Storage Assessment & Resource Analysis
Experienced and accredited ACS specialists will assist with storage management, planning and strategy, carry out upgrades and infrastructure refreshes and analyse your data storage profile, helping you reduce operational costs.
ACS’s storage consultancy analyses, designs, implements, supports and manages devices from a broad spectrum of manufacturers and is extremely experienced in end-to-end storage management, from replication and archiving to data backup and recovery. We place great emphasis on understanding where existing data storage capacity is wasted and are able to assist with the deployment of tools to assist administrators with the day-to-day task of identifying where storage can be released and re-allocated.
Our Storage Resource Analysis service allows you to fully exploit your investment by undertaking a complete, independent data storage assessment that will give you an accurate map of current usage and trends based on historical data. This analysis will pinpoint areas of less than optimal utilisation and extra or unnecessarily allocated storage capacity, highlighting the potential for consolidation across your storage infrastructure for both superior operational efficiency and a significant reduction in TCO.
ACS storage consultants are also highly skilled in associated technologies such as server operating systems, clustering options, high availability and common applications such as databases and backup & recovery products. Our specialists will work with you as part of your team, providing additional skills and a wealth of enterprise experience across the storage technologies you use.
ACS Storage Resource Analysis (SRA) is for you if:
- Your corporate data storage volumes are growing at an unprecedented rate due to rich text, graphics, video and audio
- Compliance dictates that you permanently retain certain files or data securely
- You are unsure as to exactly what data is stored, maintained and faithfully backed up each night and its actual business value
- You are interested in implementing technologies such as data replication, storage consolidation and virtualisation but are concerned about data migration and the continuing provision of existing services
- You are addressing your backup and recovery strategy and would benefit from analysis of your data assets and data storage processes
Key Benefits
- Establish a clear storage strategy
- Understand how to manage your data more efficiently
- Reduce the cost of storage management by maintaining just the data you need
- Implement a consolidated storage infrastructure
- Provide a proven, tested, resilient backup infrastructure
- Improve your adherence to regulatory requirements
To find out more about ACS storage resource analysis, why not arrange for one of our IT consultancy specialists to give you a call - simply complete the form to the right and we’ll be in touch at your convenience.
