Storage & Data Management - Storage Optimisation

Effective storage optimisation can significantly improve utilisation of existing storage assets and substantially reduce the financial investment required to sustain service levels and data availability.

Storage Consolidation

Storage consolidation, enabled through innovations in networked switching technology and management tools, allows us to effectively address the issues associated with legacy direct attached storage.

Streamlining an enterprise storage environment typically reduces costs, improves operational efficiency and enables organisations to respond faster to changing market demands. Shared storage arrays, networked storage services, SANs, NAS and consolidated tape systems are all common features of storage consolidation.

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Storage Virtualisation

Storage virtualisation can increase the efficiency of resources by erasing the boundaries of physical storage and enabling all available storage to be managed as a single pool. This enhances the management of data, improves control and efficiently utilises multiple, disparate storage systems to allow IT managers to deploy and optimise these resources dynamically in real time.

From this, storage capacity can be assigned, reallocated, or added as required, regardless of the physical location of the applications or the storage itself. This process typically requires zero downtime, thereby providing maximum availability of business-critical applications.

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Management & Automation

Storage Optimisation is more than just consolidation and virtualisation, in order to deliver maximum value, organisations must ensure system management processes and tools are aligned to the needs of the business. Automation captures and utilises existing best practices to streamline the ongoing management and administration of a storage infrastructure. Costs are cut as system administrators manage more storage and achieve higher levels of performance, availability of data.

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Data De-duplication

Data deduplication is a method for eliminating redundant data from storage, especially from backups. It works by saving a single copy of identical data, and replacing any further instances with pointers back to that one copy. This solution dramatically increases the amount of disk available, making it cost effective and improving recovery times.

Q Associates works with the leading vendors to bring you that latest data de-duplication solutions.

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Virtual Tape Libraries

As data levels grow and backup windows shrink, traditional tape-based backup can't keep pace. To get ahead of business requirements for data protection, you need a solution that boosts performance and reliability without adding complexity. Virtual Tape Libraries can help by making intelligent disk appear as tape, enabling high-speed backup and resort, more efficient tape creation and disaster recovery plus simplified management and implementation.

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