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As organizations face more data and more management complexity, they are offered a wider variety of potential solutions. The emphasis for the next-generation data center is meeting customer requirements in a sustainable, scalable, and efficient fashion and the key to success is reducing management complexity. Human capital, traditionally measured by operating expense (OpEx), must be used to focus on activities that enable a business to improve its productivity, resourcefulness, and ultimately, bottom line.
Traditional storage systems require lengthy planning, upgrade, and maintenance activities. Trivial tasks, such as increasing capacity, scaling performance, and adding users, often require horizontal scaling and reconfiguring applications. These tasks can result in a disruption of user activities and ultimately, lost productivity and revenue.
OneFS has been designed to simplify administration activities and maintain this simplicity as the overall system scales, as shown in 0. OneFS offers enables you to add performance, capacity, or both in 60 seconds. It also lets you avoid manual data and connection rebalancing with SmartConnect and Autobalance and allow nondisruptive hardware and software upgrades and rollback.