Consolidated Storage Strategies


The Enterprise Systems and Storage Group combines the three facets of hardware, software and consulting, to design and deliver an effective consolidated storage strategy for our customers. We have helped many of our customers make the transition from direct-attached to SAN/NAS storage. The benefits that are realized from this migration to a shared pool of disk drives – are lower costs, simpler expansion and greatly improved utilization of systems and personnel. A consolidated storage strategy will typically lead to a smaller number of file servers, which has an obvious impact on your capital and operating costs. There is also an immediate impact on the efficiency and ease with which the data can now be managed. A consolidated storage strategy will lend itself to the implementation of an efficient backup and recovery strategy. Using updated Ultrium or sDLT technology and leveraging the Fibre Channel network installed for the SAN, customers can finally get a handle on the backup and business continuity challenges they face. Our core solution set centers around the EVA and MSA products from Hewlett Packard. We also have complete competence with Brocade switch products, OpenView Data Protector software, and the data migration strategies to move from DAS to SAN.

Our SAN customers have achieved

• Better utilization of their storage capacity
• Ability to easily handle expected or unexpected data growth
• More efficient management of their data
• Easier implementation of a backup and restore strategy
• Easier implementation of a disaster recovery or business continuance strategy
• Ability to implement VMware’s Vmotion for a cost effective DR strategy
• Less downtime, lower costs