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Few IT managers today manage an IT environment with a single vendor's server and storage solutions, if you are like most, you struggle with the complexity of your heterogeneous IT environment and its effect on your service levels and operational costs. Many IT Managers are also facing unprecedented, exponential storage and data growth from collaboration and e-mail tools, ERP solutions, Data Warehouse programs, and other exploding content sources with fixed budgets.
QuantM offers a full suite of professional services for corporate clients in storage, backup, and storage networks technologies, ranging from pre-sales consulting and project planning to installation, training, health checks, site assessments, troubleshooting, and support.
Our consultants have significant depth of experience with all major backup applications, operating systems, database applications, tape hardware, SAN hardware, and storage technologies. We also have expertise in selected email archiving, forms processing, and enterprise fax technologies.
QuantM’s Storage Optimization and Integration Services - transformation strategy assessment, powered by the IBM Novus™ Management Complexity Factor (MCF) solution, quickly and efficiently analyzes your interconnected IT and storage environments, determines cost inefficiencies, dependencies and opportunities for improvement - both short term and long range. More than an assessment of the current state, the solution helps you develop an effective IT storage growth and optimization plan and provides tactical, short-term activities that can lead to strategic, long-range improvement, replacing watered-down metrics like Terabyte/ Full-time employees ratios with critical metrics such as :
- Architectural complexity
- Process maturity
- Level of automation
- Information availability
- Use of tools
- Skills alignment
- Expected growth
- Rate of change
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Backup Systems integration
We have been integrating backup solutions for over 14 years. We offer complete installations of software, hardware, and applicable infrastructure for clients who want an end-to-end service. These services include planning meetings and data gathering; the creation of detailed project plans and statements of work; and the installation of the backup server, all clients, additional modules for databases and messaging servers, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
We tailor configuration of the products based on the client's requirements and business objectives, including backup window, tape rotation and retention policies (for backup systems), and zoning considerations, hardware constraints, and future growth (for storage systems). Extensive testing for data accessibility, data restore, and disaster recovery is also available. |
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SAN Consulting & Integration
Storage Area Network (SAN) architectures have placed additional strains and stresses on IT departments, adding a whole new layer of complexity on top of already heterogeneous hardware, software, and operating system platforms. Our consultants are well-versed in SAN architecture and equipment. We are available to design and roll out new SANs, whether general-purpose or application-specific. We are also available to troubleshoot existing environments and can provide knowledge transfer and training for your staff. |
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Disaster Recovery Planning
Whether you need to implement a disaster recovery (DR) plan because you are part of a regulated industry or because it is simply good business practice, we can help. QuantM offers a variety of products and technologies to address needs ranging from remote hot sites, to replication, to continuous and real-time backup.
Our consultants are available to meet with you, discuss your business goals and priorities, and educate you about the technologies and services that are available to address your needs. We can prepare detailed solution designs, product specifications, and project plans, as well as implement and document your DR solution. |
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Storage Resource Assessments
Many of our clients have experienced tremendous organic growth in their IT departments over the last several years, resulting in large numbers of often disparate storage hardware and data management tools.
QuantM works with a number of technologies--from storage resource management software to virtual disk solutions and migration tools--to help our clients get the most from their existing equipment while reducing their labor and management costs. Our consultants are available to assess your storage resource utilization and make recommendations for optimizing your existing resources, easing your management and provisioning burdens, and planning for future growth. |
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