Infrastructure Objectives
Storage Consolidation Data Protection High Availability Information Management Server Consolidation Monitoring & Support
Improve Flexibility
Overview
A key requirement for any organisation is the ability to introduce flexibility by allowing dynamic provisioning of server and storage resources whilst dramatically reducing the time to market for new projects. A centrally managed and highly available pool of storage and server resources is created that can be allocated and expanded with flexibility and ease. File virtualisation helps resolve the management issues arising from the explosive growth of unstructured data.
Introducing a layer of abstraction into the server, storage and file infrastructure enables management resources to be consolidated at a level above the physical device or file location.
Tectrade use a set of standard design tools to help organisations determine the level of maturity in their storage environments and plan improvements:
| Customer Objectives |
Key Architecture Objectives |
| Improve Infrastructure Functionality | Automated tiered storage Vendor agnostic Standardise storage management |
| Improve Resource Utilisation | 50% to over 70% |
| Manage Cost | Better exploit cost advantages of tiered storage |
| Enhanced Management Process Control | Proactive More advanced policy driven processes Dynamic capacity management with some automation |
| Reduced Time to Effect Change | From days to minutes |