Knowledge ManagementStorage
Understanding what happens to data throughout its lifetime is becoming a critical aspect of effective data management. Identifying the right combination of storage solutions for your business depends upon many factors including your infrastructure, industry-specific requirements and the different ways users need to work with and access critical data now and in the future.
Lumenate's technical consultants have the knowledge and experience to assist you with any type of storage issue from server consolidation and virtualization to the most complex compliancy-related needs.
Lumenate Hierarchy of Needs Methodology:
Solid Storage Infrastructure
First thing first: companies need an infrastructure that utilizes capacity well, maintains reasonable levels of availability and performs consistent backups and restores.
- SAN/NAS
- Networking
- Back-up
- Archive
- Storage Management
Data Classification
Next on the agenda: data needs to be divided by key elements such as value, access speed (both initially and when backup copies must be used), availability, and so on:
- CRM
- Financial
- Flat Files
Storage Tiering
Once the business requirements have been identified, it is time to match up the data with the appropriate tier of storage. It is imperative to perform cost/benefit analysis (TCO and ROI) to help guide the "right" technical solution:
- Enterprise
- Midrange
- Single Array (Fibre Channel, SATA Drive)
- Multi Array (Virtualization)
DLM (Data Life-Cycle Management)
Considered by some to be the "Holy Grail", effective Data Life-Cycle Management has less to do with a particular technical solution and more to do with Policy and Procedures management. Technical solutions can then be used to automate these policy and procedures. Our storage specialists work closely with your team to help you define how to store, manage and backup your data more efficiently and effectively.