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Corporate information is driving a new focus on data storage. Current estimates are that between 40% and 50% of total IT dollars are being spent on storage. The Internet, e-commerce, email, document management, data warehousing, enterprise resource planning and other data-intensive applications fuel this rise in storage requirements.
Disks continue to decrease in price and increase in capacity. The challenge is how to minimize your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while maximizing the integrity and security of your corporate information assets.
Storage Area Networks (SAN) create a dedicated network, focusing on creating universal “any to any” connectivity between storage and servers. Zycom Technology has a dedicated SAN practice with the expertise and strategic alliances to provide you with an optimum storage solution. From SAN architecture through to turnkey storage management solutions, our storage experts can provide you with solutions that deliver.
As with any advanced technology delivered by Zycom Technology, we begin the solution by crafting a needs assessment. Our storage experts will gather information on your organization and its storage needs. Variables such as number of operating systems, current storage levels, user usage patterns, storage performance and anticipated storage growth are defined and examined.
Next, through our process of careful analysis, we help you define your organization's key needs, and those of your users. We assist you in establishing a technical definition, and assist in defining a storage budget.
Lastly, Zycom Technology experts work with the best of breed in the industry to design SAN storage architecture that will grow with your organization and provide the highest level of reliability. The solution will be the most economical to implement and provide the least disruption to your company as it continues to grow.
SANs are destined to be a core technology solution in every enterprise, allowing companies to design centrally managed data centers that interconnect far-flung global offices and provide service to all of their servers, regardless of the operating system.
Our SAN solutions combine the best of bus speeds, channel speeds and data integrity with your network's distance benefits to free the main LAN from backup duties that consume valuable bandwidth. Our solution is scalable, allowing increments in capacity without disruptions, while leveraging the existing investments in legacy platforms and existing data. In addition, Zycom Technology's SAN solutions provide centralized control while providing remote data vaulting for disaster recovery. Finally, our SAN solutions offload storage management tasks from application servers and speed up the entire network, ensuring the fastest data access.
Zycom Technology Inc.'s Professional Services Enterprise Storage Assessment includes a complete audit of your organizations current storage infrastructure including; disk and backup hardware/software. Once a complete inventory of the current technology has been collected, a series of workshops and interviews with both business units and information technology will be conducted. The workshops and interviews allow the storage expert to identify strategic business goals and architect a storage infrastructure that not only aligns with the strategic business goals but enhances it.
Final solutions may scale from a simple raid subsystem to a complex infrastructure which may include management appliances, SAN's/NAS heads, fibre channel switching, Host bus adapters, replication software, snap shot capabilities, defragmenters, performance optimization software, clustering, failover, enterprise backup software, ISCI, routers, data shredder and so on.
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