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StorageTek

StorageTek's solutions provide real business and operational value and can help close the gap between the issues that drive your business and the information you store and manage.

 

Storage Tek can help you balance your key business challenges: drive top-line growth, improve operations while containing costs, reduce risk and enable business continuity.

Many companies today are implementing information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies to help align business value and storage management. ILM provides a practical methodology for aligning storage realities with business priorities. StorageTek has developed a comprehensive suite of products and solutions that help you implement an ILM strategy and drive top-line revenue growth. They span the spectrum of data storage and are supported by the management software that drives the data to the right location at the right time.

StorageTek's solutions integrate the necessary hardware, software and services to protect and manage your business-critical information:

• Data protection solutions help safeguard your dynamic information.
• Intelligent archiving solutions help capture, store, manage and retrieve your fixed content information
• Storage productivity solutions help lower costs and increase operating efficiencies.

Training:

StorageTek offers classes designed to minimize your learning curve, bringing you up to speed on a variety of technologies and storage-related issues. Classes provide instruction for data center management, operations and system administration in mainframe and open system environments. This includes in-depth training on StorageTek software products including ACSLS and Application Storage Manager. Choose from traditional classroom delivery to web-based and/or CD courses. Or customize a training solution to your specific requirements. Classes are offered at StorageTek locations worldwide and can also be delivered at the customer's site.

Consulting:

A sound infrastructure strategy requires time and resources that most IT organizations can't afford to remove from the day-to-day demands of fighting fires and keeping the data center running. GCA's storage and system experts can step back and objectively see the "big picture", understand your specific business issues, and put their knowledge to work, maximizing your investment in StorageTek Solutions.

GCA Storage & System Professionals can provide these "Expert on Demand" Services:

• Assessment & Planning: GCA consultants analyze current and future capacity requirements. Analysis includes projected rates of growth, as well as peak requirements and trends. After a thorough review of the computing environment and business plans, consultants work with your staff to plan capacity needs.
• Architecture Design Services: GCA Architecture Design Services include an analysis of the impact of new technologies on your environment. GCA helps you ensure that new technologies are integrated with the least impact on your operations. GCA offers several design service options. We can assist in developing an overall strategy for the enterprise, or for a specific technology such as SAN, NAS, Clustering, High Availability, and others.
• Implementation & Project Management: GCA can help you implement system and storage projects and plans from start to finish, or assist you only in specific areas where you require added expertise. We can help you complete your projects on time and within budget.
• Performance & Resource Optimization: The storage and systems available in most data centers are drastically underutilized. By better matching existing resources with your requirements, GCA consultants enable you to fully utilize the 'hidden capacity' in your existing infrastructure. Upgrading to your vendor's current version often can provide improved performance and problem fixes, as well as valuable new features, at minimal cost. GCA can install and test upgrades to most popular products with little or no disruption to your daily operations.