Increasing storage capacity might be the easiest solution to the ever-growing quantities of data, but if you don't know how to maximize your current storage, this approach can quickly lead to a significant investment that is underutilized and disorganized. At Coquina, we help maximize your current resources through various techniques, software, hardware and optimized processes. Storage management processes can deal with local or external storage such as NAS, SAN, USBs, SDDs, HDD, the Cloud, etc. We evaluate your storage needs based on required performance, availability of data, recoverability and capacity.
The most significant expenses when it comes to storage is maintaining and operating the infrastructure. Additional storage investments can be reduced or delayed because the existing storage infrastructure is being used to its fullest.
Storage management systems can help organizations save time through automated tasks and centralized consoles. It can also reduce the number of IT staff needed to operate the storage infrastructure. Storage management can also make virtualized or cloud environments easier to manage from a single location.
One of the main goals of storage management is to improve the performance of the existing storage resources. For example, compressing data can dramatically reduce the amount of storage and improve file transfer speeds. Automatic storage provisioning can reduce the time it takes to provision storage resources.
Optimized storage infrastructures are able to work in real-time and adapt to sudden changes in storage demands. For example, storage replication is a managed service that replicates stored data in real-time. Storage virtualization can also help improve flexibility and reduce wasted storage. Virtualization can create a pool of physical storage from multiple devices into a single logical storage device. Storage capacity can be easily relocated as the business changes needs.
This is probably one of the biggest benefits of storage management. Technologies such as Replication, Snapshot and Mirroring, Migration, and Disaster and Recovery can help achieve higher availability and reliability on data.
At Coquina Systems, our Storage Management Services enable organizations to cope with the growing volume of data and variety of information. From virtualization to multi-tiered architectures and hybrid infrastructures, we help define strategies, design and deploy solutions and help ensure successful ongoing management. We don't just look at the storage infrastructure, we look at how organizations create, share and store data and assess its value to the organization.