Information Lifecycle Management
Industry analysts agree that storage requirements continue to grow at a rate of 50% to 125% per year. Surveys performed by Meta Group indicate that the low cost SATA/ATA storage market alone will grow 85% in the next 12 months. A core challenge for all IT executives is how to manage more data with fewer resources and improve on the existing return on data retention investments. The challenge gets more complex when compliance issues for HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC requirements and new state legislation become part of the overall issue. How efficient your data strategy is will strongly indicate how cost effective your data storage management is. Are there multiple copies of the same file stored in multiple places on the network? Is the file that hasn’t been accessed for twelve months on the same high speed storage subsystem as the files that are accessed every day? Do you have the tools to track the location and usage of data within the company to help IT successfully handle issues from audits to disasters? A high return from storage investments requires a data strategy that is a combination of processes and tools. ValCom can help you with your data strategy by:

• Documenting a data management strategy that is aligned with your business objectives
• Providing an assessment to determine where data resides and the usage of the information
• Classifying the data to help automate the data’s migration through the environment
• Recommending the most cost efficient storage technology for the classifications 
• Implementing an automation plan to better utilize storage resources and improve on business continuance planning

ValCom’s Customer Demonstration Center
Storage is the lifeblood of the data center to your users and a strong data storage strategy can be challenging when compounded by compliance requirements and budget constraints. It is critical to choose the correct storage architecture for your application, your budget and your growth needs. There is no “one size fits all” because of the complexities of a balanced deployment environment. Different storage medias such as fibre, SCSI, SATA, FATA combined with technologies such as SAN, NAS, DAS and JBOD increase the sophistication of synergistic integration while driving down the cost of storing data. ValCom’s Customer Demonstration Center can provide you with the benefits of assisting with:

• Tape backup conversations 
• Storage assessments 
• Data migration
• Storage risk mitigation 
• High data availability 
• Disaster recovery planning