Alternative Advantage Storage Consulting Services

Alternative Technology (ATI) offers Storage Consulting Services focusing on storage assessments, health checks, remediation services, and SAN design and implementation services.

On the Road to Recovery: Help your customers regain control of their storage costs and plan for the future with a comprehensive Storage Assessment from Alternative Technology.

For IT managers who have significantly increased their storage capacity and are now facing unacceptable operating costs due to increased complexity and underutilized resources, a storage assessment identifies all of the contributing factors to inefficiencies, poor utilization, performance constraints, and low availability and provides specific recommendations for remediation while minimizing operating costs and maximizing ROI.

How Can a Storage Assessment Help?

A storage assessment provides a roadmap to achieving an optimal storage solution that leverages existing resources to the fullest while providing solution recommendations including products and technologies that can scale with future storage requirements in order to meet overall business objectives. ATI’s storage assessment service provides customers with:

  • A complete, independent, objective technical assessment of their entire heterogeneous storage environment.
  • An analysis of how the current storage environment contributes to operating costs and how well it fulfills business needs
  • Specific recommendations that meet current business and technical needs while scaling to meet future needs.

What is involved in a Storage Assessment?

A storage assessment involves a certified storage expert utilizing best practices and industry leading tools

Storage Services Progress
  • Data monitoring and collection including metrics
  • Topology map creation
  • Interviews with key technical personnel and IT management
  • Business / Financial review to create a baseline for ROI calculations
  • Detailed reports containing results of Discovery phase
  • Data Analysis
  • Solution Definition
  • Quotation Creation
  • Description of current storage environment
  • Description of issues identified in Discovery Phase
  • Executive Summary of findings and recommendations
  • Financial justification showing TCO and ROI of recommendations
  • Next steps, follow-up, timeline discussion as appropriate
  

Storage-related Areas of Expertise

ATI also offers design and remediation services. Our storage experts have experience with and/or are certified in a broad range of storage-related products and technologies including:

  • SAN / NAS topologies
  • VMware / Virtualization
  • Lefthand Networks
  • NetApp
  • HP SAN Architecture
  • EMC Storage Arrays

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(pdf)  Download a printable brochure for our Storage Assessment service