Consolidation
Minimise risk & maximise savings through a consolidation solution
Many organisations are struggling to keep the balance of satisfying storage demand from users against the demand from management to reduce costs. Developing a long-term strategy for your storage applications, which includes cost-containment tactics, is fast becoming a mission-critical objective for organisations of all sizes.
The Consolidation Solution
Storage consolidation is the pooling and provisioning of shared storage resources. Rather than having storage directly attached to the servers, a dedicated high-speed network provides access to storage assets on an as-needed basis.
Storage consolidation allows a business to use one system for controlling all servers and storage devices located on a network. All of the data capacity in this system can be managed from a central location, reallocated among applications and users for maximum utilisation of disk space, and easily scaled to respond to growth.
There is a strong business case for storage consolidation, as it enables companies to gain control over escalating storage costs, provides for better utilisation of storage assets and improves the quality of storage services being offered by IT to the enterprise.
Insight’s Offering
Insight’s Storage Consolidation solutions deliver a vendor-independent roadmap to the realisation of the cost, service and risk benefits that are the goal of any organisation considering an overall consolidation strategy. Individual projects and solutions are tailored to the precise business requirements that they seek to fulfil, and can include people, process and alignment as well as technology.
Once the roadmap has been agreed with our experienced, independent strategy consultants, it is then implemented to global industry Best Practice, and can be externally managed or supported to ensure continued adherence to original objectives.
The Benefits
- Reduced/mitigated risk of data loss
- Improved alignment of storage resources to IT in general, resulting in improved alignment between Business and IT
- Demonstrable compliance with both internal and external regulatory standards
- Optimised storage performance and increased network and data availability
- Visible and ongoing cost savings
- Ensured scalability - add capacity and software to grow when needed.
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