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Futureproofing Business Operations with Pure Storage

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In an era where data has become the lifeblood of businesses, the need for efficient and scalable data storage solutions has never been more critical. Pure Storage emerges as a game-changer, offering cutting-edge storage solutions that can help businesses in the Philippines futureproof their operations and unlock new levels of efficiency and innovation across various industries. This makes it even more important to find a good Pure Storage Reseller in the Philippines that can help take your business further.

The Evolution of Data Storage: A Need for Change

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Traditional data storage methods have served businesses for years, but as technology advances and the volume of data generated explodes, these solutions are showing their limitations. Conventional storage systems often struggle to keep up with the increasing demands of data-hungry applications, leading to bottlenecks, latency issues, and hampered productivity.

Pure Storage steps in with a forward-looking approach that embraces modern data challenges. Its solutions are designed to address the limitations of legacy systems and provide businesses with the tools they need to stay competitive in an increasingly data-driven world.

Unmatched Performance and Reliability

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One of the key advantages of Pure Storage is its ability to deliver unmatched performance and reliability. Traditional storage solutions may experience performance degradation as they age, leading to frustration and a loss of productivity. Pure Storage, on the other hand, employs advanced technologies like all-flash arrays that ensure consistent and lightning-fast performance over time. This means businesses can run their applications and processes without being held back by slow storage systems.

Scalability for Growing Demands

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As businesses expand and their data requirements grow, the need for scalable storage becomes paramount. Conventional storage solutions often require complex and time-consuming hardware upgrades to accommodate increased data loads. Pure Storage offers a scalable architecture that allows businesses to seamlessly expand their storage capacity without disruptions. This scalability ensures that businesses can adapt to changing demands without sacrificing performance or efficiency.

Enhancing Industries Across the Board

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Pure Storage isn’t limited to a specific industry; its benefits span across various sectors, elevating operations and driving innovation. In the healthcare industry, for instance, Pure Storage enables seamless access to patient records, medical imaging, and research data, leading to quicker diagnoses and better patient care. Similarly, the finance sector can benefit from the high-speed data access provided by Pure Storage, improving real-time analytics and enabling rapid decision-making.

Manufacturing companies can optimize their supply chains by leveraging Pure Storage’s efficiency, while e-commerce businesses can ensure seamless online shopping experiences for customers. The education sector can enhance remote learning capabilities, and the media industry can accelerate content delivery. Essentially, any industry that relies on data can leverage Pure Storage to gain a competitive edge.

Switching to Pure Storage: A Glimpse into the Future

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Comparing Pure Storage to traditional storage solutions reveals a world of difference. While conventional systems might involve complex management, performance bottlenecks, and limitations on growth, Pure Storage eliminates these pain points. Businesses that switch to Pure Storage can enjoy:

Faster Decision-Making: The instantaneous data access provided by Pure Storage allows businesses to make real-time decisions, gaining a competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced market.

Cost Savings: The scalability of Pure Storage means businesses can pay for what they need, avoiding unnecessary upfront expenses and ongoing maintenance costs.

Efficient Resource Utilization: By eliminating performance bottlenecks, businesses can optimize their IT resources, leading to higher productivity and cost-efficiency.

Futureproof Infrastructure: With Pure Storage’s modern architecture, businesses can stay ahead of technological advancements, ensuring their data storage infrastructure remains relevant and efficient in the years to come.

Seamless Integration: Pure Storage solutions can integrate seamlessly into existing IT environments, minimizing disruption during the transition.

Embracing the Future with a Pure Storage Reseller in the Philippines You Can Trust

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As businesses in the Philippines strive to stay competitive and resilient, partnering with a Pure Storage reseller, like CT Link, can pave the way for a smoother and more successful transformation. With the help of resellers like CT Link, businesses not only get access to the Pure Storage solutions but also offer expertise in implementation and ongoing support.

For more information about Pure Storage and how it can revolutionize your business operations, you may contact us, a Pure Storage reseller in the Philippines, at marketing@ctlink.com.ph. Unlock the potential of your data and propel your business towards a brighter, more data-driven future.

