STORAGE

Most companies use online storage to house business-related information. As more information from business functions such as sales, inventory, payroll, engineering, marketing, and human resources is stored online, the efficient acceptance, management and retrieval of this information becomes more critical to the success of the business. By storing data in common devices, companies can also leverage economies of scale, reducing the total cost of data storage.

In an effort to improve business productivity, corporations and even small companies are implementing web and internet applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and email. This move has resulted in the accumulation of large amounts of corporate data, and these voluminous stores of data are critical to a company’s operation.

Large amounts of data require large amounts of storage. Storage Area Networks (SANs) have emerged as the premiere technology for advanced storage requirements. SANs address an IT manager’s needs by providing a scalable, manageable and efficient deployment of mission- critical data.

State of the art storage addresses the following issues experienced with direct attached storage (DAS):

• Difficulty of managing large, distributed islands of storage from multiple locations.
• Complexity of scheduled backups for multiple systems
• Difficulty of preparing for unscheduled outages
• Inability to share storage among multiple systems
• The sheer expense of distributed disk farms

Storage Consolidation: Results Technology is trained and authorized to help develop storage solutions such as Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) to address the need to consolidate and manage the explosive growth of storage. Results can help an organization improve its storage utilization and scalability to deliver high performance storage resources to meet their business application requirements.

Storage Management: Results can help design and deploy storage management solutions to improve storage efficiencies across distributed multi-vendor environments resulting in reduced total cost of ownership and improved utilization of storage resources. The focus is to simplify storage administration with improved cost effectiveness.

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance: Results Technology can design, build and deploy an enterprise class disaster recovery plan that includes such storage technologies as snap copies, clones, data replication, and back-up/recovery software. Results will work with the client’s staff to protect their company in the event of a disaster to ensure 100% business continuance.