Now you can meet and exceed any service level with a SIGMAnet information infrastructure solution tailored to your business requirements—and your budget.

NAS, SAN, and CAS solutions for any service level—and any budget.

The best connectivity choice is one that delivers the right service level for each application or situation. That's why SIGMAnet offers a full range of open, integrated, and automated NAS, SAN, and CAS solutions: to give you the most complete choice of performance, availability, and functionality levels at a wide range of prices.

Whether you need network attached storage (NAS) to leverage IP connectivity, storage area networks (SAN) with Fibre Channel connectivity, or “content addressed storage” (CAS) for storage and retrieval of fixed content—SIGMAnet is your first choice to deliver best-of-breed solutions in each category, and integrate all three to work together seamlessly in your environment.

SIGMAnet’s solutions unify your applications, servers, and storage in a single, easy-to-manage infrastructure so you can more cost-effectively manage, protect, and share your information. With a SIGMAnet infrastructure storage solution, you can:

• Reduce cost. Consolidate servers and storage—and save money.
• Make it easy. Centralize control of storage, device, and task management with powerful tools and automation—maximizing ease-of-use.
• Protect information. Eliminate planned and unplanned downtime with local and remote replication capabilities customized for your business.
• Manage change. Create the flexibility you need to scale up or down without disrupting the business.

Server Consolidation – HP/VMware Solutions

Companies today are combining data centers, consolidating on servers with newer, more powerful technology, and relying on management tools to eliminate or reduce costly downtime. HP delivers industry standard platforms that are among the most reliable, scalable and secure available, and are well-suited for your consolidation effort. ProLiant server-based solutions can lower the overall cost of IT and increase the return on your IT investment.

Whichever approach to consolidation you choose, SIGMAnet and its partners can provide highly reliable and cost-effective solutions based on industry-standard ProLiant Servers and VMware virtual server technology. And the software tools needed to manage your consolidated IT environment are either included or available. Powerful ProLiant-based clustering solutions, blade servers, and a wide range of HP StorageWorks products can meet all of your IT consolidation requirements.

Server Consolidation – VMware Solutions  

As a VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) Partner, SIGMAnet’s highly trained and certified engineers are able to successfully implement complete Server Virtualization projects. Using the Capacity Planner Program from VMware, SIGMAnet is able to analyze your server environment more accurately and produce a complete and comprehensive report on the new virtualized environment. This service helps you determine how many servers you have now and how many you will have in the new virtualized environment. This service is only available through VAC partners like SIGMAnet.

By working with SIGMAnet to deploy a stable and mature Virtualization technology in your IT infrastructure you can realize these goals and many others. Some of the benefits are:

• Server Consolidation: Today, your servers are running at a fraction of their computing capacity. Through server virtualization, diverse operating systems and applications can be consolidated quickly and easily onto existing hardware assets thus making them work harder. You own the idle capacity, why not fully use it?
• Increased Business Agility: A new server can be deployed literally in minutes as opposed to days to meet business demands. A virtual partition can be provisioned or resized quickly to accommodate new applications, increasing workloads and system maintenance.
• Business Resiliency and Disaster Recovery: Virtual machines are files that can be stored, backed-up, restored, standardized and moved around on demand. This provides tremendous ability to recover from data loss or a disaster.
• Enhanced Availability and Security: Technical problems are isolated within each virtual partition without effecting adjacent partitions and applications. One misbehaving application will not bring down others.
• Easier OS and Hardware Migrations: Server virtualization enables legacy applications and their running OS to be migrated without modification onto virtual partitions running on the latest hardware, and the retirement of legacy hardware. Hardware compatibility concerns are no longer a problem.
• Streamlined Test and Development: A single platform can host multiple test environments and multiple iterations of each software stack. Development, testing, and rolling back to earlier versions of applications can be done seamlessly without worries.

VMware cites the following TCO benefits from server virtualization:

• Overall cost reduction: 29-64% achieved through:
• Hardware cost reduction
• Software licensing cost reduction
• Operational Efficiency Increase

SIGMAnet offers the full spectrum of products and services you need to get the best possible solution for your business. With SIGMAnet, you get: the industry's best networked storage platforms with the broadest range of connectivity choices. Open storage management software. Complete pre-tested interoperability. And the industry's highest-rated service and support.