Blue Coat WAN optimization and Dell PowerVault storage consolidation
Demand for increased storage, fueled by exponential data growth, can result in storage sprawl that can be difficult to manage at both remote or branch office (ROBO) and central data center locations. ROBO locations, in particular, often do not have full-time IT personnel, and the staff may not have expertise in managing storage and performing backup and recovery operations. These constraints can put ROBO data particularly at risk of loss or noncompliance with regulatory requirements.
Storage consolidation can be a key strategy for overcoming these challenges. To help organizations implement a successful, scalable ROBO storage consolidation strategy, Dell and its partners offer a range of storage arrays and appliances—including Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays, Dell PowerVault™ DL2100 backup appliances, and Blue Coat® ProxySG® WAN Optimization appliances. EqualLogic arrays enable storage consolidation at remote sites and support automated replication to a centralized location. PowerVault DL2100 backup appliances offer built-in data deduplication and compression features that help to significantly reduce wide area network (WAN) traffic and provide reliable, fast local recovery at remote sites. And Blue Coat ProxySG appliances offer advanced features for optimizing WAN connectivity, including data deduplication, data compression, and network protocol enhancements designed to further reduce WAN traffic.
Organizations can take advantage of these systems to both enhance data protection and application recovery through storage consolidation, and overcome WAN constraints because of limited-bandwidth deployments between a ROBO and a central office. By implementing a storage consolidation strategy based on EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays, PowerVault DL2100 backup appliances, and Blue Coat ProxySG WAN Optimization appliances, they can create reliable, scalable storage consolidation and data protection and recovery for their ROBOs—enabling them to streamline data management, ensure regulatory compliance, and meet organizational recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements.