Storage Infrastructure Assessment
Managing your data growth securely and effectively
Access to mission critical data is your competitive advantage. Making content available where and when needed contributes to your business success. However in many organizations today, storage is doubling every year. A key challenge is to protect and manage your data cost effectively.
Simplyfying your technology decisions
The technology you need to manage information is complex. Astera recommends that you perform a Storage Infrastructure Assessement to better understand your unique technology environment, allowing you to effectively plan for storage requirements now and in the future.
Astera Storage Infrastructure Assessment provides you with a comprehensive review of your current data activity as well as valuable infromation for use in capacity planning. It will also help your organization to ability to manage the challenges surrounding storage requirements such as the following;
- End user space requirements
- Verification if a user is effectively managing their disk space
- Applications requiring additional disk space and their growth patterns
- Documenting your storage resources and how they are being used
Deliverables
Upon completion of the Assessment, your will receive a comprehensive report including information for the following;
- Storage Capacity, usage patterns, access trends / history, data classification
- Storage usage review, company vs. personal use
- Documented growth trends to justify capital expenditures in storage
- Recommendations on optimizing the Storage Infrastructure
Best Practices
Astera uses a proven methodology combined with sophisticated industry tools and technical expertise to identify your existing storage environment and usage patterns. Through effective assessment methodology, Astera can address isssues such as;
- Inventory of storage ressources
- What type of data is being stored, who is the owner, when was it created, modified, or last accessed?
- What are the solutions available for business continuance
Who can benefit?
Astera's Storage Assessment is ideally suited for organizations interested in;
- Consolidating their storage resources
- Gaining a better understanding of their current storage usage
- Looking for current utilisation trends for capacity planning
- Understanding the type of data being stored and its relative importance to business success and availability
- Increasing data storage without increasing management overhead
The recommendations Astera may provide include may include one or any of the following storage technologies;
- Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
- Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- Storage Area Network (SAN)
This is a critical phase leading up to a successful deployment that may enable your organization to;
- Deliver a higher level of service to your user community
- Effectively manage and report on storage usage within the organization
- Optimize the storage infrastructure
- Reduce cost of operations
- Increase customer satisfaction
- Manage enterprise-wide data access
In order to find out how your organization can benefit from a Storage Assessment, please feel free to contact us and see for yourself the benefits of partnering with Astera for all your storage needs.