ASC offers enterprises an easy way to purchase, implement, and support new
or existing enterprise SANs, while containing the costs associated with the
ownership and management of storage solutions. Building an ASC storage
network puts enterprise class storage services at your fingertips, allowing you
to do more with less.
Provides total freedom in storage connectivity: Fibre Channel, IP/iSCSI, SCSI,
JBOD, RAID, and tape/library. Because ASC scales easily and encompasses all
protocols and standards (current and upcoming), it is not just a tool, but an
entire future-proof system.
• Reduces management costs by leveraging existing IT infrastructures.
• Cuts capital investment by consolidating storage resources for
maximized utilization and efficiency.
• Dramatically lowers storage administration overhead through
centralized, simplified storage management.
• Eliminates requirement for multiple software licenses and individual
management of storage software for each server.
• Maximizes performance for high bandwidth applications.
• Provides total storage security with key-based authentication.
These benefits are all integrated into the ASC Server, an intelligent storage
processor capable of supporting high performance storage I/O in a complex
data management environment. The ASC solution delivers cost-effective, easy-
to-use, flexible, rapidly deployable solutions for storing, managing, and
migrating data.
ASC also enables service provider businesses, including Internet Service
Providers (ISPs,) Application Service Providers (ASPs,) and Storage Service
Providers (SSPs), to grow and manage their storage resources more easily.
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