Storage Assessment and Strategy
Overview
- More effective use of your storage - as much as 70% of the information an organisation captures may be infrequently, or never, accessed
- Survey of storage, backup assets and processes for an accurate snapshot of your storage infrastructure
- Development of an end-to-end storage strategy to minimise costs and mitigate risk
- Creation of a roadmap for gaining efficiencies from consolidation, virtualisation and file indexing.
- Breadth of expertise including:
- Storage Design
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
- iSCSI
- VTL
- SAN Replication
- Backup & Recovery
- Virtual Storage Arrays.
Business Impact
Every IT department must meet the data management needs of the business, which requires overcoming technical, logistical, and budgetary challenges. Storage teams must keep up with exponential growth whilst simultaneously trying to minimise complexity, costs, and risk. On a business level, organisations also want to enable better collaboration with more efficient data sharing.
Equanet will provide you with an overview of your current storage environment and identify ways to optimise your IT operations so you source your storage more effectively.
Our specialists will work with you to identify storage infrastructure savings and demonstrate how storage management can help you achieve those savings.
A typical assessment identifies savings in the form of:
- Deferred Hardware Costs
- Operational Savings
- Improved Asset Utilisation.
The assessment supports the development of an effi cient, cost-effective solution for any open systems environment, regardless of storage topology, operating environment or storage hardware.
Our Approach
Equanet's Storage Assessment provides you with a holistic approach to storage architectures, combining technology with industry best practices and proven approaches. By carrying out the recommendations, businesses can give users access to the information they need when they need it.
Effective and automated placement of data across varying disk architectures (storage tiers) provides reliable and scalable access to data whilst ensuring capital and operational costs are minimised.
To support the business justification, we will leverage detailed market knowledge, product knowledge, and insight from interviews with key project stakeholders from end-users to executive level. This will be presented to you in a report highlighting:
- Cost Analysis
- Implementation costs, capital and operational expenditure including hardware, software and ongoing implementation and support.
- Benefit Analysis
- Potential managed service and support desk savings, plus areas such as business continuity, datacentre space, support staff redeployment, power and cooling.
- Intangible Benefits
- Improved security, management and control, productivity, disaster recovery, business agility and risk mitigation.
Benefits
The benefits for you and your organisation:
- Reduced storage costs and backup window
- Reduced storage administration
- Increased performance & reliability
- Reduced capital & operational and costs.
Storage Assessment and Strategy
Equanet will provide you with an overview of your current storage environment and identify ways to optimise your IT operations so you source your storage more effectively.
