Once you’ve determined your storage goals, it’s time to build a roadmap that details how to get there. Fortunately, organizations today have a wide variety of technologies to choose from to help build smarter, more secure storage solutions. Storage consolidation, virtualization, unified storage, thin provisioning, and deduplication are just a few technologies you can rely on to achieve the efficiency, performance, and reliability your users require.
STORAGE CONSOLIDATION Storage consolidation is an excellent way to reduce costs and gain greater manageability over your data. By consolidating, you can remove excess storage hardware while delivering the same performance and protection to your users. A critical step in any consolidation project is to develop a clear strategy to avoid unnecessary risks during infrastructure moves and data migrations. This ensures your information and applications are available during the consolidation, avoiding unplanned downtime and data loss.
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION Storage virtualization goes hand-in-hand with storage consolidation, and is the perfect catalyst for increased automation and decreased management requirements. By extracting more performance from your existing hardware, you can optimize your efficiency and reduce the costs associated with supplying power and cooling to a large data center footprint. Storage virtualization also enables you to automate disaster recovery and improve application QoS. Perhaps virtualization’s greatest benefit is its ability to deliver seamless scalability when and where you need it most. Your storage requirements will increase as your users adopt next-generation applications and technologies—virtualization enables you
to meet that demand with minimal disruption and expense. For maximum efficiency gains, do your homework and select a storage virtualization solution that complements server virtualization. Having a truly scalable data center is the best way to throttle performance instantly and accurately, letting you pay for the resources you use without wasting any on excess capacity.
DATA RETENTION POLICIES One key strategy to drastically reduce your storage requirements is to create smarter data retention policies. How much data do you really need to keep readily available, and for how long? Reevaluating your retention needs can help you decrease your storage footprint and boost recovery times. Determine what types of data are typically accessed over periods of 30 days, 60 days, and beyond. There’s no point in paying for premium storage for data that is infrequently used. Tiered storage is an excellent way to sort your data and ensure that you’re not devoting expensive resources to dormant or duplicate data.
The Right Solution Starts Here With the right combination of hardware, software, and policies, it’s possible to prepare your organization to deal with today’s data-intensive applications. PC Connection is here to help you meet that challenge with an efficient, reliable storage solution. From our valuable offering of assessments to our team of knowledgeable storage experts, we have the tools and resources to design, plan, and build the right solution for your environment.
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Our Storage Assessment analyzes your storage growth and data files to help you make changes that reduce your costs, shorten backup/recovery times, and improve your overall operational efficiencies. After the Storage Assessment is completed, you will receive a Storage Assessment Report that includes information such as:
• Inventory of storage servers, arrays, and infrastructure • Capacity analysis • Storage usage and alerts
• File categorization data (by type, by most frequently used, by user, by age, etc.)
Your organization can use this data to:
• Measure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Return On Investment (ROI) expectations
• Make decisions regarding regulatory compliance and data retention
• Strategically schedule follow-up projects like storage consolidation, storage virtualization, and tiered storage design and implementation
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