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Datalink Capacity Services
Overcome today's capacity challenges and anticipate tomorrow's storage needs. When you select Datalink to help with data center optimization, your company can reduce costs and improve operational efficiency.
Capacity manager reporting services overview
Data storage capacity management lets you get the most out of your existing infrastructure and plan for the future. Through tools-assisted analysis and engineering expertise, the capacity manager reporting service provides clear insight into how you are currently using your storage resources, enabling you to take proactive measures to maximize existing capacity and delay or reduce future storage purchases.
Our approach to capacity manager reporting:
- Quantitative data collection — Driven by technology-led tools, we install a data collector at your site that securely gathers capacity-related information, with minimal impact on your environment. This data is sent over a secure connection to the StorageScape™ portal, hosted by Datalink.
- Round-the-clock access to key performance metrics — Our service provides you with detailed reports identifying unused or underutilized storage, over-provisioned applications, and utilization trends. You have 24x7 access to the StorageScape portal, enabling you to proactively gauge the health of your environment and take corrective action as needed.
The benefits of capacity manager reporting:
- Project storage utilization over time.
- Drive efficient storage utilization.
- Improve application availability.
- Provide chargeback reporting.
Capacity planning services overview
Our capacity audits and assessments provide in-depth analysis of your storage utilization, enabling you to more effectively plan future storage purchases and optimize your current storage infrastructure.
Our approach to capacity planning:
- Quantitative data collection — Driven by technology-led tools, we install a data collector at your site that securely gathers capacity-related information, with minimal impact on your environment. This data is sent over a secure connection to the StorageScape portal, hosted by Datalink.
- Round-the-clock access to key performance metrics — Our service provides you with detailed reports identifying unused or underutilized storage, over-provisioned applications, and utilization trends. You have 30-day, round-the-clock access to the StorageScape portal, enabling you to proactively gauge the health of your environment and take corrective action as needed.
- Recommendations for next steps — After interpreting the quantitative output and findings from our analysis, we offer suggestions for using best-available technologies and practices to improve your capacity utilization.
The benefits of capacity planning:
- Greater application availability
- Increased visibility of your entire storage infrastructure
- Instantaneous views of capacity usage
- Optimized capacity for mission-critical applications
- Identification of over-provisioning
- More accurate ROI projections for technology solutions
- Enhanced storage management
Capacity planning services offered:
Capacity audit — The capacity audit includes:
- A kickoff meeting that defines the project scope
- Installation of the management tool at your site for data collection
- Report generation with data analysis
- Findings document and recommendations for improvement
Capacity assessment — The capacity assessment features everything from the audit, plus an additional, more detailed qualitative analysis by our experts, including:
- Strategic guidance on how you can increase efficiencies and drive savings within your enterprise storage infrastructure
- Tactical, unbiased recommendations spanning technologies and proposed solution designs, processes required, and implications for existing resources
- Roadmap for the future
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