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Storage Resource Management

The confluence of compliance and business requirements are resulting in a burgeoning growth and complexity for information storage demands. This rapid growth and complexity presents many opportunities to better manage storage assets and improve ROI and utilization. A solid Storage Resource Management (SRM) environment can help reduce storage expenditures, storage management costs, compliance and business risk and improve operations and ROI.

Designing a cost-effective, dynamic and manageable storage infrastructure begins with creating a vision, strategy and architecture that guides the design process. DCi’s SRM services provide a comprehensive review of your overall storage infrastructure, develops a business metric based storage strategy, designed to meet your specific business needs. Our system architects use a best practice approach based upon a storage utility mindset and virtualization technologies to recommend storage infrastructure improvements and technology refresh cycles based on business and regulatory requirements and retention practices.

The utility model approach and rational use of virtualization technologies improve IT resource utilization and increase flexibility to adapt to changing requirements and workloads; and are key enablers for infrastructure cost optimization, flexibility and resiliency. With the addition of automation technologies for service-level, policy-based active management, resource efficiency improves dramatically, flexibility can become automatic based on requirements and services can be managed holistically, ensuring high-levels of resiliency. Virtualization and service-level, policy-based automation are building blocks to a real-time infrastructure (RTI).

Our storage resource experts can design and implement an SRM environment geared to improving your ROI, reducing complexity and optimizing your storage management infrastructure and building a RTI.

Storage Resource Management dramatically impacts storage infrastructure total cost of ownership and operation. At DCi we include components like the following in our SRM services:

  • Networked Storage
    • Storage Area Networks (SAN)
    • Network Attached Storage (NAS)
    • Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
    • Tiered Storage
  • High Availability
    • Remote and Local Replication
    • Continuous Snapshot
    • Load Balancing
    • Fault Tolerance and Automated “fail over”
  • Enterprise Level Backup and Recovery
    • Backup to Disk
    • Non disruptive Backup
  • Archiving
    • "Active” archive
  • Virtualization
  • Disaster Recovery
    • Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
    • Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
  • Management and Administration
    • Operating System and Storage Administration
    • Continuous Operations (24x7)
    • Performance and Event management
    • High Availability and Fault Tolerance Event Management
    • Automated Provisioning
    • Utilization Reporting
    • Billing/Chargeback utility capabilities


Enterprise-wide Management

As a full-service IT infrastructure services company, DCi‘s team of experts provides a full suite of services and solutions to meet your network infrastructure objectives.

  • Architecture and Design
  • Implementation Services
  • Assessment Services
  • Managed “Steady State” Support Service
  • Remote Monitoring and Management Services
  • Technology Refresh Options
  • Single Point of Access
  • DCi “Right Sourcing”
  • Continuous Optimization


Our storage resource management service is a foundation stone for our enterprise information technology utility and RTI strategy.