Storage Assessments and Data Storage Solutions
Storage and data management are constantly changing from a technology perspective. Unconstrained growth of corporate information, a myriad of compliance, disaster recovery and other data protection influences and rapidly converging technologies in the storage layer all are creating a “perfect storm” of challenges for IT strategists and tacticians alike.
Companies that pick the lowest-cost or most specialized point solution for each IT project often find themselves with a very complex and costly management challenge. The operational costs extend beyond the technology into human skill sets; IT processes such as configuration and change management, and even includes unnecessary complexity in the support contract space. These operational complexities begin to weigh down companies abilities to remain agile, and cost-competitive.
Consonus IT Consulting Storage Assessments provide strategic planning for people, process and technologies associated with data, information and storage optimization management. This assessment service identifies and prioritizes customers’ requirements, maps IT technologies and processes to business drivers, and delivers actionable data storage solutions recommendations for improvement.
Types of Consonus Storage Assessments
Storage Assessments bring different types of value to different audiences and situations through the types of problems they can solve:
- Are there inefficiencies in your current use of data storage that if addressed can defer capital expense or reduce operational expense?
- Is the best approach to managing your data storage environment a combination of new technology and outsourced services for the everyday routine?
- How can data storage solutions improve your requirements for data protection including encryption, disaster recovery and general backup recovery?
- Can you reduce your cost of tape, courier, and remote office support through the application of newer data protection technologies?
- Can you improve service levels to your internal and external customers by reducing the impact of backup service or other data management processes?
- Can you support your company’s growth goals over the next 3-5 years with flexible and extensible data storage solutions?
- How can you get a handle on my remote office location backup service?
- How can you reduce or effectively eliminate my backup recovery window?
- How do you establish or meet effective RTO/RPO objectives for local or disaster recovery scenarios?
Benefits of Consonus Storage Assessments
Consonus has been providing customers with data storage solutions expertise for more than ten years. We take a vendor-agnostic approach that considers the business needs of our customers to drive to the most appropriate solutions involving technology, people and process. Our offerings and experience include:
- Enterprise Tiered Storage Optimization Blueprints and Implementation Strategy
- Enterprise Encryption Strategy
- Enterprise Storage Design
- Storage Technology in Support of Disaster Recovery
- Information & Data Lifecycle Management (ILM/DLM)
- Enterprise Backup Assessment
- Archiving and Compliance Storage, Data Center Optimization, and Information Management
