IT Storage Solutions

Is your data shrinking on a year by year basis? In the majority of cases the answer is no and data growth is happening at an alarming rate. Origina have over 10 years experience in providing organisations with innovative IT storage solutions that offer the most efficient and dynamic ways to store data. We provide it storage solutions from all the major vendors such as IBM, EMC, NetApp, Compellent and HP. We work with organisations to make sure their chosen storage provider best meets their requirements. In many cases organisations will have all data sitting on high performance fibre channel disk, despite (on average) 80% of it being inactive data that has not been accessed in months. We take these types of issues into account when designing a new storage environment for our clients.

What is it?

Our storage consultants are recognised industry experts and can work with you to ensure your IT storage solution is designed to suit your needs and integrates with your current ICT infrastructure. We can help you answer the questions around the best type of IT storage solutions for your organisation. Is it SAN or is it NAS? Should we use Fibre Channel, SATA or Solid State Disks (SSD's)? Should I use a tiered storage model and what are the benefits? Should I look at using Storage Virtualisation as part of a Server Virtualisation project? Do I need Data DeDupe?

What are the benefits?

Our IT Storage Solutions deliver the following benefits:

• With many years of experience our consultants can provide invaluable advice on all areas of storage technologies
• Working with our consultancy practice, we can help customers combine the procurement of a new Storage Infrastructure with a Data Management Strategy to help clients ensure that there are policies in place for data from the day it’s created to the day it’s deleted
• We can complete sizing exercises on your current environment to ensure a chosen solution has the necessary IOPS (IO's per second) to meet the performance requirements from your applications. We have seen too many cases where people are sold a particular technology which proves unable to meet the demanding performance requirements of their critical applications

Technologies:

• IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS6000, DS8000, nSeries, TS Libraries, XIV
• Compellent Storage Centre
• EMC Centerra, Celerra
• Quantum StorNext, iX DeDuplication Appliances, Tape Libraries
• Data Domain DeDupe Appliances
• Symantec Hauwei

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