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Storage Consolidation

Storage consolidation is a key step towards developing and maintaining a more flexible and adaptive IT architecture. Growing storage capacity requirements force many companies down the slippery slope into storage sprawl. Storage consolidation helps you regain control of this sprawl and more efficiently and cost-effectively manage your storage growth. Optimus’ storage experts can help you determine the best consolidation option for your data center, using methods such as:

• Platform consolidation-creating a single source of high-performance storage for multiple types of servers
• Centralization-combining storage resources on a SAN
• Integration-moving decentralized data from distributed file systems into a common file system

Employing one of these consolidation methods, or a combination of, gives you an optimized storage environment in which you can do more with less.

Advantages of storage consolidation:

• Simplified storage management
• Helps unlock excess server and storage capacity
• Increases IT staff productivity-you can manage more storage with fewer employees
• Minimizes business disruption for backup and restore operations
• Lowers TCO (total cost of ownership) for storage systems