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Efficient, reliable and secure access to electronic information has become one of the most fundamental
requirements for today’s successful enterprise. All aspects of the IT infrastructure must be finely tuned to
ensure that employees have real-time access to the information they need. From applications, to desktop
environments, to networks and servers, the infrastructure must be ready to support the ever increasing
demands of the business. But, without a solid enterprise storage strategy and solution set in place, the rest of
the infrastructure cannot fulfill its function.
Designing, implementing and maintaining an enterprise class storage environment is no simple undertaking.
To be successful, your firm requires a deep level of understanding with respect to existing and future
technologies. You need highly specialized (and, often quite costly) employees who can manage day-to-day
storage operations, and who possess the experience necessary to translate business needs into requirements
for storage capacity. You need to develop policies with respect to near-line and long term storage. You need to
develop and test a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) strategy for your storage environment, and
you need to understand your legislative and industry mandated requirements for data retention.
If you are like many of your peers, you are working with tight budgets and a finite number of resources. As a
result of this situation, many enterprise IT leaders are turning to outside firms for support with their storage
requirements.
Services
Storage Consulting:
- Evaluation of your existing storage configurations, capacity and utilization resulting in the creation of a
detailed roadmap for transformation
- Storage software development and testing (QA, interoperability)
- Virtualized storage solution development and implementation
- Evaluation of your storage policies and procedures against leading compliance regimes
Storage Management (Customer Premises):
Understanding that you have likely invested heavily into your existing storage environment and might simply
want help with day-to-day management, RANSI provides management and care services for storage environments
located in your facilities. Our expertise crosses a wide variety of storage arrays, SAN environments and
operating systems.
Monitoring: 24x7x365 monitoring based upon an agreed to run-book for optimal operation of your storage
environment. Monitoring includes capacity planning for your storage environment.
Management: Includes systems integration and administration, capacity management and upgrades,
managing all “break/fix” and trouble ticket issues to closure, implementing upgrades across all aspects of the
environment, adding additional hosts, etc.
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