Data Center Services
Network attached storage (NAS) appliance, storage area network (SAN) storage, and direct accessed storage (DAS) planning, design, and selection: assisting in your block and file storage RFP or RPQ process; helping determine which computer storage networking infrastructure, data security, online storage devices, NAS systems, storage subsystem and storage backup systems to purchase for your online data needs.
NAS, SAN, and/or DAS storage consolidation: helping you to aggregate your isolated file NAS systems, storage subsystems and/or SAS and SATA accesed DAS storage into fewer and more manageable storage appliances. For some additional information on this service please see our Storage Magazine article on NAS Consolidation Options. Also for an in depth briefing and tutorial on using NAS and/or SAN storage software and technology as well as full NAS and SAN storage performance rankings please see our NAS or SAN Storage StorIntTM briefings.
Data backup and recovery planning, selection and tuning: helping you decide on your data backup and/or data protection architecture, online backup software, backup systems, backup server, disk and tape backup storage devices, offsite storage, and how to optimize data backup processes.
DR/BC planning, design, selection and testing: helping you define your BC (business continuity) and DR (disaster recovery) options, what data is required on offsite storage and other storage backup to support disaster recovery. Finally helping to define the processes and procedures on how to recover when disaster strikes. For some ideas on planning for DR, please see our Successful DR Testing and Virtual DR presentations and/or other articles in our document archive.
Data storage device or storage array performance tuning: helping you select features/functions to optimize online storage performance, how to configure for the best storage system performance, and to maintain performance over subsystem life. For a complete briefing on storage array performance please review our SAN Storage StorIntTM briefing. Also please see our article Pump Up Array Performance article, presentation, or podcast series for your review. Finally, we report on a number of standard online storage performance benchmarks in our dispatch directory.
Storage virtualization planning, design and selection: helping you plan for design and select the proper storage virtualization solution to fit your needs. For a view on user experience with storage virtualization products read our Storage magazine cover article on Storage Virtualization – Tales from the Trenches.
For data center customers we provide in-depth coverage for storage announcements and new benchmark results discussions in ourStorIntTM Dispatches
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