Storage Management
Information is the lifeblood of every organization-whether a small and medium enterprise, a large enterprise, or the Federal Government. Employees, customers, partners, and suppliers require varying degrees of access to information dependent upon their unique requirements.
Because today’s technology is complicated, Itex helps IT managers to ensure that their organization’s storage management technology is optimized from a performance and features perspective. We offer you end-to-end consulting, implementation, and support of your storage management solutions.
Advantages of a successful storage management strategy
A successful storage management solution offers enterprises the following advantages:
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Simplified backup and restore policies and procedures
- Improved performance of the data center
- Increased efficiencies in terms of backup windows and service levels
- Reduced costs in terms of storage requirements by moving data to a lower cost storage classifications
Multi-tiered storage to serve every requirement
Itex understands that effective storage infrastructure is based on the principles of consumption and use, through a policy-based architecture that serves and protects information. With manufacturer accreditations in advanced technologies, Itex can help you weigh the advantages and trade-offs of existing and emerging options for business continuity through multi-tiered storage management.
There are four basic classifications for storage, each of which has unique implications for solution architecture.
| Primary Online (always available) |
Critical data and production systems such as real-time transaction processing and mission-critical applications that must be high performance and highly available. |
| Secondary Nearline (readily available) |
Online storage that is less critical for performance and tends to address mirrored copies of primary storage or can represent dated information. |
| Backup and Recovery (readily retrievable) |
Protection and management of information with recovery mechanisms of the critical storage when required. |
| Archival (retrievable) |
Store huge amounts of information such as email records and database files safely for regulations and compliance. |
The expert approach to storage management
Itex prides itself on delivering a multi-tiered offering to help you implement a storage management solution that maps to your unique information lifecycle management (ILM) plans and policies. For example, we provide the following value-added services:
Business continuity and disaster recovery solutions
All of our storage management solutions offer an aspect of business continuity and disaster recovery. Each of the multi-tiered storage classifications describes grades of business continuity and disaster recovery. For successful business continuity, organizations must consider performance issues, policies and procedures, and best practices. Itex is the expert at implementing the solution that maps to your business continuity and disaster rules. We invite you to read our business continuity and disaster recovery section for more information.
Choose Itex to achieve your storage management requirements
- Itex holds ten years of experience in enterprise storage management solutions and a proven track record
of achieving customers’ expectations.
- Itex is the procurement specialist for sourcing and implementing national master standing offer (NMSO) IT products and services supplied to the Federal government, and IT products and services to small to large enterprises that require a trusted technology advisor.
- Itex is certified for most Tier 1 solutions, which means we are the most likely supplier to source and map the correct solution to your specific business requirements. Our goal is to ensure Itex is your first stop and your only stop in obtaining the IT technology and services your enterprise requires.
- Itex continues to add innovative technology to its product portfolio. Our goal is to ensure Itex is ahead of the curve for all of your technology needs.
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“Itex is a key technology advisor and provider. Itex’s capabilities to be responsive, reliable, and knowledgeable have permitted us to expand on our server expertise in two areas: virtualization and WAN optimization, which have resulted in capital cost savings and operational savings.”
-Gregory Atkinson, Network Architect, Infrastructure and Technology Services Division, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada
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