Over 97% of enterprises do not have accurate data to support key initiatives in 2008
The top five (5) storage initiatives are planned by CIOs and IT management for 2008 for Fortune 1000 and medium-size enterprises as reported by industry research data from The InfoPro (Storage Study Wave 9) include:
- Consolidation
- Tier Storage Build Out
- Technology Refresh
- Backup Redesign
- Virtualization
Unfortunately, over 36% of the enterprises are anticipating dramatic budget decreases as much as 25% or more. IT management is under considerable pressure to reduce costs, as storage as percentage of overall IT costs continues to rise.
The biggest challenge in implementing the key initiatives in 2008 is to discover and report data on storage asset, capacity, allocation, utilization, performance and cost. IMT Partners has discovered that over 97% of over 100 client consolidation and migration projects failed or significantly delay by up to 6 months due to lack of accurate and up-to-date data. Each company wasted millions of dollar and thousands of man hours annually to collect the same set of data to support individual project.
Knowing that there is a simplified solution to provide a unified set of reports on both storage and data information for multi-vendor and multi-platform infrastructure is critical for CIOs and IT managers to improve their operating efficiency and stop wasting precious IT budget that is under considerable pressure for reductions.
IMT Partners offers an automated solution for unified reporting on multi-vendor and multi-platform storage and data infrastructure. The Unified Storage and Data Reporting Solution includes a centralized reporting system and distributed tools for systematic collection and reporting of storage assets, capacity, utilization, performance and costs.
Our solution has demonstrated capabilities to collect and report on the following data to support our clients’ key initiatives in a multi-vendor infrastructure
- Assets for server, storage and switch
- Capacity, allocation and utilization
- Performance on server and storage
- Backup and recovery utilization
- File systems data classification
- TCO cost and allocation to LOB
The solution can be structured to our clients in various ways to address budget and resource constraints.
- Turn-key Solution - Includes product and services for installation, data collection, reporting and training
- Annual Subscription – Includes monthly, quarterly or annual updates and reporting
- Initiative Assessment - Includes product and services to support specific initiative
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