Storage Consolidation & Virtualization
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While the unit cost of storage is decreasing, the amount of data that businesses need to keep on hand and the cost of managing that data are increasing rapidly. To answer the call for data on demand, but still keep storage affordable, companies are looking for ways to better utilize existing resources. Companies are looking to data storage consolidation & virtualization solutions to increase efficiency, save valuable resources and provide data on demand.
In the past, many organizations tried to solve storage problems by adding additional servers to gain needed storage space. Server consolidation via storage networking brings together the storage portion of these islands into a centralized, easy-to-manage combined data pool.
Our storage experts are available to design and implement data storage consolidation and virtualization solutions. Initial steps include a corporate needs assessment as well as a systems analysis to determine the current storage requirements and location of storage rich applications. Once they have identified the storage environment, a plan is designed to better utilize existing storage and determine the most effective way to consolidate and centrally manage the data.
Increased efficiency, better use of manpower, increased cost-effectiveness and improved data on demand are the immediate potential benefits of data storage and server consolidation solutions.
Storage Virtualization Products & Solutions
Evolving Solutions understands time and cost challenges associated with managing a Storage Area Network based solution. Storage virtualization and Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software can help overcome these challenges.
Storage virtualization products and solutions like (TSM) are designed to help simplify your storage infrastructure, optimize your storage utilization, and enable your business to adapt quickly and dynamically to a variety of environments. Storage virtualization and effective data storage management consolidation can help you more effectively address the task of building a data on demand operating environment.
Evolving Solutions allows you to access storage virtualization products and solutions in a way specific to your environment. Whether you currently have a storage area network or network attached storage, Evolving Solutions will work with your current storage solution to optimize your IT investment costs.
Storage Virtualization is a complete leap into autonomic computing, allowing data on demand through easy data storage access without concern for individual storage infrastructures and all the IT issues involved.
See also: Tivoli Storage Manger, Server Virtualization
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