SAN provides best of breed unified and integrated enterprise class storage in a tier-based performance through ISCSI / FC channel. Delivered on a pay-per-use model, SAN offers high performance, security, and availability guarantee.
Industry standard management & monitoring tools deployed to report on the utilization, growth, and performance statistics on a periodic basis, thus assuring reliability, scalability, availability of the storage environment. This results in better clarity on existing storage usage and assists in planning growth that aligns to business objectives
Features | Benefits |
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Dual Site storage - Mumbai and Bengaluru -Ready State DR/BCP | Multi-site storage service availability with integrated network capacity provides simple, reliable and cost economic data replication for DR / BCP purpose |
High performance redundant platform | Built on High Performance SAS/ FC drives and high capacity SATA II drives; fully redundant high performance active- storage controllers connected through fully redundant Storage Area Network |
On-Demand Scalability | Online logical volume expansion allows to change the size of storage volumes without restarting the application, recreating the volume, and backup and restoring data to the volume |
Utilization based chargeback | Sify is the first service provider in India offering utilization based chargeback matching information business criticality |
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership | Pricing per GB/ per month starting from 50 GB to multi- TB's; Fully managed environment helps enterprises cut capital expenditure and reduced Total Cost of Ownership |
Monitoring & Management | Entire storage platform monitored and managed by a dedicated team of storage administrators - 24/7 – 365 days |
Stringent SLA | Assures up to 99.99% service level guarantee for availability of Storage Area Network |
Enhanced Performance | High availability architecture at all levels – Storage Core, multi-GBPS Fibre Channel backbone |
Storage Capacity is available on Per GB per month basis. It allows you to scale your storage capacity as per your business needs instantaneously, without worrying about capacity constraints, technology refresh, and management skills sets, etc.
0.63 Rupees Per GB per hour
Storage Area Network (SAN) Tiers | |||||
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Category | Service Feature | Performance Tier | Enhanced Tier | Standard Tier | Economy Tier |
Storage Specifications | Performance | > 2500 IOPS | > 1500 | > 1000 | > 500 |
Storage Availability Guarantee (SLA) | 99.95% | 99.95% | 99.95% | 99.95% | |
Access Mechanism to Storage (SAN Fabric) |
4 / 8 Gbps FC / 10 Gbps FCOE |
4 / 8 Gbps FC / 1 Gbps iSCSI |
4 / 8 Gbps FC / 1 Gbps iSCSI |
1 Gbps iSCSI | |
HBA Cards Compatibility | 2x 4Gbps FC HBA's / 2x FCoE HBA's | 2x 4Gbps FC HBA's / 4x iSCSI Hardware HBA's | 2x 4Gbps FC HBA's / 2x iSCSI HBA's | 2x iSCSI HBA's | |
Applicable Usage Environment | ERP / Database / Mailing / Virtualization Solutions | Database / Mailing / Virtualization / Web Farms | Web Applications | File / Backup / Archival Solutions | |
Subscription Parameters |
Minimum Storage Capacity Subscription | 100 GB | 100 GB | 100 GB | 100 GB |
Additional Storage Capacity Subscription | 25 GB | 25 GB | 25 GB | 25 GB | |
Data Security | Fabric Zoning | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Fiber Channel SAN Interface | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
IP SAN Interface | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Online Reporting / Management | Online Reporting and Monitoring | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Utilization Reporting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Online Customer Support Portal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
27x7x365 Storage Management | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Storage Optimization and Forecasting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The InfinitStorage SAN service has 5 main components;
Comparative Analysis - Sify's InfinitStorage V/S Server Based Storage
Embedded Storage (Sify-InfinitStorage Platform) |
Server Based Storage | Analysis / Customer Impact |
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Reliability | ||
Highly Reliable • SAS / FC (Fiber Channel) Drive (Native Redundancy) • Dual Controller |
Reliability is a concern • SAS or SATA drives • Sever based processors and storage controller cards installed internally in the server. Single point of failure if storage controllers or any hardware fail. |
