NAS Professional Services

Storage Profiling

A recent survey conducted by Computer Reseller News highlighted the fact that many IT Directors are concerned that their storage suppliers are not doing enough to help them better utilise their existing investments in storage products. NAS are involved within our customer’s IT departments on a daily basis. We are constantly discussing new and innovative ways to address many of the common storage issues as well as how best to ensure that budgets are being allocated wisely on the most effective solution, ensuring savings in time, money and resource.

During the process that we follow prior to making recommendations to our customers regarding storage strategy it is apparent that there is often little appreciation of the way that data is deployed across their enterprise. The customer is aware that data storage requirements are growing but has no real grasp of how the data is deployed and it’s relevance to their organisation.

With this visibility lacking it becomes a major challenge to find and recommend the correct solution that will justify budget allocation and demonstrate a clear and concise ROI to your organisation. After all, why spend more money without first understanding what you have and ensuring it is fully and efficiently utilised?

Storage as a Service
Tactical decisions are made when it comes to purchasing storage products in response to a particular requirement or problem rather than approaching storage as a "service" to their organisation. Storage is added piecemeal thus resulting in disparate "islands" of storage that cost more to manage than they did to buy.

An assessment is required to provide the concrete facts behind your existing data utilisation. This is often known as Data Profiling. It may be carried out in-house by purchasing the relevant tools. However, this approach may be lengthy and expensive due to learning curves and other operational priorities. Worse still, it may not yield maximum benefits if the relevant experience is not present within the organisation.

To provide a faster, more flexible and cost effective approach NAS, one of the UK’s leading data management specialists, offers a professional data profiling service. By collecting information directly from your environment and supplying a full and comprehensive analysis providing a clear insight into your data management system, we are able to offer you the facts on which to base your decisions. Our reporting also makes recommendations for improvements that you need, as opposed to what you may think you need, or for that matter, what you are being sold.

This reporting is invaluable and ensures you have the absolute facts available at your fingertips, making budget allocation and internal justification a pain-free process. You and your team can rest assured that your data management decisions are based on reality and that you have an efficient and effective future-proofed system in place.

The following data statistics form the basis for the report:-