DATA STORAGE

Cooperating with worldwide leading software and hardware companies in its field, with the accumulated knowledge and experience in its possession, we develop solutions that enable continuous data communication.

Central Data Storage
Demand for data storage is growing day by day. Text based data is replaced by data combining video, audio and text data, which requires high capacity. Parallel to this development, architectures have been under development during recent years that would ensure much easier data management and its flexible use. Expansion of these technologies called Storage Area Networks and Network Attached Storage is continuously increasing. We have been recently combining those technologies with gateway solutions thus satisfying both SAN and NAS demands.

Back Up and Restoring Solutions
Found leader according to a survey conducted by INTERPRO in the field of data backup in 2004, Gantek defines its objective as providing a wide range of solutions from desktop systems to data centers. With these solutions the company produces the most flexible alternatives for customers' needs, independent of the application, platform and hardware profiles. Using proven solutions of world leaders in their respective fields such as Symantec and EMC, Gantek integrates with these solutions products of companies such as Overland, Tandberg, Sun Microsystems, Plasmon, Hitachi and Netapp operating in magnetic or optical media.

The followings can be named among solution alternatives provided by Gantek Technologies in the field of data backup and restoring:

• Central backup systems on the LAN and WAN
• Backup on SAN/NAS architectures
• Server-Free Backup
• Simultaneous backup of applications (Online Backup)
• Variable based and synthetic backup
• Tape and disc based backup
• Disc libraries
• Disk Staging
• Instant Recovery from Snapshots
• System recovery
• Backup and synchronization of desktop and mobile devices

Disaster Recovery Solutions
Basic obligation of every institution is to keep at the maximum level reliability, service level and survival period of systems they provide services through. With this purpose measures should be taken against any disasters that could occur, from the narrowest to the broadest range. We offer institutions solution alternatives at all levels in line with the return point objective (RPO) and the return time objective (RTO). The followings can be named among these solutions:

• Vault Management
• Volume Mirroring
• Server based synchronous and asynchronous replication
• Disc system based synchronous and periodic replication
• Local aggregate solutions
• Wide area network aggregate and global aggregate
• Disaster recovery planning
• Operation continuity planning
  

Document Management and Archiving
As a result of rapid increase of data, uniform processing of all data increases the processing and total costs of ownership. Data needs to be stored after being classified according to its importance and in line with this purpose, long storage and archiving of data recently examined under the "Data Life Cycle Management" concept increasingly gains importance also in our country. Using archiving solutions of EMC Documentum, EMC Legato and Symantec, we manage life cycles of data involved in documents and applications. WORM features preferred with the purpose of legal stability of the data stored are provided based on disc, optic or magnetic equipment.

Data Source Management
Quality of use of the centralized data is very important for the total cost of ownership. To ensure this, data use should be as much intelligible and traceable as possible. Among solutions provided for this purpose, the followings can be named:

Data Storage Asset Management: Data Storage Asset Management allows view all components constituting the infrastructure of the centralized data in one single console. Thus, current viewing and processing of configurations at any time is made easier.

Drive Space Monitoring and Analysis: Measures how the data storage space is used among groups, departments and companies and measures the system utilization rates. Identical files are found, thus decreasing the space they occupy on the drive.

Quota and Content Management: Investments are protected for a long time by controlling the contents of data. Disc space and utilization control is provided to users in line with policies desired.

Server Source Management: In addition to vertical scaling, horizontal scaling is nowadays gaining importance. It is observable that, with this purpose, especially "blade" servers are getting widespread for various applications. Server Source Management Solutions allow easy management of the blade server medium and simultaneous and fast loading of application images to blade servers. Additionally, logical server technologies such as VMWARE are also offered.

Application Service Management
How to define the source of a performance problem in critical multi layer architecture? Does this problem lie in one of the application layers? Or is it located in the server layer? Or in one of the lower disc layers? The largest setback faced in this kind of problems is the tendency of staff responsible for each layer to assert that no problem exists in their respective layer to redirect the estimated cause to other points, thus putting the problem into a deadlock. We approach this issue using the products of Symantec i3, the single inter-layer performance management solution on the market, and relieves all application performance problems from one single point.

Service Level Management and Utility Computing (Demand Based Data Processing)
We are in a period when data processing centers are converted from cost centers to profit centers. From now on the objective is instant replies of data processing sources to the needs of business processes. With this purpose sources should be transparently monitored and instantly made available for use when necessary. In this field we offer future-oriented service level management solution.