In my conversations with customers, I’ve found out the most common reasons they’ve identified that they need to implement a backup or storage analysis and migration strategy. You may identify with some or all of these – let me know what you think:
- You’re running more than one legacy backup system.
- You’ve got a mix of vendor software & hardware backup & retrieval solutions.
- You’ve no idea what percentage utilisation you are running at for your backup/storage data.
- Your data centre is consuming huge amounts of energy, managing many disparate systems.
- You’d like to know how much storage wastage you really have.
- You’d like to consolidate to one backup or storage platform, but are worried how all the different data can be identified.
- You feel that you’re fire-fighting – constantly battling with the need to purchase more in storage or backup.
- You want to understand where you are without impact to your corporate technology assets and resources.
- You’d like to carry out complex “what-if” analyses quickly.
- You’d like to see target configuration benefits based on the latest available technology, over a 3-year period.
- You want to simplify management, administration and coordination to reduce overheads
- You want a vendor independent perspective of what are the best transformation options for your environment.
