StorageSwitch Advantage

StorageSwitch is different from the off the shelf solutions you typically find from other vendors.

First, we grew up in an enterprise environment. That means a number of things:

  1. It has to be available all the time.
  2. It has to be available even if the building is gone.
  3. It's got to scale.
  4. It's got to talk to the storage devices of today.
  5. In the future, I need to be able to move things around.
  6. If you have to move 'down-stream' it's easier than moving upstream, or put another way, it's easier to drive a Ferrari at 65mph, than it is to drive a Yugo at 160.

Next, we needed to understand the technologies:

  1. How are applications going to talk to storage?
  2. What protocols are needed?
  3. How do we add 'more functionality' to the storage, without changing the protocol?
  4. Storage needs more than what the protocol designers thought about 10 or 20 years ago.
  5. What can the storage device do?
  6. Where is the information technology industry moving towards?
  7. Where will the future take us? We need to be prepared for the unforeseeable.

Last, and most important we invested the time to understand the information inside the data.

This meant understanding the legal, compliance, governance, business and records management perspectives of the information. To do this we've spoken with literally hundreds of users, storage professionals, application owners, business executives, legal counsel, archivists, futurists, records managers, data center professionals, data creators, information consumers and more! Here we learned the importance of this information and the variety of needs and uses that people have for their data. No one view of the information was all encompassing to the needs of the users, managers, and guardians (present and future).

The combination of user needs and their perspectives, have formed our strong ethos of data storage, it's protection, how it's presented and it's preservation.