Enhance the return on your increasingly strategic storage investments.
In today's data-driven business environment, effective management of storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) technologies is a critical success factor. But the rapid evolution and growing complexity of these technologies make it difficult to maintain a high-performance, cost-effective storage environment, and to identify emerging capacity, efficiency, and utilization problems.
Count on the seasoned professionals at HP Services to help you implement and manage the efficient, extensible storage infrastructure you need to attain your business goals. Our Storage Optimization Assessment service includes expert capacity and performance analyses, improvement recommendations, and planning assistance designed to help you realize higher returns on your storage investments.
Non-intrusive monitoring - plus expert performance and utilization analysis
An HP Services storage specialist assesses and documents your environment, applying accepted best practices to identify weaknesses that may stand in the way of your business success. The specialist recommends any firmware or other updates required to improve storage-system functionality and eliminate potential faults.
HP's industry-leading storage technology tools and software are used to evaluate your unique storage topology, aid in determining your current storage utilization, and develop custom-tailored solutions. The tools' implementation is architected to your specific change-management guidelines. Non-intrusive monitoring of your storage environment collects performance and usage data, which is carefully evaluated by HP storage experts.
Guidelines and recommendations for storage optimization success
This investment-enhancing service's monitoring and evaluation activities result in solution recommendations clearly outlining immediate activities that can help you:
- Accurately visualize your entire enterprise storage environment.
- Generate a detailed storage inventory for resource management.
- Identify and isolate bottlenecks and other performance problems.
- Predict storage demands; plan more effectively for future performance and capacity requirements.
- Avoid downtime due to capacity shortfalls.
- Decrease wasted storage capacity and bandwidth.
Solution guidelines, as well as key findings on your environment's behavior and health, are documented in a detailed written report and an onsite presentation for your technical staff.
If you desire, HP Services professionals can provide ongoing monitoring and analysis to help you optimize storage performance and utilization.
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