Hitachi Data Systems consultants help organizations evaluate their IT environments for business continuity, storage management, and tiered storage needs.
Assessing business continuity requirements takes expertise that few organizations have in-house. Similar limitations make it difficult for IT professionals to plan a storage architecture that meets their economic requirements or to determine how well their storage management aligns with ITIL best practices.
Hitachi Data Systems consultants offer expertise and proven methodology to help organizations assess their storage infrastructure, operational efficiencies, and risk areas. We develop plans to address risks that are discovered or propose cost-reduction activities for lower operating expenses. And we can help prepare economic justifications for your new initiatives.
Our consultants can also advise you on ways to align your storage infrastructure with your application needs in the most cost-effective and efficient manner. We are experts in tiered storage and other architectural approaches that can help you maximize the utilization of your storage.
Risk Analysis Workshop
Are your organization's information assets well protected? Has your organization adequately identified risk areas? Given budgetary constraints, what type of risk is your organization willing to take?
In today's complex organizations, identifying areas that can adversely impact operations is a challenge. Often an even greater challenge is to articulate these potential risks to senior management so that everyone can understand the trade-offs forced by limited budgets and growing regulatory requirements—before problems occur.
Our Risk Analysis Workshop identifies, ranks, and evaluates risks specific to your business operations and recommends a road map for remediation.
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- Business Continuity Planning Examples Risk Analysis Workshop Outcomes
- Risk Management and Business Continuity Overview and Perspectives
Storage Economics Strategy Service can help you reduce operating expenses
The Storage Economics Strategy Service is designed to help you identify ways to reduce the operating expenses for your storage infrastructure. Our first step is a discovery process to determine what your storage assets are. Next, we assess your business and technical requirements, and then based on that, provide a logical design for the proposed solution, along with an economic model and justification.
Discover, quantify and justify storage infrastructure investments with the Hitachi Storage Economics Strategy Service. Use this up-stream offering to discover, quantify and justify storage infrastructure investments and gain economic benefit or Return on Investment for reducing floor space and power consumption. This service includes: Documented discovery assessment findings, options for future storage design topologies, plus predictive power consumption metrics for each design option with recommendations and roadmap.
An ideal time to enlist the help of the Storage Economics Strategy Service is prior to initiatives, such as storage consolidation and business continuity, when you need to demonstrate the business impact and provide economic justification to your senior management for your plans.
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