Areas of Expertise Storage Strategies

Areas of Expertise

Storage Strategies focuses on enterprise information management strategy, and developing storage-centric information infrastructures, with a goal of delivering the maximum possible cost and other benefits for our clients. Our focus explicitly recognizes the need to put information management issues (and by extension, storage infrastructure issues) at the top of strategic plans. Our key focus areas are a reflection of this storage-centric philosophy:

Enterprise Information Management Strategy

Utility Computing Framework
Information Flow Analysis
Storage Consolidation Strategies
Storage Lifecycle Planning
Managed & Outsourced Storage Services Evaluation

Storage Purchasing & Vendor Management

Storage Product Evaluation & Selection
Storage Vendor Evaluation & Selection
RFP, RFI, RFQ, RFx Process & Document Assistance
Contract, License, & Pricing Negotiation

Storage Assessment

Storage Architecture Assessment
Storage Operations Assessment
Storage Utilization Assessment
Storage Performance Assessment
Storage Availability/Resiliency Assessment

Storage Operations

Storage Operations Assessment
Storage Management Policy Definition
Storage Backup & Recovery
Storage Provisioning
Storage Chargeback Policy
Storage Optimization

Storage Evaluation & Design

Technology Evaluation
Vendor Evaluation
Storage Area Network (SAN) Design & Optimization
Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Design & Optimization

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity

Data Loss Risk Assessment
High Availability Server/Storage Architectures
Server/Storage Clustering
Remote Mirroring and Replication
Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plan Development & Testing

Storage Training

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