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Anyone Can sell Technology Buy Solutions.
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Storage Solutions For Executives.
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• Todays Business Is Driving Unprecedented Storage
  Growth
• Enterprise Information Distribution
• Transactional and Supply Chain Management
• Data Mirroring, Data Replication
• Data Warehousing
• Data Recovery and Backup

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• Emerging Demands WillAdd Fuel to the Fire
• Enterprise Backup Strategy
• Integrated Messaging Applications
• Leveraging Existing Infrastructures
• Storage Consolidation and Management
• E-Business

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Exponential Storage Growth Doubling Every 6
9 Months
Source International Data Corp.
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• Storage InfrastructuresAre Ill-equipped to
  Handle Triple-Digit Storage Growth
• Storage is cheap mindset has brought a
  proliferation of disks with no overall plan.
• Disks attached to servers are inflexible
  and difficult to scale
• Some storage resources are underutilized
• Data availability, integrity, security and
  disaster tolerance are compromised
• Management of decentralized storage is very
  difficult, particularly in light of IT skills
  shortage

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Disks May Be Cheap, But Storage TCO Is
Skyrocketing According to IDC, one storage
administrator is required for every 300GB of
decentralized storage.
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• A New Approach is Needed
• Flexibility, Scalability and Availability Are
  Key!
• Information available throughout the
  enterprise
• Reduced TCO
• Enhanced resilience of mission critical
  applications
• Better use of limited IT resources

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• Operational Advantages of Networked Storage
• Storage Consolidation
• Reallocates Storage as Needed
• Reduces Management Overhead
• Improves Service Levels
• Higher Availability and Reliability
• No Single Point of Failure
• Improved Failover Capabilities
• Efficient Backup and Recovery
• Improved Performance
• Storage Processes Dont Sap Server
  Resources
• Utilizes Networks Designed for Storage
  Functions

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What is a SAN? A private, Fibre Channel based
network. Optimized for Data I/O. Same GBICs as
Gig/Ethernet Switches, same optical cable.
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What is NAS? IP Network Attached Storage. Key
focus User Collaboration on Users Files. Runs
over Gig/E, looks like a Server on the Network,
but no server, just Storage.
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• SAN vs. NAS
• SANs deliver data as blocks through
  dedicated Fibre Channel networks, removing
  data traffic from the LAN. A SAN is the
  better solution when speed is important and
  block-level communication is required.
• NAS delivers data as files over existing
  network resources. NAS is the better solution
  for file-level sharing.
• SAN and NAS can and do co-exist. Companies often
  deploy both technologies in order to gain
  thebest solutions for specific needs.

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• GDS Offers Best-of-Breed Solutions
• We have partnerships with the top networked
  storage vendors
• StorageTek
• McData
• EMC²
• Hitachi Data Systems - HDS
• Emulex
• Brocade
• Cisco Systems
• Veritas
• HP OpenView
• Quantum/ATL

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Enterprise Storage Infrastructure Building the
Foundation
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New Opportunities in Business Continuance
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• GDS Value Proposition
• Proven Methodology / Best Practices
• Deliver Best-of-Breed Solutions
• 24x7 Management Solutions
• Top Industry Certifications
• Customer-focused Professionals
• Single Point of Accountability and Contact

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Conclusion GDS has the technical expertise and
practical experience to design, implement and
support your critical IT infrastructure. We
look forward to the opportunity to prove the
business benefits.
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