Storage Management

Starfire Technologies is focused on storage management as a core offering combined with a specialization in Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and virtualization technologies. The combined expertise in these technologies enables Starfire to offer significant advantages in addressing a range of problem areas in IT storage at once.

Solving the IT storage "jigsaw puzzle"

IT storage staff today face escalating challenges to meet an array of requirements ranging from achieving backup windows consistently, conforming to compliance requirements, and managing data growth effectively with limited budgets and staff. In addition to this, there is the importance of maintaining business continuity and providing effective disaster recovery capabilities.

Starfire provides senior architects who are experts covering the full spectrum of technologies in the IT storage space. By understanding how each "piece" fits into the storage puzzle, we help you to choose the right design for your storage infrastructure and configure each component for optimum performance.

Benefits:

• Achieve back up windows consistently
• Locate and address weak points to improve reliability
  
• Leverage existing environment - achieve optimal performance
  
• Minimize costs
• Design optimal architecture to position for future flexibility
• Simplify storage management administration
• Improve hardware utilization

Starfire has developed innovative methodologies and tools over the years to rapidly assess your environment and locate weak points. Buying lots of expensive hardware is not always the best answer since achieving the best results depends on a range of variables. Starfire designs and implements elegant solutions to address complex problems so you buy the technologies and hardware you really need.

There are also significant benefits to leveraging virtualization technologies such as server virtualization and storage virtualization:

• Virtualizing servers with the right configuration for your environment can result in significant performance improvements and cost reductions
• Storage virtualization technologies such as IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC) are designed to virtualize dissimilar SAN resources that can be managed as a single resource pool

IT storage and information management is a core offerings for Starfire Technologies. Starfire offers clients the benefit of years of experience in this space and the technical expertise and innovative methodologies to provide comprehensive solutions.

Turning Complexity into Simplicity