NAS Professional Services

Consultancy for Storage Networking

NAS consultants have many years hands-on experience of network storage and backup solutions to a wide variety of blue chip companies. Changes or additions to your existing system or the purchase of a new network storage and backup solution, requires expert integration.

We believe that a structured approach to your business needs is all important. That is why we will spend time with you, listening to your issues, requirements and plans for the future. Our consultants are there to reassure you during the early stages of the purchasing process. The consultant will assess, recommend and fully implement your new network storage solutions. Their experience and in-depth knowledge will ensure that your business benefits from the most efficient and effective storage and backup solutions on the market.

Working with "best of breed" technologies, they will ensure that any solutions are installed, tested and seamlessly integrated within your business. They will also recommend appropriate training to ensure that your team have the skills and the knowledge to manage your network storage systems efficiently in the future. We will provide recommendations to suit all stages of your system development to ensure your business systems are safe, flexible, and recoverable and will support growth and development in the future. Most importantly, we will implement the changes required.

From recommendation to installation, training, support and maintenance, our project management consultants will ensure you are completely satisfied with your new system and that you have the necessary skills and tools for effective and efficient management of that system for the future.

Assessment and Planning
Most IT organisations are finding that they must make changes to their storage management strategy to keep pace. But without sound planning, these changes and improvements can actually perpetuate existing problems or cause additional ones to arise.

Architecture Design
After completion of the Capabilities Audit, Requirements Definition, and Gap Analysis, you have the knowledge you need to develop your Storage Architecture Plan. The Storage Architecture Plan enables you to solve any problems identified during the Gap Analysis, and serves as the basis for future technology acquisitions and planning.

Deployment
Planning is only a small piece of implementing new technology, projects, or processes. The implementation phase and ongoing change management are equally important. NAS can help you implement storage projects and plans from start to finish, or assist you only in specific areas where you require added storage expertise.

Optimisation
NAS’s Optimisation Services help you address these issues and more. Our consultants enable you to get the most out of your existing storage investments by helping you improve procedures, fine-tune system configurations, shift resource allocations, and perform software version upgrades.

Knowledge Transfer
Now that you've deployed a SAN or NAS into your environment, does your IT department know how to maximize its use? NAS engineers will educate your staff so they can effectively utilize the investment in storage that you've made.

The unseen cost of data loss includes downtime, lost productivity, reduced customer confidence and time taken to recreate data. In addition, 50% of companies that experience a disastrous loss of data never fully recover and go out of business within 2 years. Balanced against this, you will find the cost of hiring the expertise of NAS compares favourably. Our consultants are also happy to perform health-checks and troubleshooting on your existing network storage systems.

Data Administration
Data Storage and Backup
Disaster Recovery
High Availability
Training
Support and Maintenance
Assessment and Planning

Explosive data growth?

Expanding storage requirements?

Accelerating costs?

The size of data is growing rapidly - in terms of both the size of files and the type of information now stored on electronic media and businesses are now faced with a constant demand for internal and external multi user access to this data. To cope with this demand, adequate, scalable, storage space must be acquired, which can grow with your requirements. The integrity of the data must be maintained to ensure it is up-to-date, and contains the correct information and a company must guard against data loss with effective centralised backup procedures.

In order to implement such procedures most IT organizations are finding that they must make changes to their storage management strategy to keep pace. But without sound planning, these changes and improvements can actually perpetuate existing problems or cause additional ones to arise.

However, budgets are finite and calendars are full. Sound planning 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 centre running. It requires storage experts who can step back and objectively see the "big picture."
Assessment and Planning Services can help.

We believe that a structured approach to your business needs is all important. That is why we will spend time with you, listening to your issues, requirements and plans for the future. Our consultants are there to reassure you during the early stages of the purchasing process. The consultant will assess, recommend and fully implement your new network storage solutions. Their experience and in-depth knowledge will ensure that your business benefits from the most efficient and effective storage and backup solutions on the market.

We provide you with a better understanding of your current environment and a priority list of gaps that must be addressed in order to handle growth and move forward with new projects. In addition, our Storage Proposal will assist organisations looking to make immediate improvements before tackling their overall storage infrastructure.

Working with "best of breed" technologies, they will ensure that any solutions are installed, tested and seamlessly integrated within your business. They will also recommend appropriate training to ensure that your team have the skills and the knowledge to manage your network storage systems efficiently in the future. We will provide recommendations to suit all stages of your system development to ensure your business systems are safe, flexible, and recoverable and will support growth and development in the future. Most importantly, we will implement the changes required.

From recommendation to installation, training, support and maintenance, our project management consultants will ensure you are completely satisfied with your new system and that you have the necessary skills and tools for effective and efficient management of that system for the future.

All contact is treated in confidentiality and addressed on an individual basis, as a solution proven to be excellent for one business may not necessarily fit another's model due to the many external and internal factors associated with both data availability and varying business infrastructures.

Architecture Design

Evaluating Your Overall Storage Management Operation

Gaining a handle on your storage management operation can be an overwhelming task. Most organizations find it difficult to absorb the storage management challenges they currently face, let alone find time for adequate future planning. The Storage Review service provides a high-level review of your current storage management environment and strategy. It highlights current strengths and weaknesses, where you may be at risk, and where you should focus your limited storage budget first for greatest impact. The service helps you tackle that hard-to-answer question of where to begin.

The Storage Review begins with preliminary information gathering, as well as on-site orientation, interviews, and data collection. After analysis of all information collected, NAS consultants deliver their findings on-site via the Storage Review, which includes an assessment of the organization's ability in each of the major storage management areas. The Storage Review also includes recommendations on which steps are most crucial to protecting data and business continuity.

After completion of the Storage Review you have the knowledge you need to develop your Storage Architecture Plan. The Storage Architecture Plan enables you to solve any problems identified during the Storage Review, and serves as the basis for future technology acquisitions and planning. The plan defines all relevant infrastructure components required to support the new strategy, as well as best practices and a properly aligned operational model.

NAS can assist you in developing an overall storage management strategy for the enterprise, or for a specific storage technology such as SAN, backup, near-line storage, off-line storage, and others

Deployment

Planning is only a small piece of implementing new technology, projects, or processes. The implementation phase and ongoing change management are equally important. NAS can help you implement storage projects and plans from start to finish, or assist you only in specific areas where you require added storage expertise. We can help you complete your projects on time and within budget.

The backgrounds of our storage management consultants include enterprise data centre management. This experience enables them to view implementation and management issues not only from an objective, outside-in perspective, but also from the inside-out. Our consultants understand the "real world" pressures surrounding limited budgets and service disruptions, and work with you to develop low-risk implementation plans, as well as low-cost optimisation projects, that are feasible for your organization's budget and schedule

Optimisation

Multiple backup and storage vendors? Tens or even hundreds of thousand of Pounds of unused storage resources? Less than fully operational backup solutions? NAS’s Optimisation Services help you address these issues and more. Our consultants enable you to get the most out of your existing storage investments by helping you improve procedures, fine-tune system configurations, shift resource allocations, and perform software version upgrades.