Storage Challenges and EGI Solution Benefits

The storage, availability and protection of vital information assets is always at the top of IT’s agenda. But many companies are suffering from under-utilization, poor performance, and/or unmanageable storage assets. EGI’s advanced storage management options integrate advanced storage technologies with comprehensive performance monitoring to help your company protect valuable data, increase availability and build more flexible storage infrastructures.

Issue
Explosive Data Growth
The age of electronic business is generating massive amounts of data, with exponential growth rates. Regulatory compliance requirements for long-term data archival add to the demand.

Benefit
Expert Storage Planning
EGI can help organizations efficiently manage their rapidly increasing data resources with expert analysis and assessment of storage requirements. Once we have carefully sized your environment and growth rate, our custom solutions ensure you have the optimal storage resources to accommodate your needs and rate of data growth.

Issue
Need to Scale Infrastructure
In an age where organizations move, grow and change, infrastructure inflexibility can be a roadblock to enterprise agility.

Benefit
Flexible, Scalable Storage Solutions
EGI specializes in creating storage solutions designed to scale with your organization’s size and needs as they change. By creating storage solutions that work together seamlessly, we help ensure your enterprise growth and change is hastened, not hampered, by your storage infrastructure.

Issue
Storage Sprawl – Overbought & Underutilized Resources
The typical response to data growth has been to add new resources wherever demand is surging. The long-term consequence can be an abundance of storage hardware that often goes underutilized, is difficult to manage, and inefficient to maintain.

Benefit
Storage Right-Sizing
EGI specializes in “right-sizing” your storage environment to meet your organization’s requirements at the lowest possible TCO. Storage consolidation and Storage Resource Management (SRM) services are just some of the ways we can help you reduce cost and complexity, and to do more with less.

Issue
24x7 Global Access
Global business models, the mobile workforce and online commerce require that enterprises make critical information available 24x7. Making sure your information can be accessed to the right people at the right time – ALL the time – can be a steep challenge.

Benefit
Secure, High-Availability Storage Architectures
EGI can help you design the storage architecture and platform that make this possible, integrating storage with mission critical applications to keep your business up and running, 24x7.

Issue
Regulatory Compliance & Business Continuity
Protecting your enterprise and minimizing risk are major challenges in the era of regulatory compliance, global unrest and consumer rights.

Benefit
Data Security, Privacy & Compliance
EGI help organizations create backup and recovery plans to protect the integrity, permanence and availability of your data, with advanced hardware and software solutions that make both processes faster and more efficient than ever before. And regulatory compliance is supported with advanced data protection and archiving solution strategies.

Issue
Efficient Storage Planning
The huge volumes of data enterprises generate must be managed carefully to optimize availability and cost of storage.

Benefit
Information Lifecycle Management
Managing your data effectively through its full lifecycle is a crucial component of EGI storage strategies. We help ensure data is stored in the most efficient place and form, based on its usage patterns, to maximize efficiency and optimize access and security.