Storage Solutions
Data must be effectively managed and protected from loss. The cost of lost data ishigh, and ofteninvaluable. Although many organizations havea form of backup, archive, or disaster recovery plan in place, often times the solution does not adequately meet their needs to restore data within the time frame required, or defined by existing SLA's. It can be also extremelycumbersome to manage.
Data is mission critical and your competitive advantage. Making content available where and when it isneeded contributes to your business success. In many organizations today, storage is doubling every year, and the key challenge is to protect and manage your data cost effectively.
Astera Storage Solutions help identify storage inefficiencies, and to architect and implement new data storage solutions. Astera assesses your current storage environment, and assists organizations with architecting a solution, developing a migration plan, executing the migration, and deploying themanagement tool set required to let the customer monitor and manage the storage environment.
Storage Infrastructure Assessment
The primary objective of the Storage Assessment is to provide a comprehensive framework so that organizations can establish a strategic road map that will identify the components and costs associated with building an executive level business case for their storage needs and solutions. The Storage Assessment is designed to help organizations better understand their unique technology environment, allowing you to effectively plan your storage requirements now and in the future.
The Storage Assessment will provide a comprehensive review of your current data activity as well as valuable information for use in capacity planning. Upon completion of the Assessment, you will receive a comprehensive report containing:
- Storage capacity, usage patterns, access trends and history, data classification
- Storage review (i.e Company vs Personal use including data types)
- Documented growth trends to justify capital expenditure
- Government and regulatory requirements for corporate data and your status of compliance
- Recommendations on optimizing your Storage Infrastructure
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Storage Design
Storage Design is a detailed architectural configuration with an associated project plan of how the recommended Storage Solution should be implemented in your organization. The Storage Design includes but is not limited to information such as total storage size and model selection, fabric switch configuration, Redundancy, zoning design, and high-availability. Other solutions that will be integrated with the Storage Solution will also be documented.
Data Migration
Once the decision is made to implement a storage solution, data migration to a centralized storage environment because a critical task, to ensure that you are efficiently leveraging your Storage investment. Astera has the experience and expertise to plan and execute accurately. With a detailed migration plan and defined deliverables, we will work with your IT Staff to execute the migration plan from a direct attached storage to a SAN/NAS environment, ensuring each of the steps outlined in the plan will be completed successfully.
Enterprise Backup
Many organizations find that enterprise backup and recovery can be very problematic, time consuming and often under performs when really needed. Astera's Enterprise backup assessment analyzes and documents the client's current backup environment and provides a set of recommendations. Astera will then assist you in creating a reliable and effective backup and recovery strategy. Our experience in designing backup solutions for environments with heterogeneous platforms, centralized and / or decentralized data sources ensures scalability of the solution and reduces administrative costs, while maximizing backup and restore times.
Storage Recovery
When Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) are measured in minutes rather than hours or days that traditional approaches provide, new and innovative approaches to Storage Recovery must be considered. Our broad experience with SAN, NAS, Data Migration and Point of Timeimaging helps organizations minimize business disruption due to hardware, software or operational failures. Astera offers a complete Disaster Recovery business analysis and planning to help you recover from theunexpected event that could cause serious business disruption.
In order to find out how your organization can benefit from our Storage Solutions, please feel free to contact us and see for yourself the benefits of partnering with Astera for all your storage needs.