Data Management
As one of the fastest growing elements in today's data center, data management is key to your organizations ability to adapt to new demands and optimize service delivery for business applications while improving end-to-end Information Technology manageabilty. Whether you are simply trying to keep your head above water or are looking to take advantage of that next technology breakthrough, Scalar Decisions can provide the assessment, design, and deployment expertise you need.
As an IT consulting and solutions provider, Scalar Decisions constantly evaluates new technology looking for solutions that provide companies with a competitive edge. Through our investments in ScalarLabs, a multivendor interoperability design centre, we implement and validate new technology to ensure customer-readiness prior to recommending and deploying at customer sites - separating real functionality from power-point slideware.
In today's data management world, leading edge technologies such as FCoE and CNA are starting to take shape, while Information Technology initiatives in the areas of deduplication, vitualization, tiering, archiving, and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Policy enforcement, among many others, are demonstrating key business benefits. As a leading provider of consulting services and solutions across multiple facets of companies enterprise IT infrastructure, Scalar Decisions is uniquely positioned to address your business drivers and IT challenges through an assessment of your needs, and the design, deployment, and management of the right data management infrastructure to satisfy them.
Data Management Services
Information Lifecycle Management - ILM has been a buzzword for a few years now, taking on many variations and promising revolutionary ways of managing data. We take the hype and hyperbole out by looking at your environment and objectives and showing you where you can truly achieve benefits from an ILM policy based approach and how to properly enforce it using real solutions.
Data Deduplication - As a technology, data deduplication promises to be the answer to the ever growing data storage requirements being realized by companies today. How best to implement this technology in your environment is of course the bigger question - inline, post-process, source or target based, etc; and whether you are optimizing for performance, capacity, or network bandwidth. Our expertise in this area will help you decide how and where it is best to implement, and what technology is the right fit for your organization.
Disaster Recovery - Building a disaster recovery solution (or leveraging a managed disaster recovery service or co-location facility) can be a daunting task, but one that many companies are investing in. Doing it right can mean the difference between recovering your application and business services, or a failed business. We work with several hardware and software solutions that enable reliable and optimized disaster recovery methodologies dependent upon your specific infrastructure investments and will design the right solution to ensure you applications as well as your infrastructure are recoverable.
High Performance Storage Solutions / Leveraging SSD - Many applications with critical performance requirements are handicapped by the response time of the underlying storage array - implementing Solid State Disk (SSD) based solutions can have significant impact on this response time to the application and dramatically increase application performance while reducing batch processing times significantly. There are multiple approaches to SSD in the market today, and multiple manufacturers of SSD drives - such as in the server, enterprise storage arrays, or purpose built solutions. By analyzing your application profile, we will work with you to determine the best and most cost effective way to improve application performance.
Resources
Data Deduplication - Scalar Brochure
http://www.scalar.ca/about/article-datadedupe.php
SNIA - Technical Standards
http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/
SNIA - Forums and Initiatives
http://www.snia.org/forums/
for Consulting
Scalar’s Professional Services group is a technology led organization. Our team of industry leading architects have decades of experience deploying complex infrastructure into mission-critical environments. We invest heavily in ongoing training and development of our staff to ensure they remain at the forefront of technological developments.
Testaments to the quality and ability of our delivery team are the bilateral Professional Services agreements we have with our key partners. This enables us to provide integration services for Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, NetApp, EMC, Red Hat, Symantec, and F5 either as Scalar or as their representatives. We have divided our Team into the following Practices: Systems Optimization, Data Management, Networks and Security, Virtualization, and Compute Grids.
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