Optical storage is a no contact media that allows data to be written using a laser beam. There are currently different types of optical media available CD, DVD or Blu-ray for storing data. The most common technology readily available today is Blu-ray and the media holds up to 1,500,000 A4 pages on a single 100GB disc. The technology is designed to store important data including documents, music, videos, pictures, scans or any other important assets that need to be retained for 50+ years.

Object Storage is a method for storing millions of files and petabytes of data on storage nodes using a global namespace and file system. It is vastly more scalable than traditional file or block storage. It is estimated within the next 7 years 90% of the worlds data will be stored on object.

The need for Green Data Storage is greater now than it has ever been. With increasing electricity costs, the continual threat of power outages and global warming predictions, the whole area of data centre storage management needs to be addressed.

Fibre channel storage has become the de facto standard for high-performance storage for connecting block storage using a fibre channel storage network as a SAN. Fibre channel storage replaced SCSI to provide a highly efficient way of moving data blocks around a network. Today fibre channel stoarge speeds are 64Gbps and allow the ability to connect 16/32Gbps networks and storage together. Creating a SAN storage area network isn’t easy as you need to know the WWN (world wide name), HBA port address, zoning and pools to add your fibre channel storage. Once you have this information you can then start to carve up your storage to provide disk space to your host whether this is ESXi or disk space for use as a share.

Cloud NAS is a locally hosted VM or physical server/appliance connected to a Cloud provider.  This type of cloud storage allows users to store and access their data over the internet or locally.

We provide a range of CCTV storage solutions to store and protect recorded footage that needs to be kept or archived including cloud storage. Video surveillance provides businesses, law enforcement, councils and home users with the ability to remotely monitor their premises using IP CCTV cameras. 

We provide a range of JBOD storage enclosures that are suitable for use with software defined storage, hyper-converged infrastructure, Microsoft Windows Server to create a software RAID, large database sets Splunk, Hadoop, Cassandra, Apache Spark or Kubernetes. Utilize the software to directly access individual drives and create huge data volumes and data sets.

We provide all types of iSCSI storage to provide data blocks to operating systems and applications. Initially, it used 1GbE and then 10GbE, now it works over 25GbE, 45GbE and 100GbE Ethernet networks providing seamless disk space for virtualisation, operating systems and many other applications that require additional disk space.  Over the years, various storage solutions have emerged, each striving to meet the demands of increasing data volumes, performance requirements, and accessibility needs. One such innovation that has transformed the way data is stored and accessed is iSCSI Storage (Internet Small Computer System Interface) storage. In this article, we delve into the intricacies of iSCSI storage, exploring its architecture, working principles, benefits, and applications.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, data centres play a crucial role in supporting our online lives. They store, process, and manage the vast amounts of information that fuel everything from social media to cloud computing. However, as their importance grows, so does their environmental impact. This is where sustainability comes into focus.

For the past 30+ years global organisations have been deploying a 3-tier architecture. It is easy to install, manage and expand comprising of three primary components servers, storage and lastly a network fabric.