1. Converged Infrastructure
If you are spending 70% of your resources on maintenance, rather create a converged infrastructure environment. This eliminates costly and complex siloed IT environments by unifying individual stacks of storage, servers and networking into a single virtualised environment. This will allow your business to focus on innovation and driving growth.
2. Storage Virtualisation
Through storage virtualisation, your business can improve asset utilisation and reduce IT costs as virtual resources are consolidated into a single easy-to-manage virtual pool. This will meet the changing needs of applications and the business itself, by enabling administrators to easily change, add, and allocate storage. Management costs can be reduced by 50% and utilisation improved by 300%.
3. Deduplication
Backup solutions that store redundant information over and over again consume unnecessary storage space, electricity and bandwidth; creating a chain of cost and resource inefficiencies that are hindering increased data growth within the organisation.Deduplication eliminates unnecessary data, allowing businesses to speed up recovery and store up to 50 times more backup data, reducing capacity requirements by 95% to improve overall cost.
4. Scalable Storage
Data storage is an issue that faces almost all organisations: as the business grows, so does the amount of data needed to be stored on the network. To handle exponential data growth, invest in extremely scalable, flexible and cost efficient technologies that are easy-to-manage and deliver multi-petabytes of storage capacity.
5. Automated Storage
If wasting 10 hours per week on storage management sounds familiar, why not look into automated storage? This solution provides a coordinated, process-oriented approach that radically simplifies the creation, migration, growth and protection of shared storage. Automated storage solutions can enable your company to assign time-intensive or repetitive storage operations to a prescribed procedure that can be initiated by the command of a storage administrator.
6. Unified Infrastructure Management
Are you experiencing volatile data availability and wasting money and administrative time on maintaining infrastructure? Unified infrastructure management simplifies operations by allowing businesses to monitor and control both physical and virtual environments side-by-side from a single platform.
7. Data Tiering
Maximising enterprise data storage capacity is more important than ever before. With the majority of storage budgets unable to keep pace with data growth rates, companies need to find ways to reduce capital and operating expenses. By implementing a tiered storage strategy, your organisation can better balance resources and performance, cutting the cost of future storage purchases by up to half.
8. Energy Efficiency
The word ‘Eskom’ keeping you awake at night? Reduce power consumption by employing an efficient storage approach that minimises overall energy costs and carbon footprint in the data centre.
9. Data Protection
Avoid serious costs associated with an expanding mobile workforce with a solution that backs up and recovers data outside the corporate network, even while working remotely and offline.
10. Disaster Recovery
If lack of visibility into storage operations has exposed your organisation to business risk and major data loss, implement a Storage Resource Management (SRM) solution. This will simplify disaster recovery in a multivendor environment and supports automated recovery of physical and virtual data for heterogeneous storage.
