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Storage Assessment

For Unix and Windows Based Networks with Server Attached Storage (SAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS), or Storage Area Network (SAN)

Is your data available when you need it?

Are the costs of backing up your data skyrocketing?

If your organization is experiencing difficulties accessing data or completing backups within the designated window, you may need to re-evaluate your storage strategy.

Too often, data classification and management strategies fail to shift with business needs. Yesterday's static data may have become today's regulatory requirement.

ASG Consulting Services' Storage Assessment evaluates your current storage environment for utilization and performance.

Business Benefits

• Evaluate your storage and make specific recommendations on strengths, weaknesses, and needed modifications, improvements, or upgrades.<
• Assist with storage utilization, planning and performance.
• Identify storage single points of failure.
• Identify new storage technologies that can benefit your network.
• Provide information to assist with storage budgeting.
• Help maximize your return on storage technology investment.

The initial (baseline) storage assessment is performed by Advanced Systems Group (ASG) over a two to eight week period depending on your requirements. Follow-up assessments to determine storage changes (improvements or degradation) since the initial assessment are available as an option on a quarterly, semi-annual or annual basis.

Services Included

• Interviews of key Customer personnel regarding storage requirements.
• Identification of Customer’s business storage priorities, needs and constraints.
• Identification of storage single points of failure.
• Identification of storage problems.
• Installation of Sun HighGround Storage Resource Management (SRM) tool (temporary).
• Output of SRM tool, including:
  • Storage maps.
  • Data footprint maps.
  • Storage Total Capacity by Computer.
  • Storage Used Capacity by Computer.
  • Storage Distribution by File Size.
  • Storage Distribution by File Creation Date.
  • Storage Distribution by File Modification Date.
  • Storage Distribution by File Access Date.
  • Storage Distribution by File Vulnerability.
• Written report and oral presentation containing the above information, analysis, and recommendations

Contact us today for more information.