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Data Storage Management Assessments from Datatrend are ideally suited for enterprise customers with large storage environments, particularly those within security sensitive and data heavy markets such as healthcare and financial services. For many of these organizations, the high costs of complying with increasingly complex regulatory requirements are driving up operating costs, depleting IT budgets and contributing to decreased service levels.

With a Data Storage Management Assessment, you can address these concerns and gain a competitive edge with data center solutions that deliver high-value results, including:

• Increased data security - reduce potential risks caused by inadequate data retention, security and relaxed policies with solutions that ensure data integrity
• Increased operational efficiency - optimize solution performance by assessing the actual technical and financial aspects of the current storage environment
• Reduced costs - reduce current and long-term IT and business costs by addressing areas of inefficient data storage

The assessment identifies opportunities for immediate storage-related performance improvements, and includes analysis and recommendations to optimize data storage management effectiveness. Available across all leading IT platforms, our comprehensive storage assessment includes the following detailed analysis:

Technical Analysis

• Quantify storage capacity, including:
  • Type of storage technology utilized
  • Amount of storage being utilized
  • Unused or unallocated space
  • Areas reaching a critical shortage
  • Remaining file system free space
• Summarize current storage utilization, including:
  • Orphaned, obsolete or forbidden files
  • Network traffic
  • Largest files or directories
• Assess storage backup capabilities, including:
  • Sufficiency of disk space to execute backup
  • Data backup prioritization
  • Effectiveness of current backup schedule
  • Identification of files never backed up

Performance Analysis

• Determine if current storage type is most effective for applications
• Provide overview of service level agreements (SLAs) within organization
• Determine success of current storage environment in meeting required performance levels
• Identify solution scalability needs
• Identify optimal data access times

Financial Analysis

• Summarize current storage hardware and software costs, including:
  • Maintenance, warranty, facility, lease payment costs
• Identify potential solution implementation costs, including:
  • Cost-replacement modeling from current state to future state recommendations
  • Return on Investment (ROI) modeling for recommended changes