Storage

The decision to implement a shared storage solution involves many more stages than just simply installing disks. Fundamentally, you are developing a realistic infrastructure strategy that is aligned to the overall business strategy and its requirements.

With the many offerings available from different vendors, it is important that you have someone you can rely upon to provide clarity on the vendor hype, ensuring that the proposed solution is the best solution for your company. Diaxion's storage services will help you achieve the full benefits of your storage solution investments, significantly reduce IT overhead in managing storage equipment and provide assurance of data availability, reliability and security through the right strategy and architecture design.

Diaxion storage professionals have the expertise, experience, certifications and change management tools required for high-quality implementations. We provide you a quality range of services throughout the entire lifecycle of your storage deployment that include:

  • Strategy Development / review

  • Requirements definition

  • Design / Health Check

  • Storage vendor selection

  • RFP / Tender creation / evaluation

  • Pre Implementation Workshops

  • Implementation, Integration and Storage Strategies Services

  • Storage Health Check Services

Pre Implementation Workshops

Diaxion will help ensure you achieve the full benefits of your storage solution through our pre-implementation workshop. The workshop will:

  • Analyse your current infrastructure
  • Ensure that your current environment is performing as effectively as possible
  • Assist with identifying your storage-related business and IT requirements, both long term and short term
  • Provide input into your business case to justify your future storage investments
  • Help identify any technical obstacles with implementing a SAN / NAS into your environment

Implementation, Integration and Storage Strategies Services

Diaxion storage consultants provide an array of services that assist clients with the management of their storage infrastructure. These include services such as:

  • Storage infrastructure design

  • Performance tuning and capacity planning

  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

  • Storage Consolidation

  • Point-in-time non-disruptive backups to disk or tape

  • Virtualisation

  • Wide Area File Services

  • Data Profiling

  • Nearline and archival systems

  • Ongoing performance monitoring and troubleshooting

  • Data migration

Storage Health Check Service

Diaxion’s storage health check’s review current storage infrastructure and look at critical areas such as availability and general performance, capacity utilisation, infrastructure conformance to best practices, governance, documentation and ROI performance.

The health check also provides a list of remediation steps prioritorised to your business need and risk. The remediation steps will cover such areas as governance, design, technical implementation and standard documentation where appropriate.

Diaxion documentation and process standards can be leveraged by our clients as desired in order to aid in progressing their storage management in house.