Wireless Big Data: A Tech Update with Cisco and Pure Storage

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Wireless Big Data: A Tech Update with Cisco and Pure Storage

Wireless big data has the ability to provide in-depth information and analytics which allows operators to facilitate data-driven approaches for network optimization and operation. CT Link Systems, Inc. in partnership with MSI-ECS Philippines will be hosting a tech update on Cisco (specifically on Cisco Meraki) and Pure Storage this coming June 14, 2018 at M Cafe.  We hope to help further educate our attendees on how today’s businesses can benefit on the new innovations from both brands when partnered up with our CT Link business solutions.

To learn more about these solutions, you can email rcruz@www.ctlink.com.ph or contact us directly at 893-9515 to find out how you can register for this event!

About Cisco Meraki

Cisco Meraki is a cloud-based networking solution that provides a wide range of networking products, including wireless access points, switches, security appliances, and mobile device management tools. The platform is designed to simplify the deployment, management, and troubleshooting of enterprise networks.

One of the key features of Cisco Meraki is its centralized management interface. All Meraki devices are managed through a single dashboard that can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. This makes it easy to deploy and manage networks across multiple locations without needing to physically access each device.

Another key feature of Cisco Meraki is its cloud-based architecture. Meraki devices communicate with each other and with the management dashboard over the internet, eliminating the need for on-premise hardware or software. This reduces the upfront cost of deploying a network and makes it easier to scale as needed.

Cisco Meraki also provides advanced security features to protect networks and data. Meraki devices can be configured to enforce policies such as content filtering, intrusion prevention, and malware protection. The platform also includes tools for threat detection and response, giving network administrators the ability to quickly identify and mitigate security risks.

In addition to networking and security products, Cisco Meraki also offers mobile device management tools. This allows organizations to manage and secure their mobile devices, including laptops, smartphones, and tablets. Meraki’s mobile device management tools include features such as remote wipe, device enrollment, and application management.

Pure Storage: Why All-Flash storage is the next Critical Step for PACS and VNA Solutions

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Pure Storage: Why All-Flash storage is the next Critical Step for PACS and VNA Solutions

Presently, Healthcare organizations are becoming more reliant on their enterprise imaging systems to improve their overall quality of service they provide to their clients.  However, as growth in size and scope continues for imaging, those responsible for constructing and managing the Picture Archiving Communication Systems (PACS) and Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) solutions will have to handle various new and potentially difficult challenges.  However, within these challenges lies opportunities to improve patient care with storage upgrades to support the PACS and VNA solutions.

Challenges

With major advances in both imaging technology and information technology, clinicians now have the means to use a broader range of images from across the entire health system to make better and informed decisions when it comes to their clients care.  Also, as the system continues to expand in size and scope, more advanced analytics will be available to improve the progress of treating patients.

This means administrators of PACS and VNA play a bigger role, making sure delivery of performance to the point of care and meeting more stringent requirements for images, including availability, business continuity and compliance.  This means dealing with capacity growth while making sure that images are readily available and not stored in an archive that is inaccessible or unable to meet the performance requirements of the image and viewer.  They must also align their systems to their customer needs, be it current or future customers.

How all-flash storage can help

Legacy spinning disk arrays do not have the performance level to meet the demands of today’s enterprise imaging solutions unless they are replaced or upgraded.  Hybrid systems have been tried by some organizations using flash as cache or as one of several storage tiers.  However these solutions failed to deliver consistent performance needed for the PACS and VNA systems making it very difficult on the part of the administrators during its operations.  This makes it clear that to optimally run these systems, single-tiered all-flash storage solutions is the only viable option.  Below are some of the key benefits in using an all flash array

Simplified manageability

An all-flash array will typically mean faster deployments, simpler scaling and less complex ongoing management and maintenance. With the right all-flash platform, administrators can use automation to eliminate a wide range of manual tasks— with no need to ever undertake an expensive and risky forklift upgrade.

A single storage tier

This is valuable from a number of perspectives. In terms of performance, using a single tier of high-performance storage means that images are always available and on storage that can ensure quick and easy access. In terms of manageability, a single tier eliminates manual processes and the myriad tasks involved in managing the cache. In terms of cost effectiveness, a single storage tier means no need to manage archives and older storage platforms that are becoming obsolete.

A future-proof infrastructure

All-flash storage is clearly the future for PACS and VNA systems, so there is really no point in waiting. With all-flash storage, PACS and VNA systems can deliver major improvements in performance, agility, availability and manageability. With the right solution, administrators can stay current with the latest technology without having to replace infrastructure and migrate applications, images and data. In addition, flash storage is the only storage platform that can deliver the performance required for modern initiatives such as big data analytics, machine learning and radiomics.

To learn more about PACS and VNA solutions with Pure Storage, you may check this link here.  If you want to learn more about all-flash storage, you can visit our Pure Storage product page or contact us directly at 893-9515.

Manage your Data and Analyze your Data Effortlessly and Efficiently with Pure Storage and Oracle®

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Manage your Data and Analyze your Data Effortlessly and Efficiently with Pure Storage and Oracle®

In today’s business, storing data properly has become business critical.  Analyzing the right data against other data types (internal or by global standards) can be key in improving your business and putting it in the right direction.  This process is known as Digital Transformation.  To begin the transformation, companies must be able to store, access and analyze their data efficiently and as fast as possible so that they can gain insights before their competition does.  Just asked yourself, are you analyzing your business data like customer support emails or their chat logs?  If not it would be best if you started now before your competitors do.  Below is a simple guide to mapping your data with data management application Oracle®:

  1. Data value starts with operational data (transactions), structured data stored in Oracle® Database.
  2. Data becomes more valuable with the addition of data warehousing and business intelligence to provide descriptive analysis of your business based on historical data.
  3. Data value is greatest when you combine all of your data assets — structured and unstructured — to gather predictive and prescriptive analytics from different sources, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and other application data to fully participate in the era of digital transformation.

Below are ways in which Pure Storage can help your infrastructure make Oracle® effortless and efficient when analyzing your data:

Simplicity

  • All-flash solutions take half as long to deploy as other storage solutions and with Pure Storage’s solution, you can be sure of its simplicity and validity as they have been fully tested and validated.
  • Fast and efficient Pure Storage snapshots let you automate the copy, clone, and refresh processes of an Oracle® database and reduce the time to copy and clone up to 90%.
  • Pure Storage solutions let you run Oracle® databases for development, test, quality assurance (QA), and production for online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads on the same Pure Storage platform.

 

Data Reduction

  • Pure Storage solutions include both in-line lossless deduplication and compression for ultimate data reduction, which can help data reduction of 3 – 5 times the conventional Oracle® data types — such as number, date, char, and varchar.
  • By running your Oracle® solutions on Pure Storage, you not only compress data to lower its footprint and reduce storage needs, you also do away with the need for Oracle® compression.

Performance

  • Pure Storage all-flash solutions improve performance by orders of magnitude, with sub-millisecond latency, no disruptions, and no effect on performance for upgrades or maintenance.
  • Pure Storage uses flash instead of disks, which eliminates the performance delays caused by the inherent latency of disk storage, which means you can run Oracle® OLTP and OLAP solutions in parallel on the same Pure Storage all-flash storage platform.

Click here to learn more about Pure Storage on Oracle®, to learn more about Pure Storage visit our product page or contact us at 893-9515!

Migrate your Business to SAP HANA with the affordable SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering

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Migrate your Business to SAP HANA with the affordable SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering

What is SAP HANA?

Deployable on premise or in the cloud, SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that lets you accelerate business processes, deliver more business intelligence, and simplify your IT environment. By providing the foundation for all your data needs, SAP HANA removes the burden of maintaining separate legacy systems and siloed data, so you can run live and make better business decisions in the new digital economy.

In summary, your company will be able to simplify its IT with one platform for trans-analytic applications.  This means that you will be able to analyze live data to support real-time business while at the same time reduce data redundancy, hardware and IT operations.  You will also be able to modernize your data centre with flexible SAP HANA deployment options, be it public or private cloud.  With SAP HANA, some companies are seeing 575% five-year  ROI by increasing innovation and decreasing data management costs.

