With increased focus on the storage segment, Dell is now concentrating on beefing up its offerings for the storage services segment in India. Dell’s Service Portfolio includes ProConsult, ProManage and ProSupport which offer automated discovery and well defined engagements, Services delivered through the cloud and Support tailored to a business environment. Dell’s Storage consulting Portfolio is also structured around three key points of view namely Storage Consolidation, Storage Optimization and Data Protection. These address the key Storage pain points that the customers are facing.
“The top priority for CIOs is to cut costs and yet achieve maximum storage flexibility and scalability. Data is a strategic asset that must be protected against a wide range of risks and threats, so data protection has become a high-priority objective for enterprises” said Paul Kaeley, Director for Global Storage (Data Management) Consulting Practice, Dell Inc.
According to Gartner findings, nearly 40% of midsize businesses indicated they would like to have 100% of their servers virtualized within three years while 70% believe that they can virtualize all their servers within five years.
There are advantages of Storage Consolidation which include:
- Increased Staff Productivity - Storage Administrators can manage more terabytes of storage in a consolidated environment
- Optimized Availability - SANs provide high data availability for access to business-critical data
- Improved Utilization and Scalability - Disk and Tape utilization can be increased through centralization
- Improved Manageability - Administrators can gain control of the growth of their data and respond to changing business needs.