Wringing out the last byte from
your storage infrastructure
Storage infrastructures are notoriously storage optimisation technologies. circle6 Backup assessments to optimise
wasteful. Like electricity transmission Combining storage expertise, backup infrastructures challenged by
over the grid, relatively little raw storage methodology and tools, they aim to data growth and reducing backup
capacity arrives to the consumer - the provide pragmatic advice and maximum windows, and to establish backup
application. After taking into account short-term benefit through short and policies that reduce the amount of data
RAID protection overheads, non- focused service engagements. being backed-up
provisioned storage capacity, and free circle6 Tiered storage assessments that
space within provisioned capacity, Bull’s StoreWay storage integration focus on classifying data and setting
perhaps only half of raw storage division has recently announced a storage and retention policies aligned
capacity is actually being used. When partnership with GlassHouse with the value of the data throughout its
we take a closer look at the data being Technologies Inc., a global provider of lifetime, and facilitating the movement of
stored, the story suddenly gets a lot independent IT infrastructure consulting data between different data tiers from
worse. services, through which the two primary storage to data archive.
companies will jointly deliver storage circle6 Deduplication and provisioning
Too often, a lack of understanding of assessment services throughout assessments to increase the byte
what is being stored makes it Europe. density of stored data
impossible to align storage
infrastructure technologies and costs
with the service levels and retention
policies appropriate to different classes
of data. In absence of a better
alternative, established practice is to
align the storage infrastructure with the
needs of the most demanding data
classes and to store all data on
expensive primary storage … forever.
To compound the problem yet further, a
great deal of stored data is multiple
copies of the same information. File
system data and email attachments are
the major culprits, and data backup
amplifies the problem by an order of
magnitude. It is not unreasonable to
imagine that a single file attached to a
mail distributed to colleagues exists 100
times or more within the organisation on
various mail servers, PCs and backup This partnership combines Bull’s assessment services are based
data sets. GlassHouse’s experience and on methodology and tools that structure
leadership in the storage assessment the assessment process from defining
Many organisations could defer storage field and Bull’s long experience in the scope and objectives of the
capacity upgrades – perhaps for many storage integration. Customers benefit engagement, to auditing the existing
years – simply by addressing these core from GlassHouse’s critical analysis and storage infrastructure, to delivering
problems. Moreover, targeted experience, and from Bull’s market business and technical recommendations
investment of new technologies such as presence with over 8,000 employees and ROI analysis. Storage assessment
deduplication and thin-provisioning can active in over 50 countries, and Bull’s services can help IT managers confront
deliver a lightning ROI. This is an expertise in all aspects of IT their storage challenges through a
interesting value proposition in the infrastructures including open servers, toolbox of techniques including maturity
current economic climate. security, open source, and audits, strategic alignment, financial
Storage assessment services are consulting/integration services. analysis, transformation planning and
increasingly being used by RFP specification.
organisations as a means of identifying Bull's assessment services target the
and quantifying potential storage major areas of potential storage Bernard Aubineau,
economies and the benefits of new economies: StoreWay Consultant, Bull
To find out more about Bull StoreWay,
visit www.bull.com/storage
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