Storage Assessment


Our Assessment Approach

RTP Technology employs a powerful combination of people, processes and technology to conduct storage assessments. The better you understand your exponential growth of storage and its associated costs, the better you can manage and plan.

Discovery and Recommendations

By gaining visibility into all the data on your storage network, the RTP Assessment Service provides the foundation you need to intelligently control how your data is managed. We use this knowledge to establish baselines of policies on utilization, tier migration, data protection, and data retention.

This discovery is a multi-phase process which includes:

  • Obtain a detailed understanding of the technical and business issues.

  • Initiate an inventory of the environment within the data center to help determine overall scope of the project.

  • Install software to discover the relationships between hosts, applications and storage systems. Data is collected and correlated using a wide variety of offline and online data sources.

RTP's Data Assessment Service gives you a point-in-time snapshot of your data utilization footprint. This, in turn, gives you the power to plan more effectively for growth, enhance efficiency and potentially lower storage costs.

Other areas of recommendations may include:

  • Storage utilization
  • Thin provisioning
  • Deduplication
  • Review of TCO of storage arrays
  • Tiering considerations
  • NAS versus SAN
  • Benefits of virtualization
  • Storage compliance
  • Review of forward looking technologies

This service is designed to determine the effectiveness of your storage environment. As a result you will be better positioned to make more efficient use of your existing resources while planning on how to meet future needs with the best technology available.

Please contact us today to schedule a meeting with one of our storage experts to learn more about the benefits of a full storage assessment.