Storage

CIO Magazine estimates that storage using direct attached storage (DAS) units account for almost half of a typical IT budget. By implementing a storage area network (SAN), most organizations can reduce the overall storage management budget by 50%! This can represent a reduction of up to 25% in the typical IT budget. It is estimated that 30% of business application downtime results from data storage failures and maintenance. SANs can reduce that significantly while improving overall data management and reducing storage costs.

While these figures are impressive, it may be neither reasonable nor prudent for your organization to fully migrate to a SAN. Some applications are best left using DAS, while others would benefit greatly from a SAN implementation over time, particularly as SAN infrastructure costs continue to rapidly decline. Transcendent has helped architect, implement and manage SANs, allowing our customers to realize the cost reductions and improved management, security, uptime and performance that a proper SAN implementation can provide.

Services - Transcendent provides an array of services to help our customers implement or maximize their storage solutions including:

• Storage and IT Service Management (ITSM) Best Practice Assessments
• Architect, design and implementation of SAN, DAS and NAS storage solutions
• SAN Fabric Design
• Lower cost through use of diskless servers
• High Availability and Business Continuity solutions
• Disaster Recovery
• System Backups
• Provisioning technologies and best practices
• Switch Management
• Storage Management
• Compliance and Regulatory Requirements
• Multi-tiered storage
• Dynamically allocated storage
• Data instant recovery and rollback

Technologies - At Transcendent we are experts in leading storage technologies including:

• Brocade - Switches
• Cisco - MDS Switches
• Compellent – SAN (View just some of the Compellent benefits)
• Xiotech - SAN
• Net Appliances - Filer and Snaplock
• DataDomain - SAN

Contact Us to learn more.