Long View consultants begin by conducting a thorough evaluation of your existing storage infrastructure (capacity, performance, availability, security, scalability, etc) that delivers actionable recommendations. Our primary goal is to increase performance, utilization, and efficiency in order to maximize your storage investments.
We use this knowledge to help customers plan their IT resource needs and determine what technology integration, replacement and upgrade opportunities exist and when to adopt new technologies and associated services. This includes the development of disaster recovery and business continuity plans, all reviewed as part of a continuous cycle of customer service improvement and ever-increasing business value to meet the service levels required by the client.
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Server and storage consolidation can lower costs and improve service quality. Recent client engagements have shown reductions in server and storage management costs of 10-35%, with 50-75% savings on maintenance costs.
Why Partner with Long View?
- We have a proven reputation for excellence in delivering complete technology solutions on a foundation of industry best practice.
- Our storage solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and focus on core competencies and revenue building activities.
- Long View has the skilled experts and industry experience to effectively engage global, enterprise-class storage solutions. Our team brings a mature understanding of risk and impact analysis—this is a key enabler in providing reliable and effective solution design and delivery.
- Project management support is available for every engagement.
- Our Storage specialists are able to mobilize quickly for emergencies or rapid deployment.
- We have the depth of expertise (people - more than 750 consultants) and offer a broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more.
- As an EMC Proven Partner, we are trained and authorized to consult on EMC projects.
- We are the first and only authorized EMC VCE partner in Western Canada.
Long View Storage Offerings
- Storage Area Network (SAN) – storage consolidation and resource sharing to provide storage pools that meet various performance requirements.
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) – utilizes standard network protocols and transports to share storage amongst a number of consumers such as servers, applications or end users.
- Data Protection – refers to hardware, software and processes aimed at storage and recovery of data from a specific point of time.
- Data Classification – allows organizations to understand and manage information that enables operations. Recent initiatives such as regulatory compliance and legal discovery are now integrated with previous data management products, such as hierarchical storage management and archiving, to create a portfolio of solutions.
- Optimization – detailed performance metrics an organization needs to ensure that system configurations and capacity maintain peak efficiency in order to meet the service levels required by the business.
- Data Management
- Capacity Management
Certifications
- NetApp Certified (ASAP, NACP, NASP, NCDA), EMC Certified, and HP (MASE) Certified
Long View Storage – Ensure Highly Secure, Available Data
As traditional data centers reach the limits of their capacity, the combination of high maintenance and support costs with low resource utilization is a recipe for inefficiency. At the same time, as corporate data communication grows exponentially, you need technology that can efficiently archive, access, and retrieve authentic information - at a lower TCO and in compliance with government and industry regulations. As the volume of stored data continues to grow, and the need for energy efficient technologies becomes a higher priority, expert teams that can understand current best practices and emerging technologies are in high demand.
Long View consultants know how to integrate various storage technologies to create the best possible outcomes for our clients.
Benefits of Storage
- Network storage solutions are ideal for organizations that need to manage large amounts of data, have data intensive applications, and require a zero downtime environment.
- Storage technologies from industry-leading manufacturers provide high quality solutions that ensure you can meet your data management needs, helping save time and money.
- Automation technologies and optimized processes improve resource utilization and reduce administration and support costs while improving productivity, promoting growth, and innovation.
- Manage Data not Disks. Centralize and scale down data housing infrastructure.
- Improve efficiency using deduplication and other applications embedded in the OS designed to reduce trouble-shooting and maintenance, increase power and storage efficiency, and reduce energy costs.
- Data protection hardware facilitates recovery in the event of disaster, corruption, or accidental loss while data classification allows organizations to understand and manage information that enables operations.
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