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Storage management

StorageTek’s Remote Managed Storage services provide simple, reliable and predictable storage management for complex multi-vendor environments. We provide a suite of offerings that establish a single point of accountability. Our service teams support a wide range of vendors' hardware and software making it easier for you to manage your IT environment. With the Remote Managed Storage services various suite of offerings, StorageTek delivers services for centralized storage management and ViaRemote™ services for decentralized storage management.

Centralized Storage Management
To help you manage data at your location, using your hardware and software, StorageTek consultants work primarily through our remote Storage Operations Center (SOC), which is staffed 24x7. StorageTek’s worldwide services team can also respond quickly on a local basis to provide additional support. The SOC staff strives to identify issues or potential problems before they impact your business and provides this service while you maintain control of your storage environment.

Decentralized Storage Management
ViaRemote services is a fully-managed remote data protection offering for your entire business. Data from servers, PCs and laptops, located anywhere on your IP network is automatically backed up to a secure, highly available offsite storage facility. This service provides a way for all of your data to be centrally managed, protected and recoverable. Whether you need to retrieve lost data, respond to a regulatory audit or recover from a disaster, ViaRemote services provides restorability with financially-backed service levels.

Decentralized storage management services

ViaRemote services
Powered by Arsenal, backed up to StorageTek equipment, is a fully-managed, automated, pay-as-you-go remote data protection solution for servers, PCs and laptops can be located anywhere on your IP network - data center, remote offices and mobile workforces. Data is backed up using encryption and ultra-efficient backup technology to a secure, highly available StorageTek facility. You can initiate restores over the network or with an optional onsite appliance (Fast Restore option) that enables full system restores at LAN speed. The service includes hardware, software and 24 x 7 supports and meets IT support requirements. You simply install supplied software agents on each machine that requires data protection, and automated backups occur to StorageTek equipment on a scheduled basis. Users initiate restores using a Web-based portal.


Centralized storage management

Storage Infrastructure services
StorageTek’s remote Storage Operations Center (SOC) monitors and reports capacity and utilization, storage performance and availability, backup events and SAN topology. They also provide inventory reporting, event notification and configuration change notification.

Tape backup and restore management
StorageTek will assist in the daily success of your backup and restore environment, including backup configuration, backup and restore management, offsite vaulting, full configuration management and problem ownership, monitoring and reporting. We can also help increase performance and reliability with Service Level Agreement (SLA) management to improve backup windows, increase the percentage of completed backups and provide more reliable restores.

Disk and volume services
While you maintain control of your storage environment, StorageTek will provide oversight of your disk storage volume management to improve total disk utilization and decrease the time and cost of provisioning disk volumes. We assist in the daily success of your storage capacity and disk performance management and more, including: full configuration management, problem ownership, SAN provisioning, customer control and interaction, and monitoring and reporting.

Global Storage Manager Software and implementation services
Global Storage Manager (GSM) software enables you to easily manage your own storage infrastructure. You will have access to storage reporting through a Web portal interface, with assessment and implementation services from StorageTek.


Key Benefits

Control costs
Consolidate storage systems management. See the big picture and be able to make more informed storage-related decisions.

Reduce stress associated with backup and restore
We manage your backups and relieve your storage burden. Choose a service that helps you manage data at your location or, choose ViaRemote™ services for automated backups to a secure facility.

Satisfy users by meeting service level agreements
With Remote Managed Storage services, StorageTek enhances your IT staff with storage management knowledge and capability.

Operate with confidence
Remote Managed Storage services are backed by storage experts who monitor and manage hardware and software 24 x 7.

Improve total cost of ownership
Raise overall storage efficiency and increase asset utilization. Migrate data to lower cost media. Or, with ViaRemote, skip the expense of an in-house staff and equipment and eliminate redundant equipment at distributed locations.


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Related information
Remote Managed Storage (RMS) Healthcare Archive Solution offering collateral (pdf 107 Jul 2005)
ViaRemote Overview collateral (pdf 353k, May 2005)
Remote Managed Services flash presentation
Global Services Overview collateral (pdf 90K, Aug 2004)
Global Services Overview Flash Presentation
Remote Managed Storage offering collateral (pdf 350K, Nov 2004)
Technical Brief: Remote Managed Storage Services Security