Single Architecture
Nextra's single-architecture approach radically changes the rules of the game of enterprise-class data storage. Until today, the industry commonly practiced multi-tiered storage architecture, providing different levels of storage to different applications. This paradigm is a consequence of sky-rocketing high-end storage costs — both direct, capital costs and indirect, administration costs.
The situation becomes even more complex when data needs to be migrated between different storage tiers, and the ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) concept is introduced to an organization's IT operation.
Nextra offers an alternative to multi-tiering by introducing the first single-architecture system – a system that provides better service than existing storage solutions, and at considerably reduced TCO.
The revolutionary scheme of one system for all needs has many advantages, among them:
- All applications get top-level performance, reliability, availability and features, giving users an overall better level of service
- A single storage architecture is enough, reducing data center complexity
- There is never a need to migrate applications between storage tiers due to a change in their requirements or importance
- The ILM concept is rendered redundant, saving on ILM-related software license costs, administration efforts, and management attention, and sparing users migration-related downtime and other service issues related to ILM
