STORAGE
Before you can even think about getting more value from your storage dollar, you need to have a
strategy in place. At ISIT we work to recast your existing storage policies into a strategy aimed
squarely at future corporate needs. For us, it means working with you to understand where your
storage needs are growing, which llaborative environments require support and what business
needs drive that owth. ISIT offers a range of storage and data solutions aligned to meet business
needs. We also take the complexity of it with our approach to segment our offering under three
categories – STORE, STRUCTURE and SECURE. Here is a quick verview. Talk to us to take
you further:
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 Storage Consolidation
The most successful enterprises today are those who intelligently manage their information to derive maximum business value.
Information typically held captive on islands of disparate applications across the enterprise fail to provide maximum business value. Data is difficult to access, difficult to share, and cumbersome and costly to protect and manage.ISIT believes consolidation is an important first step in implementing a proper information infrastructure to help enterprises achieve maximum value from their information in the most cost effective manner. With our experts at hand, architecting the right storage architecture, based on a SAN, NAS or iSCSI, achieving simplification of the storage infrastructure, centralisation of it, efficient management of data, optimising resource utilisation and lowering operating costs becomes achievable goals.
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Data Classification
As enterprises implement strategies such Storage Consolidation and Tiered Storage for optimising
their storage infrastructures and lowering costs, the ability to intelligently classify, search and manage
unstructured information becomes essential. However, it is difficult to deliver a consolidation or tiered storage project effectively if the data to be
consolidated is not well understood. ISIT enables enterprises discover, understand and classify their
data as an essential pre-requisite to implementing a proper tiered storage infrastructure.
Offering a combination of software and services that will be used to deliver this solution, classifying
information based on metadata, ISIT can help enterprises understand, classify and manage their data
based on the information that is inside.
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Information Cycle Management
Data needs to be aligned with the appropriate class of storage based on its business value.
Information Lifecycle Management is increasingly becoming a strategy among enterprises to optimise
their infrastructure to lower their operational costs and offering the right service levels to their
application users.
In addition to proper data classification exercise, the true Information Lifecycle Management solution
will offer the ability to automatically migrate data between the various storage tiers based on predefined
policies. ISIT is able to offer a true Information Lifecycle Management solution both
within a single StorageSystem as well as across multiple storage subsystems,also taking care of data archiving and
automatic expiration of data for systematic reclamation of storage capacity.
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Infra structure Virtualisation
IT organisations are increasing the agility and efficiency of their operations by adopting virtualization at all levels of their infrastructure at a rapid pace. Virtualisation is being introduced in their server, storage, application, and desktop environments. Virtualisation enables you to reduce your total cost of storage ownership through intelligent deployment of tiered storage, simplifying management, enabling easy migration or replicate data across heterogeneous storage systems and extending the life of existing storage assets.
- >Server Virtualisation
In line with our core philosophy of helping customers “go green” with their data centers by spending less money on hardware purchases and managing more data with less hardware, ISIT offers server virtualization solutions to optimize customers IT infrastructure, enable business continuity and speed up their software development by automating the setup, sharing and storage of multi-machine configurations. Customers can provision new virtual machines in minutes and react faster to business demands.
->Storage Virtualisation
Storage Virtualisation essentially makes scores of separate hard drives look to be one big storage pool. IT staffers spend less time managing storage devices as management tasks are centralised. ISIT Storage Virtualization solutions simplify today's diverse and complex network storage infrastructures by enabling organisations to manage their heterogeneous storage systems as a single pool, make captive and underutilized storage available to be shared among multiple servers and protect existing investment in storage assets
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Capacity Optimisation (Deduplication)
Companies are now faced with explosive data volumes. Backup windows are shrinking. More
data needs to be backed up in less time and backup images need to be reliably and cost
effectively moved to a DR site. Simply adding more storage and more bandwidth is no longer
acceptable. Enterprises are considering ways to maximise resources and better utilise
technology while containing costs.
ISIT’s experience can help customers do just that. Planning for better storage capacity can not
only helps reduce spends on storage infrastructure, but also improves performance and
reliability of backups and data restoration. Capacity optimisation technologies can enable the
storage of 20-50 times more data on same capacity and makes data backup to disks and
electronic vaulting of backups for disaster recovery a more viable option.
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Data Protection/Back Up/Restore
In looking to build an effective data strategy and structure, the items most likely to top the list
are data protection and governance, compliance and the effective integration of information
security practices into key business and risk management efforts.
Backing up your data might not seem important—until you need to retrieve it. ISIT believes an
effective storage security needs to be a multi-level effort, which includes important aspects like:
- BACKUP TO DISK
- BACKUP TO DISK TO TAPE
- SNAPSHOTS
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Compliance
Historically, it's been standard practice to manage risk, comply with regulations and secure
technological assets through independent, siloed departments. Now organisations are approaching
risk, compliance and security as a single integrated challenge. ISIT works with customers to
mitigate risk of litigation and risk of compliance-based penalties. By automating the enforcement of
compliance directives and audit reports, pre-defined templates can efficiently enable compliance for
common directives like SOX, BASEL II, etc.
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High Availability/Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are processes that help organisations prepare
for disruptive events and ensure that their critical business data always remains highly available.
Our expert involvement in this process can range from overseeing the plan, to providing input and
support, to putting the plan into action during an emergency.
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Database Archiving
Preventing database bloat with archiving helps organisations maintain healthy disk-space capacity
and prevent performance problems. Even though data is growing across organisations, typically
most of this data remains inactive in production systems, where it cripples performance. Many
enterprises are in the midst of compliance initiatives that require the retention of more data for
longer periods of time, as well as consolidation projects that result in significant data growth.
It is time to mandate the need for formulating and activating an archiving strategy rapidly.
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Wan/Application Optimisation
Today's enterprises are highly distributed with a large percentage of the workforce working outside
of corporate headquarters. Technical decision-makers see consolidation as a means to protect,
maintain and administer remote data resources more reliably and cost-effectively. Boosting WAN
throughput therefore remains critical to the success of any enterprise consolidation initiative. Talk
to ISIT to understand how an emerging body of solutions referred to as Wide-Area File Services
(WAFS) or Wide-Area Data Services (WADS) in particular offer a variety of technologies to
optimise bandwidth usage and accelerate throughput over long-distance links.
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Storage as a Service
The Internet has had a profound impact on storage and this trend is defining a new set of
requirements for storage infrastructures and establishing a new set of best practices for
sourcing, building and managing storage environments. The Internet is also spawning a new
dimension within the storage industry itself — Storage as a Service – and given rise to the
storage service provider, who offers the delivery of storage services using the Web as a delivery
vehicle. ISIT is pioneering the delivery of Storage as a Service in the region and can equip your
organisation with the capacity and the ability to manage storage in a scalable fashion. |
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