The demands of an always-on work environment that spans geographies and time zones is ever-increasing the pressures on IT departments to provide rich, connected capabilities across the infrastructure, while protecting both the environment and its confidential data from intrusion and disruption. The infrastructure optimization process helps organizations transform their IT infrastructures into strategic assets, reducing system complexity and providing greater operational flexibility. As a result, IT managers are able to:

Control costs:
Reduce hardware, utility, and space expenses for data-center operations
Reduce application compatibility testing for major deployments
Reduce training expenses and free up costly IT personnel forhigher-value use
Increase system uniformity, to avoid conflicts and accelerateproblem resolution
Prevent security breaches and subsequent clean-up efforts
Reduce remote site visits in branch operations

Improve service levels:
Reduce service interruptions from security breaches
Maintain a robust disaster recovery process, to avoid service interruptions and speed recovery
Avoid desktop configuration conflicts and accelerate help-desk resolution
Quarantine out-of-compliance remote systems and legacy line-of-business (LOB) applications

Drive agility:
Increase flexibility and ability to adapt to changing business conditions
Rapidly provision new capabilities
Dynamically assign resources to demanding workloads in near real time
Employ zero-touch self-provisioning and automatic configuration
Streamline and accelerate software deployment

The vision of infrastructure optimization is to help customers realize the value of their investments in IT infrastructure, to make the IT infrastructure a strategic asset that supports agility within their organizations, and ultimately to help customers create an infrastructure for a people-ready business.

For more information about how your business can benefit from the infrastructure optimization process, contact Digital Reach!

According to a new survey by ILM Audit 2007, data archiving and disaster recovery are likely to lead the storage related IT concerns for 2008.  The Audit reveals that IT departments top five storage related concerns are:

1. Disaster Recovery
2. File Archiving
3. Email Archiving
4. Data Backup
5. Database Archiving

59% percent of IT departments credit Disaster Recovery as their top concern for data storage related considerations.  The report further announced that 84% of IT executives stated that storage vendors should be doing more to improve the energy efficiency of their products. The issue brings us the “green” storage topic which is expected to gain even larger ground in 2008 and beyond.

In addition to the top 5 storage concerns were: Continuous Data Protection, Encryption of Archived Data, Storage Management/ILM, Storage Resource Management, and Secondary Storage Consolidation.

According to the report, the proportion of companies holding over 1TB on primary storage has increased from 59% in 2006 to 73% in the 2007 ILM Audit. And at the top end, one in five (21%) of all companies are now holding over 10TB of data on primary storage. But the research also reveals that between 30 to 50 percent of data held on primary storage is inactive and unlikely to be accessed again.

When asked what factors are driving interest in data archiving, the top issue highlighted by the survey sample was disaster recovery followed by regulatory compliance and data growth.

Discover why companies in Texas and beyond trust Digital Reach with for Data Backup, Storage, and Recovery.