Storage systems are nerve center for critical data storage and hence needs to offer very high level of reliability. At times performance can be compromised, but Reliability is of supreme importance. |
• Integrated architecture offers support for FC / SAS / SATA drives within the same drive shelf. • Virtual LUNs for non-disruptive data migration within the array |
• Separate controllers for SAS /SATA • Need separate cable to attach JBODS • Restricted continuity between IOPS. |
More number of components in server based storage means more single point of failures, thus directly impacting the overall reliability |
SLA Driven InfinitStorage comes with 99.99% availability guarantee |
No SLA Possible • Warranty Mostly vendor driven • Requires vendor coordination |
InfinitStorage offers, Single Point of Ownership Complete Peace of Mind |
Performance | ||
Advanced technology for Superior performance and value: • High-performance SAS/FC drives and high-capacity Serial ATA (SATA) drives |
Performance is far lower since OS eats up processing / memory / RAM resources • Support for iSCSI/ NAS over Storage Based Processors with requirement for additional storage controllers • Limited number of storage ports (iSCSI only) |
Embedded storage is built to provide storage volume and hence offers much higher performance then server based storage where Server OS consumes most system resources. * Server based storage is seeing negative growth due to their low performance and reliability issues |
Higher Cache – Over 1 GB per SP | Only 8 MB Cache available within the server | Higher Cache offers better performance |
Number of Spindles Adequate number of Spindles as per business application demand |
No. of Spindles Limited numbers (only 4) thus impacting business performance |
Often Storage systems fails on performance when Business applications really need |
Fully Managed and Monitored • Sify manages the complete value chain – Data Center, Network, Storage Systems, as well Servers. • Single Point of Ownership |
Intensive Management Required • Needs to manage multiple vendors, technologies, components • No Single Point of ownership |
Cost of Management |
Scalability and Management | ||
Scalable-InfinitStorage • From 1 GB to 100 TB or more • In Multiples of 10 GB both on FC / SATA • Upscale or downscale |
No Scalability possible • Needs to buy more resources to scale • Lead time needed to scale systems • No option to down scale |
Improves ROI through superior scalability, accelerated time-to-service and increased term flexibility |
Reporting for Analysis • Usage Reports will give complete view on utilization pattern and future projection |
Reporting to be managed by customer • Customer owns the capacity and demand projection • Need to continually monitor systems |
Sify Storage expert team consults with customer to do analysis of storage usage and help define capacity planning. Very unique approach to storage services |
Flexible Contract Term • InfinitStorage can be taken for term ranging from 1 month onwards. • Upgrade and downgrade is possible on monthly interval basis |
One time capacity built out • No option to downgrade the systems • Upgrades will require new setup purchase – mostly time driven • Minimum 24/36 months contract |
Customers get full flexibility of synchronizing their storage demand - supply chain Flexible contract term helps meet business surge for short periods |
Protection against Technology Obsolescence Sify ensures that customers get best of technology advancements at most optimized cost. |
Protection against Technology Obsolescence Customer is mostly stuck with systems until the end of contract period and after this may need to re-invest for new technology |
Storage technology is changing very fast. Continual enhancement in capacity, security and performance is driving better price-performance ratio |
Owned Storage v/s InfinitStorage
Owned Storage | InfinitStorage |
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Complexity • New data types • Many islands of storage • Legacy systems • Avg 2 year technology refresh |
Simplified • Simple Tier plans matching data classification requirements • Unified integrated storage • Technology Protection |
High Cost of ownership • Low utilization of storage • Power and cooling challenges • Cost of management |
No CAPEX • Requirement based subscription • Fully managed – unified Storage • SLA driven |
Excess / shortage of capacity • Fixed budgeting procurement • Avg 40-50% excess capacity • Difficulty in forecasting storage requirements |
Usage based synchronized uptake • Dynamically scale when needed • Burst capacity to handle peaks • In-depth forecasting analysis |
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