As data storage growth rates continue to climb, IT managers are under pressure to rein in spending on storage devices, improve capacity utilization, and reduce storage support costs. One way to achieve these goals is through storage consolidation.
Storage consolidation involves the pooling and provisioning of shared storage resources using a networked storage architecture, breaking the direct relationship between servers and storage disks. Storage consolidation can dramatically reduce the cost of maintaining proliferated storage and improve utilization existing storage assets, decreasing the need additional for new storage devices. IT managers can provision or reserve storage for a particular application or server from a management console in a matter of minutes.
IP DataSystems takes a strategic approach to storage consolidation. We can help you develop a storage consolidation plan that reduces the number of physical storage devices, and addresses application, file, archive and compliance data. We can also deploy storage management tools that provide a holistic view of your storage infrastructure. The right storage consolidation strategy creates a continuous improvement process that enables you to control ongoing data storage growth.