If SAP HANA is so beneficial, why is it not a standard?

Even with all the business benefits that SAP HANA can provide, it is still placed on a company’s wish list rather than their next purchase.  Why you may ask?  Price.  The expense for an initial migration project for SAP HANA can cost the company over $2 million when things such as deployment, staff, hardware and licensing are considered.  Even with all its benefits, it is very hard to justify anything with that kind of cost behind it.  However, it is projected that by 2025 that SAP HANA will be a must have business solution, whether or not the company can justify the expense.  You must also take into consideration that just because your company is not getting SAP HANA that your competition will not.

Here is where SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering on an all-flash infrastructure comes in.  Be able to migrate to SAP HANA and gain the benefits of its real-time insights almost immediately without paying the potentially limiting upfront and ongoing costs.

S AP HANA Dynamic Tiering is an add-on for the SAP HANA database.  It allows less frequently used data (warm data) to be moved from the main in-memory SAP HANA database into extended storage.  Using extended storage can dramatically reduce costs by decreasing the size of the SAP HANA database – thereby lowering maintenance, hardware, and software/licensing costs.  When the extended storage is an all-flash infrastructure, performance loss can be minimized compared to keeping all date in SAP HANA itself.

Pure Storage tested the cost and performance impacts of running SAP HANA with SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering on their Pure Storage FlashStack converged-infrastructure solution to see if it was possible to save organizations millions of dollars while still being able to realize all of its benefits.  The results?  Organizations that run SAP HANA with SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering on Pure Storage’s all-flash infrastructure were able to quickly and easily start using SAP HANA at a lower cost (up to 75% lower) while still obtaining performance on par as if running SAP HANA on its own.  As a bonus, with Pure Storage all-flash solution and Pure Storage’s collaboration with SAP, organizations will be ready and able to reduce the overall in-memory data footprint and offload less frequently used war data on to all-flash technology while still obtaining high performance with future SAP HANA capabilities, be it the capabilities of SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering or something else.

To learn more about the Pure Storage test, please read this article for a more in-depth study.  If you want to learn more about Pure Storage, you can visit our product page or call us at 893-9515.

CT Link signs up to be a partner of Pure Storage!

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CT Link signs up to be a partner of Pure Storage!

All-flash arrays (AFAs) are now the next step when it comes to improving storage for enterprises as traditional solutions are now becoming less effective.  AFAs can help enable unprecedented data-mobility speeds that will allow data to be shared and accessed across functions as well as prevent spikes in latency.  These are just a few benefits that AFAs can provide to enterprise grade businesses.

To help bring these solutions to our clients, CT Link Systems, Inc. has become a partner for Pure Storage in the Philippines.

Who is Pure Storage?

Pure Storage is a data storage company that was founded in 2009 by John Hayes and John Colgrove. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has operations in over 40 countries around the world. Pure Storage’s mission is to provide businesses with innovative data storage solutions that are faster, more efficient, and more reliable than traditional storage methods.

Pure Storage’s flagship product is the FlashArray, an all-flash storage solution that uses flash memory to store data instead of traditional hard drives. Flash memory is faster, more reliable, and more efficient than traditional hard drives, which makes Pure Storage’s solutions ideal for businesses that require fast and reliable access to their data.

Pure Storage provides businesses with cutting-edge data storage solutions that are designed to be faster, more efficient, and more reliable than traditional storage methods. Pure Storage’s solutions are based on the principles of all-flash storage, which uses flash memory to store data instead of traditional hard drives.

One of the primary advantages of all-flash storage is speed. Because flash memory is much faster than traditional hard drives, businesses can access their data much more quickly. This is especially important for businesses that require real-time access to their data, such as those in the financial industry.

In addition to speed, all-flash storage is also more efficient than traditional storage methods. Because flash memory uses less power than traditional hard drives, businesses can save money on their energy bills while still maintaining fast and reliable access to their data.

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