The drive for an efficient storage capability has led customers to investigate how to make best use of their current environments and plan for future growth.
The growth of Storage Area Networks (SANs) and the reduced cost of disk has meant that buying more storage is seen as the simplest and cheapest way of dealing with increased demand. This has led to a sharp rise in uncontrolled growth and complexity of storage environments. The ability and cost of managing the increasing amounts of data is proving difficult for IT departments to cope with, despite the falling cost of disk.
In order to address the issue, customers need to look at:
- Improving storage utilisation to slow down the growth of storage.
- Applying storage tiers aligned with recovery options – deploy tiers by application to provide varying cost and performance alternatives consistent with the value of the data.
- Putting in place strong change management processes – use software technologies to implement policy engines, workflow automation to reduce cost and improve responsiveness to new requirements.
- Implementing archiving to save important corporate information, reduce the use of more expensive media and drive down backup/recovery costs. Retain data in line with corporate policies reflecting legal and business requirements.
- Utilising snapshot technologies to reduce back-up windows and drive down recovery times.
- Automating storage management to gain agility and flexibility – investigate chargeback mechanisms so that demands for services can be tempered by budget/affordability considerations.
Morse has an in-depth knowledge of storage that spans all potential needs of an organisation – from inception to the retirement of storage assets. We combine this with our expertise in a range of technologies from the leading storage vendors to create storage solutions that deliver:
- Efficiency in terms of improved storage utilisation
- Reduction in cost and complexity through storage simplification and tiered solutions
- Improved datacentre environments with reduced power, space and cooling
- Informed business decision making through a detailed understanding of the client’s storage estate
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