Six storage problems, solved
Virtualisation & Private Cloud
Virtualisation lives and dies on shared storage: consistent latency, non-disruptive operations, and enough headroom for the next wave of VMs. Here is how to choose — and size — the right platform.
Business-Critical Applications
When the database is the business, storage decisions are availability decisions. Tier-1 applications need predictable low latency and a recovery posture that survives a site loss.
File Services & Unstructured Data
Unstructured data is most of what you store and the fastest-growing — file shares, media, logs, datasets. It needs a platform that scales capacity and metadata without becoming a management problem.
Backup & Cyber-Resilience
Backup is no longer about media — it is about whether you can recover when (not if) ransomware hits. The storage tier has to hold a copy attackers cannot reach or alter.
AI & Analytics
AI and analytics are throughput problems: expensive GPUs sit idle if storage cannot feed them. The right platform delivers massive parallel bandwidth to data-hungry pipelines.
Cost-Optimised Enterprise
Not every workload needs the top tier. The art of cost-optimised storage is matching capability to requirement — and using efficiency, capacity flash and consumption models to stretch the budget.
One impartial view across the vendors
We supply them all — so here is where each tends to be strongest. Indicative positioning to orient you; the right pick always comes down to your specific workload.
Indicative, vendor-neutral positioning — not a benchmark. Hitachi VSP One also competes strongly in unified and business-critical tiers.
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Storage solutions — FAQs
Why choose storage by use case instead of by vendor?
Because the workload sets the requirements — latency, throughput, availability, protection, cost — and several vendors can usually meet them. Starting from the use case keeps you honest about what you actually need, then narrows to the platforms that fit. As a partner to every major vendor, Servnet can recommend across HPE, Dell, NetApp, Pure, Lenovo, Nutanix and Hitachi rather than pushing one line.
Which storage vendors does Servnet supply?
The full enterprise field: HPE Alletra, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF/ASA and StorageGRID, Pure FlashArray and FlashBlade, Lenovo ThinkSystem (DG/DM/DE), Nutanix, and Hitachi VSP One — plus entry SAN (HPE MSA, Dell PowerVault) and tape. That breadth is what lets our advice be genuinely vendor-neutral.
How do I size a solution?
Use the Storage Solution Finder: set your capacity, performance (IOPS), workloads and data-protection needs, and it returns an indicative platform recommendation and a request for quote. For a tailored design, our team turns the use case into a validated configuration with verified specs.
Not sure where to start?
Tell the Storage Solution Finder your capacity, performance and protection needs — get an instant, vendor-neutral recommendation and a tailored UK quote.
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