Accenture storage

transformation
solutions
In recent years, data storage capacity has grown
at astonishing rates, topping 30 percent per year
for some information-sensitive companies.
Demands for capacity continue to rise:
New applications that promise to drive effi-
ciencies, customer insights and profitability
generate high volumes of data, which must be
stored.
New regulations, such as those outlined in the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act, mandate that companies
archive, manage and secure ever larger vol-
umes of information.
The growth of digital content such as images,
photos, and audio or video files brings with it
additional storage demands.
In response to these trends, companies have
implemented large numbers of servers and
Storage Area Network (SAN) islands to meet
their storage requirements. Unfortunately, this
environment is marked by incompatible storage
platforms, non-standardized processes and server
utilization rates that remain, on average, below
20 percent. The result is a chaotic environment
that is nearly impossible to manage effectively.
Gaining control over enterprise storage and its
rapidly escalating costs is a critical step toward
improving IT productivity, reducing costs and
driving high performance. Yet, many CIOs do not
know where to begin. Accenture is uniquely
suited to help.
Managing Storage for Growth and
High Performance
For more than 20 years, Accenture has partnered
with companies to control and manage their
information systems. Our Data Center
Rationalization framework offers a suite of
customizable storage transformation solutions
that can help you reduce storage cost and
complexity and improve utilization rates by as
much as 30 percent. These solutions include:
Storage Infrastructure Assessment
Accenture helps you evaluate your existing
storage infrastructure against industry
benchmarks, as well as your current and future
storage requirements. Whether you opt for a
multi-month detailed analysis or a one-week,
high-level assessment, we focus on identifying
the value of data from a business perspective.
This understanding serves as the foundation for a
storage strategy and roadmap that drives new
levels of IT productivity.
Accenture helped a
global energy
company define and
build a SAN storage
solution aligned to
business needs. The
new, tiered storage
architecture allowed
the giant to reduce
its storage footprint
from six storage
arrays to two and, in
the process, save
nearly $1.5 million.
Over three years, the
company expects its
more efficient
storage environment
to generate net
present value
savings of
$10 million.
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Storage Consolidation
Accenture helps you make the most of
your unused disk space by designing a
storage consolidation infrastructure
that leverages Storage Area Networks
(SANs) and Network Area Storage
(NAS). These solutions, which
incorporate proven management
policies and methodologies, are also
flexible enough to accommodate future
storage requirements.
Storage Data Protection
Accenture helps you design, build and
implement a backup and recovery
solution that supports business
continuance and ensures your most
valuable data is always available. We
base the solution design on a deep
understanding of your data recovery
requirements, data prioritization and
recovery time objectives.
Data Archiving and Compliance
Accenture helps you develop an
infrastructure that ensures you are
retaining valuable data while
eliminating archival redundancy. We
first help you establish policies and
business requirements to prioritize and
focus your archival activities. We assess
your current archiving and compliance
structures. And then we work with
leading vendors to implement the
solution to best meet your archiving
and compliance needs.
Storage Management
Accenture helps you drive costs from
your storage environment by
strengthening your end-to-end storage
management capabilities. Specifically,
we help improve processes and
procedures in capacity planning, event
management, storage provisioning and
other areas. We also help identify and
implement the storage resource
management tools best suited to
integrate your storage devices with
other critical systems.
Accenture: Your Partner in
Storage Transformation
In delivering our storage solutions, we:
Combine strong execution
capabilities with deep industry
insights, business process expertise
and leading-edge technologies to
deliver fast results, with less risk.
Provide deep skills in storage
technologies and processes to help
you achieve your cost reduction
and performance improvement
objectives.
Offer "impartial" best-of-breed
storage solutions that leverage our
alliances with leading hardware and
software vendors.
Apply an IT Infrastructure Library
(ITIL) based set of processes to
ensure data process quality.
Above all, Accenture helps you
understand and optimize the business
value of your data and position your
storage capabilities as a key
enabler of high performance.
For more information about how
Accenture can help you transform
your storage environment, contact:
ATC_Infraconsulting@accenture.com














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