Managed Storage

Are you constantly administering your SAN environment? Do you know when you will need to start thinking about additional capacity or monitor performance? No! Don't worry it isn't unusual. Typically we find that most SAN environments remain largely static with the odd update, additional LUN or host added here and there, and performance is reviewed when it becomes an issue. When requests for new LUNs or additional storage, or a review of performance do come in, and despite vendors stating increased ease of management, we find that customers are hesitant to make changes or have difficulty looking at performance figures, or realise that they have run out of space because they haven't reviewed it for a few weeks or months. And because customers are not administering SANs on a daily basis, over time skills get diluted, which can cause an outage if something is done incorrectly.

What we do:

Origina's Managed Storage allows customers to pass over the responsibility and management of their Storage to a team of professionals that monitor and perform these duties on a daily basis. Because we are working with Storage Systems day in day out, our understanding of Storage Subsystems, associated performance and capacity planning is second to none. This allows customers and their IT staff to concentrate on other areas within IT that are of more benefit to your company.

Whether your environment consists of a few switches and one or two storage subsystems, or you have geographically dispersed sites with data replication, Origina's Managed Storage will leave you knowing that it is in the best capable hands.

What are the benefits?

• Day to day management of storage & SAN administration undertaken by Origina
• Achieve better utilisation of your internal IT team and allow them to concentrate on their main jobs
• Regular performance monitoring & capacity planning
• Elimination of unplanned outages caused by updates from members of internal team with limited SAN skills and knowledge

See related case studies

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• Royal & Sun Alliance Case Study