With the tremendous growth in storage requirements for all organisations, beset by an onslaught of email, data-heavy applications and legal requirements to retain copies of all electronic correspondence, Kanatek has made it its business to help. Whether it's laying out a blueprint for a storage architecture, consolidating mixed environments or cutting down the management costs, Kanatek is able to provide storage expertise.

High Availability & Fail-over solutions integrate proven hardware from Kanatek's technology partners and utilize networked storage architectures to leverage clustering.

Server Consolidation has allowed Kanatek to demonstrate consolidation ratios as high as 80:1 with enterprise range servers where appropriate. This translates in to substantial savings for organizations.

• Storage Area Networks (SAN) were traditionally designed for applications such as database management systems and online transaction programs, which demand block-level direct access rather than file-level access.
• Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions are ideal for file-server requirements such as serving web pages or file/print applications.
• Attached storage is a traditional means of directly attaching storage to a server.

Microsoft Exchange has become a common standard in many organizations and unplanned outages can quickly escalate in to major problems. Kanatek can consolidate Exchange message data on "unlimited" storage at the server, which is a more productive solution than dispersing it to the desktop.