Periodic health checks of your storage technology can help your organization rein in unnecessary equipment purchases.

Proactively Control Your Storage Spending

Despite tighter corporate scrutiny on capital expenditures of every type, storage investments continue to grow as a percentage of the average IT budget as businesses churn out every larger quantities of data and intellectual content. Yet many organizations have not taken the time to pool their storage resources or to align their storage environments with their actual business needs. The result? You may be spending too much money acquiring new assets while existing equipment goes is underutilized. What’s more, you may be supporting a highly complex storage environment that makes it difficult for your business to respond quickly and efficiently to changing business requirements.
Leveraging unmatched delivery experience, CDI’s Storage Assessment Service reduces your storage costs by helping your organization find places it can achieve higher asset utilization. Our team can also ensure your storage architecture is aligned properly with business objectives. Together, we can create a storage environment is less complex and costs less — even while improving your organization’s ability to introduce new applications that will help it gain a competitive edge.

Set the Stage for Consolidation

Is storage sprawl a fact of life in your data center? Chances are, you are overlooking opportunities to decrease the number of storage assets you support. Consolidation can help you reduce hardware expenditures plus the costs associated with ongoing storage management, including software, human resources and network infrastructure. It can also help your organization ratchet back on its overall power consumption and open up precious real estate in your data center

Develop a Complete Data Management, Archiving and Protection Strategy

CDI’s Storage Assessment Service includes 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 recommend potential storage usage enhancements, upgrades, and replacements aimed at reducing expenditures and making the most of your existing infrastructure. During your storage health check, we will:

• Identify inefficiencies and underutilized equipment in your current storage distribution and allocation
• Catalog all storage assets associated with your target server groups, including internal, stranded storage
• Discover and categorize all the data types relied on by your organization along with their role in your day-to-day business, so we can develop recommendations for appropriate storage platforms as well as data management, archival and protection policies
• Evaluate existing storage monitoring and management techniques, tools and methodologies and recommend improvements

You will receive a configuration document that provides a summary of this information, which can be used as an ongoing guide toward improving your strategy.

Why CDI?

With its deep history in data storage and information management, CDI has helped many customers across a wide variety of industries identify, document, and address opportunities for storage consolidation and rationalization. Our team provides world-class knowledge, skills, real-world experience, and the right tools to help your organization accelerate, innovate, and transform the way you manage information.