ANDATACO Network Storage Architecture

RAID Lite is a powerful network storage solution developed under ANDATACO's advanced Network Storage Architecture.

ANDATACO believes network storage must be implemented as an integrated system with a greater purpose than being just a bit bucket. The ANDATACO Network Storage Architecture is a blueprint for organizing network storage to maximize network productivity by providing High Accessibility Storage. This is done by increasing network performance and maintaining access to data. There are three measurable benefits of ANDATACO's Network Storage Architecture: 1) reduced network downtime; 2) improved productivity; and 3) lower operating costs.

It takes many inter-related network processes to provide the features and benefits of ANDATACO's Network Storage Architecture. These processes are illustrated in a hierarchy based on how well each process contributes to maintaining network data accessibility.

High Data Accessibility
Hierarchy of Performance

The objective of each process, moving from the top to bottom, is to contribute more to maintaining high accessibility. As indicated in the diagram, RAID and disk mirroring is ranked higher in the hierarchy than backup and archive as they tend to contribute more to data accessibility. No one process attains high accessibility by itself. Each process has unique capabilities but combining them leads to building more powerful and stable networks.

How to best architect network storage depends on each network's business objectives. Not all networks require all elements of this hierarchy while some environments cannot afford to be without them. Lost productivity due to inaccessible data in mission critical environments, for example, can be extremely costly.

In this document, we are focusing on the third element in the hierarchy, RAID.