Storage Consolidation

HP Storage Consolidation Overview:

FusionStorm takes a holistic approach to storage consolidation. We evaluate the potential business and financial advantages this strategy offers your organization. We focus not only on technology but on the people and processes that are crucial to your consolidation initiative. We address not only your storage environment but related issues spanning your network, servers and software as well.

FusionStorm’s comprehensive consolidation methodology includes:

• Needs and opportunity assessment: Prioritize objectives for your consolidation effort; explore your specific success criteria
• Architectural planning and documentation: Develop a detailed plan based on your business and IT strategy and current technology trends.
• Investment justification: TCO and ROI modeling tools, readiness analysis and data-gathering methodologies help you build your business case.
• Detailed design: FusionStorm professionals engineer the configurations and technologies for your consolidated environment and create complete transition plans.
• Implementation: Streamline deployment and applications and data migration.
• Management and evolution: FusionStorm can help you self-manage or provide comprehensive or selective outsourcing support.

Storage Consolidation Benefits

• Application Consolidation: Reduce the management complexity and cost of sharing information associated with critical business operations.
• Backup Consolidation: Reduce your backup window and improve backup and restore services.
• Online and SAN Consolidation: Reduce cost, improve asset utilization and boost performance while increased administrator and user productivity.
• Unified Infrastructure Management: Reduce management costs by automating routine tasks such as monitoring, reporting, device discovery and provisioning.
• Utility Ready Storage: Balance the risks and capital costs associated with buying storage.