As data volumes have grown exponentially, most businesses have responded by purchasing more storage hardware and software. Storage investments are growing as a percentage of the average IT budget – even though many organizations have not taken the time to pool their storage resources or align their storage environments to their business needs. The result? You may be spending too much money acquiring new assets while underutilizing existing investments. You may have a highly complex storage environment that makes it difficult to respond quickly and efficiently to changing business requirements.
Leveraging the unmatched delivery experience, CDI’s Storage Assessment Service helps you reduce your storage costs through higher asset utilization and architecture alignment with business requirements. Ultimately, we help create a storage environment with less complexity at a lower cost – all while improving your ability to rapidly address changing business needs.

Why Storage Assessment?
If your organization is like most, you have a large, complex storage environment that has resulted from rapid growth and change. Chances are, there are many opportunities for you to consolidate your storage assets for improving cost-efficiency and utilization. Consolidation can help you reduce not only hardware expenditures, but also the costs associated with ongoing storage management – including software, human resources and network infrastructure.
CDI’s Storage Assessment Service is a comprehensive review of your overall storage infrastructure. Following this consulting service, a storage strategy is developed and designed to address your specific business needs. CDI system architects will make recommendations on potential storage usage enhancements, upgrades, and replacements aimed at reducing expenditures and taking full advantage of existing infrastructure. The following tasks are performed as part of your storage assessment:

	Identification of inefficiencies and waste in current storage distribution and allocation
	Identification of all storage assets associated with our target server groups including internal, stranded storage
	Discovery and categorization of data types, usefulness and criticality in order to develop recommendations for storage platforms and data management, archival and protection policies
	Evaluation of storage monitoring and management techniques, tools and methodologies currently in use and to generate recommendations for improvements.

With a history in data storage and information management, CDI has helped customers identify, document, and address opportunities for storage consolidation and rationalization. CDI’s provides world-class knowledge, skills, experience, and tools to help your organization accelerate, innovate, and transform the way you manage information.

CDI is an IT infrastructure services company that lends knowledge, experience and credibility to helping companies facilitate communications and collaboration between employees, partners and customers around the world.

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