Data Storage Optimization
In today's information economy, organizations depend upon their ability to store, retrieve, manipulate, share and manage data in a highly available and secure environment. The amount of stored information is soaring, IT resources and budgets are not. Our experts can enhance control of your storage resources, maximize availability, access and improve your return on investment.
Whether you are struggling to keep up with Governmental Compliance Mandates, Capacity, Performance Demands or Business Conditions that require higher levels of Data Security and Availability, we can help.
Some of the major storage challenges faced by organizations today are:
- Burgeoning storage capabilities
- Ever changing compliance mandates
- Disparate storage subsystems
- Multi-vendor computing environments
- Wasted storage resources
- Inefficiently used data center floor space
- Difficult data migration procedures
- Sluggish system performance
- Underdeveloped disaster recovery capabilities
Whether you need to deploy and provision additional storage capacities or you are looking for increased levels of capacity utilization, our professionals can assist you in determining what solutions will best meet your objectives. Networked storage topologies (SAN, NAS & iSCSI) can bring increased levels of performance, flexibility, simplification, resource utilization, data availability and disaster recovery capabilities to your organization.
We'll help you determine which technologies and solutions are best suited to address your business needs and deliver the best Return on Assets and Return on IT Investment.
- Virtualization – Server, Disk, Network and Tape
- Integrating Data Security and Compliance into your Data Storage Strategy
- Storage Design and Architecture
- Data Migration Services
- Storage Audits and Assessments
- Data Recovery and Backup
- Storage Optimization and Consolidation
Data Storage for VMware Environments
To respond to changing business needs, Razor's clients need to be able to deploy new virtual machines and provision storage for them quickly. With Razor's solutions, you can slash provisioning time by 40% with no impact on servers with our nearly instant, low overhead storage provisioning. Shorten your test and development cycles from weeks to minutes with instantaneous cloning of your virtual machines and by instantly repurposing storage capacity between projects. Quickly adapt to unexpected storage demands with real-time scalability and the flexibility to support any future SAN or NAS projects (FC, iSCSI, NFS, or CIFS). Shorten your test and development cycles by instantly repurposing storage capacity between projects.
Manage Risk
Protect your virtual infrastructure and your data with near-instantaneous backup and recovery that doesn't impact performance. With our solutions, you can recover virtual machines twice as fast as you can with our competitors in VMware environments. Protect more of your data affordably while delivering higher levels of application availability with our network- and storage efficient disaster recovery solutions. Speed your ability to fail over and perform frequent non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery through our integration with VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Maximize Storage Utilization
Razor's data storage solutions for virtual server and desktop environments enable data de-duplication across your primary, backup, and archival storage, reducing your VMware storage requirements by 50% to 90%. We help you further maximize storage utilization in several ways. Thin provisioning can increase average storage utilization above 70%, and Snapshot™ technology reduces storage for backups. These savings will reduce your power, space, and cooling requirements by 50%.
Increase Operational Efficiency
You can empower your VMware administrator to manage storage for virtual machines from provisioning to data protection through policies established by the storage administrator. Ensure recovery of your VM's critical data with application consistent, non-disruptive backups.
Quickly Move From Physical to Virtual
Experience a smooth transition to your optimal infrastructure with our specialized virtualization services. From assessment to implementation and management–our experienced and certified professionals, using proven methodologies and best practices, can help get you where you want to be, efficiently and with no surprises.