Our pre-planning and integration consultancy services include the qualification and successful delivery of multi vendor SAN's. Integrations Systems Boundary Box (TM) approach to Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and Storage Resource Management (SRM) allows you to be able to control the integration of disparate brands into a single storage and backup environment. The fact is the hardest part of Storage installation is liasing with the different brand vendors for the purposes of Integration so the system works properly.

We Have Compatibility Matrices For The Following Branded Hardware

• Dell
• Sun
• HP
• IBM
• Apple
• SGI
• EMC
• Plus many more from previous projects.

We also have certified and qualified consultants in all of these brand products.

Key Considerations

• Total Cost of Ownership
• Consolidation/Growth
• Scalability
• Allocation (Quotas, dynamic reallocation, volume management)
• Original Copy Management
• Availability (multi-pathing, RAID, redundancy)
• Enterprise management
• SAN/NAS solutions
• SRM
• Virtualisation

Our expertise is that we can understand your needs and provide a balanced solution based on our experience from the key considerations above. With certified Brocade and SAN products expertise available our assurance is that we can money back guarantee the success of your storage solution.
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Storage Availability Checklist

• Are you using heterogenous shared file system based servers.
• Has a gap analysis been performed on your network components to determine which should be highly available?
• Are there any single points of failure throughout the storage area network that are part of a critical revenue stream?
• Doyou use hot standby systems to increase availability?
• Does your primary network location employ hot recovery capabilities located at an offsite facility to increase availability, which could fail-over instantly?
• Are you building availability using RAID arrays to eliminate disk drives as a single point of failure?
• Are your databases partitioned and fully redundant to protect data integrity during an outage?
• Do you incorporate off-site computer data storage in your network?
• Have you designated a location for an alternate relocation site for your operations in the event of a disruption?
• Do you incorporate remote journaling?
• Do you use snapshot mirroring?
• Do you use server less backup?
• Do you know your calculated level of availability?