Are you challenged by:
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Limited storage architecture and administration experience
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Creating meaningful storage policies to address business objectives
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Being strategic in a reactive support model with few resources
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Developing a plan to stabilize, consolidate, and eventually optimize data storage
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Understanding the best application of the many storage technologies available
As the requirements for data capacity grows within an organization, so does the requirement for performance, accessibility, redundancy, recovery, compliance and many other capabilities that far surpass that of direct attached or locally attached storage. Vipro can help you develop storage strategy based on business requirements, allowing you to optimize data storage and management, while reducing existing IT capital and operational expense.
Storage Assessment Overview
Managing rapidly growing storage environments is an increasingly complex challenge for many organizations. They must be able to deliver the right information to the right place at the right time while also:
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Controlling investments to lower total storage costs
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Minimizing risks in a dynamic data infrastructure
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Leveraging networked storage technologies to maintain or deliver higher-value services and meet increasing
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business requirements
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Remaining compliant and meeting government standards
Today’s enterprise requires a strategic approach to storage that will help maintain IT information assets and maximize the value to your business.
Storage Assessment Benefits
Benefits of completing a Storage Assessment include:
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Reduced capital investment
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Storage consumption
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Storage capacity planning
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Operational efficiency
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Maximum value for your investments
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Data protection
Backup, Recovery and Archiving
Today the market is being flooded with new technologies that address backup, recovery and archiving, presenting organizations with the challenge of understanding what is best for them. Vipro’s storage experts have the capacity to help you establish business requirements for data protection and to evaluate whether these many new technologies are met.
Backup, Recovery and Archiving Benefits
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Online access — Improve information access by keeping data online and readily accessible and reusable.
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Unchanged data archiving — Speed backup and recovery processes by archiving unchanged data.
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Process automation — Save time and money and enable rapid information retrieval with automated archiving processes.
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Regulatory compliance — Preserve important documents, e-mails, and other critical data according to internal rules and external regulations.
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Storage efficiency — Reclaim terabytes of storage capacity by migrating older or infrequently accessed data from primary systems to more cost-effective archival storage.
Storage Implementation Overview
Insight knows that building solutions for data storage can be a complex and time-consuming project. Implementing new storage technology into your environment or simply optimizing the current data storage architecture quickly and to industry best practices can be overwhelming. Our vendor-neutral position allows us to focus on maximizing efficiencies and reducing challenges by choosing solutions that meet your individual needs.
Storage Implementation Benefits
Storage Implementation services help limit complexity, optimize performance and manage growth by creating a cost-effective, scalable and flexible storage infrastructure to:
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Improve the return on your IT investments
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Increase operational efficiency of existing assets
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Reduce service interruption with resilient data architecture
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Introduce strategic solutions into your environment with adaptive flexible infrastructure
Offerings
Vipro’s Storage Implementation Solutions give you the most value from your investments by assuring optimal configuration from industry certified professionals. Insight’s offerings cover the leading industry trends in strategic architecture initiatives:
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Best practice storage area network implementation
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Business continuance and data recovery solutions to meet your data protection objectives
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SAN optimization projects for improved capacity, performance, and stability
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Tiered storage solutions for improved ROI, matching the cost of storage with the value of data
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Storage virtualization providing the capability to centralize SAN management and controls across multiple array subsystems from multiple storage vendors
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Strategy Overview
Ensure uninterrupted continuation of your business with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Strategies. Disaster Recovery ensures that your organization can sustain a loss of your IT infrastructure and resume operations on an alternative site and infrastructure.
This differs from Business Continuity, which ensures that your business can enable your workforce to resume their roles and meet their business and service level agreements in the wake of a disaster.
Natural disasters, aging infrastructures (both external and internal), and acts of terrorism are some of the events that present the threat of disaster to an organization.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Strategy Benefits
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Assure your shareholders that their investment is protected from natural or manmade disaster
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Ensure that your IT infrastructure can sustain the effects of a disaster and resume normal operations
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Ensure that procedures are in place to resume normal business operations at an alternative site
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Ensure that your firm continues to meet service and operating level agreements
Vipro’s Offerings
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Disaster Recovery Strategy Planning – focuses on IT infrastructure
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Business Continuity Strategy Planning – focuses on business policies and procedures
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Consolidated DR/BC Strategy Implementation Planning – focuses on executing a disaster scenario task list