As a result, many find protecting and managing business-critical information a complex set of tasks. Compaq ENSA will address these problems by virtualizing storage, allowing vast amounts of storage to be pooled across an enterprise for use by heterogeneous application servers located anywhere. Storage resources can be allocated online from a single, common pool, scaling from gigabytes to petabytes and beyond as needed. Data can be replicated instantly for backup, testing, additional application access, or for user-initiated backups and restores. These elements communicate amongst themselves and act cooperatively to solve storage and data management problems.
Users see only a reliable, available utility that dispenses storage upon demand.
Partnerships With Compaq ENSA, the company leverages its many years of experience with networking, clustering, diagnostics, system management, and multi-vendor storage solutions. However, the architecture also relies heavily upon the expertise of leading hardware and software partners who are driving the industry towards open standards. The list includes companies such as Baan, Brocade, Computer Associates, Crossroads, Gadzoox, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, SAP, Seagate, and Veritas, to name a few, for a variety of open, standards-based hardware and software solutions.