It’s The Data That Matters
In 2009, amid the "Great Recession," the amount of digital information grew 62% over 2008 to 800 billion gigabytes (IDC).
The average organisation has over 5,000GB of corporate data that needs to be stored, archived, protected, retrieved and ultimately deleted. And it is up to the IT department to make sure this happens effectively.
When as much as 20% of corporate data is duplicated, it’s clear that a strategy of simply adding storage capacity won’t help you to be cost effective, efficient or compliant.
So if all data isn’t created equal, where do you start?
Dimension Data recommends getting an understanding of your current environment by profiling your unstructured data, understanding the associated storage need and capacity and embarking on a deduplication strategy that takes into account future growth.
Data Profiler Assessment – This non-intrusive assessment service will profile and categorise existing data and provide you with recommendations on how to put you back in control of how you manage and utilise your storage infrastructure – based on what is best of your business data.
If you need a broader view of your storage environment, start with a Storage Assessment. This assessment will help you understand how to reduce the time and effort required to manage your storage environment while ensuring compliance, reducing risk and improving service delivery to the business.
Data Matters
A collection of insights for better navigating enterprise storage and data management challenges
IDC Perspectives On Effective Data Management
Storage and data management trends, changes and challenges
Data, Data Everywhere
Tactics for better profiling and structuring enterprise data
The Cloud is Not Just About Cheaper IT, it’s About Better IT
The impact that virtualisation and cloud computing has on storage and data management
Preparing Storage for the New Age in Computing
Key considerations for managing data in a virtual world
Unified Storage Means Not Having To Choose Between Saving Money and Acquiring Capabilities
Leveraging unified storage to drive business outcomes and greater efficiencies
Storing Duplicate Data Just Adds Insult to Injury
Demystifying data deduplication to better leverage existing storage investments
Data Matters eBook
Download this eBook to access the electronic Data Matters thought leadership publication. It contains a collection of insights for better navigating enterprise storage and data management challenges.
Optimised storage and data management is journey rather than a once off project. Data is dynamic and in turn requires a lifecycle management approach to be successful.
Dimension Data offers a broad number of services to assist you with the management of your storage and data – across the lifecycle of your data.
Storage Assessment - understand how to reduce the time, effort and resources required to manage your storage environment, while improving service delivery to the business.
Data Profiler Assessment - gives you visibility of your data and puts you in control of how you utilise and optimise storage investments.
Data Minimisation Assessment – helps you analyse your data storage cost profile, providing a TCO and ROI analysis for the various data management options.
Backup and Recovery Assessment - uncover how to reduce risk, analysis ROI to justify future investments, improve service level agreements and protect and access your data.
Data Centre Maturity Assessment – get an end-to-end view of your data centre and plan your future data centre roadmap.
Dimension Data’s Storage and Data Management Solutions in Action
Spar Group
Data deduplication solution helps the Spar Group reduce backup time from three days to just four hours.
Hickory Public Schools
Virtualisation solution for business continuity, server consolidation, centralised management, backup and recovery and file archiving.