Sun Architecture Optimization Service for Storage

Architecture Optimization Service

When was the last time you took a look at your storage architecture from a fresh perspective? With demanding daily activities, it's easy to become bogged down with missed backups, sluggish performance and user frustrations. But not to worry, with Sun, you can fix your storage problems. Get a detailed analysis of your storage capacity. See what's working and what's not. Review processes. And uncover ways to maximize storage utilization. By tying IT strategies to your business objectives, Sun helps you optimize storage while driving your bottom line.


Key Benefits

  • Improve storage performance and reduce costs
  • Enhance data protection and security to reduce risks
  • Meet data retention requirements and enhance access and recovery
  • Maximize your investment in storage while aligning costs and risks
  • Analyze current storage environment while planning for data growth

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The Process:

Determine current state of storage infrastructure

Includes a review of people, capabilities and processes; identification of business priorities; collection of data; and assessment of future needs.

Analyze and formulate optimization recommendations

A more detailed discovery and assessment is performed. Recommendations are designed around structured data, unstructured data and hybrid file systems. Comparison of interview results are also made with industry best practices and Sun peer database.

Recommend solutions for optimizing storage architecture

Receive recommended steps and timetable for improving the reliability, utilization and performance of your storage infrastructure.


Offerings

Utilizing proven methodologies for assessment, design, and implementation the Sun Architecture Optimization Service for Storage offers a deep analysis of the storage capabilities, processes, capacity and management of your storage infrastructure. The end result of this review is a list of actionable steps you can take to improve the reliability, utilization, and performance of your storage subsystems.

For those who are interested in only a high level evaluation of their current storage challenges a more cursory review of their storage architecture can be provided through an optimization option called the Sun Storage Health Check. The Storage Health Check points out high level potential areas for improvement without making an depth analysis. The Storage Health Check is intended to provide a timely "check up" on storage challenges when a deeper analysis may not be required. As an added convenience, the Storage Health Check may be planned at regularly scheduled annual or semi-annual intervals depending on the complexity, growth and frequency of change facing the customer in the data center.

When a deeper analysis is called for, the Sun Architecture Optimization Service for Storage is accomplished using the steps outlined below:
Step
Description
Discovery and Inputs Includes a review of the current state of your storage infrastructure, utilization and forecasting, identification of business priorities and assessment of future needs. Includes use of data collection tools, interviews, meta data collection, review of people capabilities, process and technology maturity.

Analysis Interpretation of data results is performed. Our detailed analysis drills down to the file system allowing us to build specific strategies for structured data, unstructured data and hybrid file systems. Comparison of interview results are also made with industry best practices and Sun peer database.

Delivery Recommendations for storage architecture optimization are made. Benchmarking of key areas, priority areas for remediation and future spend are provided. Suggestions for deferred purchases are made along with recommended timetable and knowledge transfer. The result is an actionable roadmap of steps to improve the reliability, utilization and performance of your storage infrastructure.
 
 

Take the Next Step

Contact your local Sun sales representative to learn how Sun Storage Assessment Services can help give clarity and a resolution to your data protection, archive, open storage and storage operational efficiency.

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