max & burst IOPS for each server workload.