Stormwood Data Center
Virtualization
StormWood’s partner in Virtualization is Vmware. Virtualization dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of resources and applications in your organization. Internal resources are underutilized under the old “one server, one application” model and IT admins spend too much time managing servers rather than innovating. An automated datacenter, built on a VMware virtualization platform, lets you respond to market dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before. VMware Infrastructure delivers resources, applications—even servers—when and where they’re needed. VMware customers typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware Infrastructure.
Storage and Backup
Dell EqualLogic storage arrays deliver high performance and availability while maintaining a low cost of ownership. Congruent with StormWood’s focus on advanced but easy to use technology, the PS Series Storage Array provides consolidated, networked storage that is scalable, flexible, and easy to configure and deploy. The PS Series are self-managing, eliminating constant attention from you, the administrator. Your time should be spent developing and executing the strategic technology vision for your enterprise, not on complicated storage interfaces and worrying about downtime. Let us show you how organizations large and small are utilizing EqualLogic to simplify and consolidate storage, all while leveraging the latest technology in virtualization, automatic configuration, and storage load balancing and provisioning.
StormWood is proud to partner with ExaGrid, the only disk backup appliance with data deduplication that offers best-of-breed solutions for these essential capabilities:
- Lowest price and IT operational costs through unique architecture
- Storage efficiency from 10:1 to 50:1 via byte-level data deduplication
- Quick installation with a turnkey plug-and-play backup appliance
- Shortest backup window, using post-process data deduplication
- No change to your existing backup application via NAS interface
- Fastest restore and tape copy by storing a full recent backup copy
- No performance degradation as data grows via GRID scalability
- Fast disaster recovery via WAN-efficient replication and rapid restore
- Deduplication and replication status via job-level reporting
- Unparalleled scalability from 1TB to 100TBs with no forklift upgrades
Servers
The latest technology meets affordability with the Dell PowerEdge line of servers. Whether it’s rack-mount or tower, virtual or physical, production, test, or development, Dell offers a full line of customizable servers to meet your company’s needs, project by project. Every application has different requirements, and not all servers should be the same. StormWood will help you achieve your technology vision by working alongside your team to define a roadmap. This is a structured process where we will determine the correct specifications, design the server infrastructure, acquire the hardware, deploy the solution, and provide training on use and on-going maintenance of your new server infrastructure. StormWood understands that your applications and databases are the lifeblood of your organization. Our job is to leverage Dell technology to make these critical components streamlined and stable so you can focus on the big picture.
Branch office Management
Automated Remote Management (ARM) appliances from Uplogix combine the access and control of a console server with the functionality of network management software to automate the actions of an IT administrator. For a fraction of the cost of remote or travelling personnel, you have the ability to manage and recover remote sites through a single interface, even without WAN connectivity. Uplogix also provides a safety net and a level of security for critical system components:
- Limit the access your vendors or technicians have to make configuration changes
- Audit who accessed appliances or servers when, as well as log their activity
- Required redundant verification to commit system changes
- Surgical rollbacks in the event that an update doesn’t take correctly
- Firmware or software upgrades automatically
- Hard or soft reboots from the software interface, Control Center
