Introduction

The Challenge
Many small and medium-sized businesses are looking to leverage advanced database technology to power a range of e-business and on-demand business applications. Unfortunately, while the range of such applications is growing constantly, IT budgets and rack space are not. To deploy the customer-centric business applications they need to compete effectively, small and medium-sized organizations need powerful database solutions they can afford-and flexible, cost-effective database storage solutions that keep pace with business growth and evolution.

The Solution: Adaptec Snap Server 4500 Storage Array
The Adaptec Snap Server 4500 is a cost-effective shared iSCSI storage server that offers small businesses or remote office locations high throughput, best-in-class storage density, simple deployment, and exceptional price/performance. Used with industry-leading database solutions-such as IBM's cost-effective DB2 Express-the Adaptec Snap Server 4500 Storage Array offers small and medium-sized businesses a range of benefits:

Exceptional price/performance, putting high-performance database storage capabilities within reach of small and medium-sized businesses Ease of deployment and management, with easy, appliance-like installation, configuration and management, and a compact 1U footprint High density, with available 1.6TB configuration in just 1U, plus the ability to add two Snap Disk 10 Expansion Arrays to achieve a total capacity of 3.6TB. Scalability-Instant Capacity Expansion (I.C.E.) feature lets you dynamically increase volumes and use the expanded capacity immediately, without disrupting user access to the volume Enhanced data protection, with a complete data protection suite including enhanced snapshot and synchronous volume mirroring

The combination of the Adaptec Snap Server 4500 Storage Array and IBM's DB2 Express provides an attractive, highly cost-effective solution for the moderate transaction database workloads commonly found in small and medium-sized businesses. Such a configuration ideally meets the needs of these businesses today, providing the flexibility to grow and evolve to meet future needs, while protecting their database storage investment.

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