Focusing on your business needs.

"Our methodologies and vendor agnostic recommendations will help you in the latest storage technologies."

The motivation to commission an Enterprise Storage Assessment (ESA) is typically quite diverse. Reasons often cited range from Performance and Capacity Planning; Systems Management concerns; Data Retention, Protection and Resilience issues and Regulatory Compliance and Operational cost savings through de-commissioning expensive old systems. Our methodologies and vendor agnostic recommendations will assist you in the latest storage technologies.

Every business is reliant on crucial data. Identifying mission critical data and enabling you to eradicate the risks of data loss are major components of the agilIT storage assessment service. The consultants at agilIT will expertly assist you in the evaluation of your storage environment and needs.

Collaboration

Our storage advisors will work with you to assemble data concerning your storage needs using an interactive process based on interviews and workshops. From this assessment, a report will emerge reflecting your current environment and indicating opportunities for improvement. This report will also provide you with a high level vision of the target storage environment that is best suited to your business objectives.

Guaranteed Satisfaction

To ensure complete satisfaction with your migration solution, our storage advisor will provide you with verification of the integrity and operational readiness of your migrated data. They will deliver clear, concise documentation outlining your new configuration and conduct an operational handover to familiarize your staff with your new data layout.

Expertise

Our storage advisors are experienced in providing a complete storage solution that will optimize your mission critical applications, including e-service applications, production control applications, and customer relationship management. Their expertise lies in providing solutions that provide support to current business needs and that meet operational pressures with uninterrupted service levels.

Our advisors take all relevant factors into account and provide a road map to reach your target environment without negative impact on current business needs, thereby improving the total cost of ownership.

Focus on YOUR business needs

Our advisors will collaborate with your IT storage administrators to prepare a comprehensive implementation plan consisting of assessing your environment and determining the optimal migration solution. A strategy will then be tailored to your specific business needs. Detailed implementation and data validation methods are documented for your review and approval prior to execution.

Benefits

• A clear delineation of potential business risks stemming from inadequate storage strategies.
• A review of current investments in people skills, hardware and software.
• A vision of the target storage environment required for a successful future.
• A sophisticated, but simple, pathway towards achieving this vision.
• Highlights of opportunities for improvement with quick returns.

Deliverables

• An assessment of the current environment, including an analysis on the impact of current business objectives on future storage requirements.
• A definition of the overall approach to storage utilization and deployment across the enterprise.
• A detailed explanation of the vision of the target storage environment.
• A recommendation for a high level road map and of immediate steps for quick returns.