Flash storage offers dramatic performance increases over traditional spinning drives, removing rotational delay and seek time. Additionally, flash can be easily added to and takes up a smaller storage footprint.

Hybrid array technology combines hard disk drives (HDDs) with solid state drives (SSDs) to improve I/O speed. With the ever increasing price-performance gap between HDDs and DRAM, hybrid storage arrays aim to add a non-volatile flash level to the memory hierarchy, providing a more cost-effective solution than solely using SSDs for storage.

We can advise you on how best to structure your storage depending on whether you simply need one SSD cache for some standard PCs, or whether you need to configure an entire enterprise storage solution.

Software Defined Storage (SDS) involves separating the storage capabilities and services from the storage hardware. The aim is to give the system administrators management capabilities through software, rather than being faced with the limitations of physical hardware.

M-Tech work with leading vendors in the field of SDS to revolutionise the performance, cost-savings and productivity gains organisations can achieve. We can help you solve your data infrastructure challenges and better configure your storage to focus on the applications and processes that need it most.

A storage area network, or SAN, is a high-speed network of storage devices that also connects those storage devices with servers. It provides block-level storage that can be accessed by the applications running on any networked servers.

Organisations often choose to deploy a storage area network because it offers better flexibility, availability and performance than direct-attached storage (DAS). Because a SAN removes storage from the servers and consolidates it in a place where it can be accessed by any application, it tends to improve storage utilisation. Storage utilisation improvements often allow organisations to defer purchases of additional storage hardware, which saves money and requires less space in the data centre.

M-Tech support all types of SAN and fabric, including iSCSI, FC, FCoE and NFS (NAS), across key vendors.