Storage Infrastructure Assessment Service

Business Issues

Irrespective of compliance requirements and the emerging energy issues, as a major component of the IT capital investment and operational expenditure budgets the storage infrastructure, its management and the processes surrounding it are critical in meeting, maintaining and enhancing your IT service delivery objectives and business goals.

The Storage Industry is once again full of complex and competing solutions that offer a positive way forward that help organisations address these issues for maximising their budget potential, and following recesssion maximising ROI has never been more important. Through its evolution following continual acquisition of storage resources, inefficiencies and complexity invariably develop in the storage infrastructure. This can make determining the next acquisition, be it, hardware, software or services, by the value it can deliver to your service delivery not an easy task.

Demands on Storage Infrastructure Enhancing Service Delivery Ensuring Business Continuity Reducing Complexity and Cost Providing Future Capacity Complying with Corporate Requirements

As no single vendor can provide the complete range of technology and leadership solutions to manage, operate and evolve the information resources then CIOs and IT Directors must ensure they pull each of these disciplines together to maximise investment returns.

Business Solution

Establishing a strategic prioritised plan that drives an ordered programme of change for Storage addresses these issues and can increase the business value and effectiveness of the infrastructure in delivering IT services.

Through regular (annual) assessment and gap analysis of current storage infrastructure, data management tools, processes and service delivery objectives long term strategy can be rationalised with other strategic Data Centre initiatives. Considered programmes of change can be established with predictable ROI and through benchmarking and maturity modelling, achievement against objectives can be measured and plans adjusted as appropriate.

Using proven consulting methodologies Dimension 85 has developed a non-invasive solution that assesses and benchmarks your IT Storage Infrastructure against business and service delivery objectives, industry best practices and current technology potential.

This vendor and technology-independent Management tool identifies areas of alignment and mis-alignment between the IT storage infrastructure and business requirement, establishes opportunities for service and cost enhancement and presents a set of pragmatic and cost effective recommendations enabling priorities, resources and ROI potential to be identified.

Storage Infrastructure Assessment Delivers

• Capability Maturity analysis of IT storage infrastructure and management processes and resources
• Assessment of capacity, performance and availability and preparedness of recoverability
• Potential enhancement identification and cost-effective recommendations
• Transfer of information that will contribute to future storage investment decisions

Benefits

Regular independent assessment of your storage infrastructure is accepted best practice and can significantly aid in vendor and technology selection process. Further significant benefits include:

• Increased confidence in service delivery.
• Reduced storage-related problems.
• Reduced management overhead of IT Storage infrastructure and data assets.
• Reduced cost and more efficient storage infrastructure.
• Establishes a baseline for future assessment activities.

Register today and find out how Dimension 85 enhances your strategic Storage and Data Infrastructure planning.