Features
Business Benefits |
| Expert Analysis |
We will study your requirements and design the best solution for your storage needs. |
| Increased Productivity |
We specialize in system setup, freeing your team to focus on running your business. |
| Quick Time to Data |
Rapid setup and deployment mean you can take advantage of your Pillar storage system's capabilities faster. |
| Investment Protection |
You have an optimized system to realize a lower TCO right from the start. |
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Areas of Expertise
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| Core Technology |
SAN Implementation
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SAN Implementation of a Pillar-racked, SAN-only Axiom during normal business hours. The service provides complete physical installation plus design of configuration, deploy system functional overview and operational transfer of information. |
NAS Implementation
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NAS implementation of a Pillar-racked, NAS-only Axiom during normal business hours. The service provides complete physical installation plus design of configuration, deployment of system functional overview and operational transfer of information. |
| NAS+SAN Combination Implementation |
NAS+SAN System implementation and deployment during normal business hours. The service provides complete physical installation, implementation, and basic system functionality. |
| Fibre Channel Switch Implementation |
Basic installation of a switch. The service provides physical installation plus configuration of IP and creation of single zone for functional validation. |
| Data Protection Offerings |
| Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Services |
Leverages existing investments in tape libraries, while taking full advantage of disk-based data-protection capabilities such as faster recovery, improved access, and reduced costs. |
| Replication Services / Disaster Recovery / Business Continuance |
Homogeneous Installation/Upgrade
Provides for single-site installation or upgrade of a mixed vendor replication set-up, either Axiom-to-Vendor X target or Vendor X source-to-Axiom target.
Heterogeneous Installation/Upgrade
Provides for single site installation or upgrade of a mixed vendor replication set-up, i.e., Axiom-to-Vendor X target or Vendor X source-to-Axiom target.
Multiple Location (Two-Step) Installation/Upgrade
Supplemental charge for two locations of an AxiomONE Volume Replicator (AVR) implementation for either a heterogeneous or homogeneous configuration. |
| File Replication Using AxiomONE File Replicator (AFR) |
A successful implementation of AFR provides businesses with the ability to perform automated and
secure system-to-system data transfers within the enterprise or with customers.
Design and implementation of File Replication solution, including strategy, policies and procedures, and hardware / software installation during normal business hours. The service provides complete physical installation plus consulting on configuration design, implementation and basic system functional overview. |
| Resident / Onsite Services |
| Resident / Onsite Consultant |
A senior-level consultant is staffed in the customer’s location(s) on a full-time basis to optimize their experience with the Pillar family of products. |
| Custom Services |
| Data Migration |
Provides for the migration of data from the source data environment to the target Axiom data environment.
Data migration services vary significantly based upon the source and target storage subsystems, equipment locations, networked storage topology (NAS or SAN), and most importantly, the allowable downtime, if any, associated with each application in the project.
To ensure successful data migration, the service includes a Planning and Design phase, which
documents the requirements for customer in detail before beginning the actual migration. |
| Backup and Recovery |
Data protection strategies, integration, and implementation. |
| Database I/O Optimization, Database Configuration, and Performance Tuning |
- Analyze performance data on the LUNs presented on the host
- Identify where the data files, redo logs, archive logs, etc. reside
- Analysis on internal database statistics including data file utilization
- Parse information to determine Premium, High, Medium, and Low priority for Axiom target configuration and data migration, providing the best performance and lowest amount of disk contention
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| Data Classification / Regulatory Compliance |
Work with customer to classify the existing data that’s moving to the Axiom (based upon desired IOPS and MB/s as well as hours of service).
This is needed to design the Performance Dynamics settings for the data and lends itself well to Regulatory Compliance – data classification assists with regulations mandating specific data permanence, retention, security, and disposal requirements. |
| Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) |
This goes hand-in-hand with Data Classification services to determine data "value" strategies and policy-based management for data.
This also determines how to manage data to simplify migration of older, less accessed data from higher Performance Dynamics settings to lower Performance Dynamics settings. |
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