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STORAGE BACKUP;
RESTORE
STABILIZATION &
OPTIMIZATION
DESIGN

Dell consultants collaboratively evaluate your storage backup environment and create a
backup plan to address your key storage challenges using Dell experience and industry
best practices.

Workshop Assessment Design Implementation Manage/Support

STORAGE NEEDS ARE CHANGING

The rapid growth of data stores and the evolution of data driven business processes have stressed
the design of most organizations data storage systems. Every organization has unique data storage
requirements shaped by daily business processes, regulatory and compliance constraints, disaster
recovery needs, and corporate retention and deletion policies. New technologies and architectures
are available that, when designed to meet your key storage backup challenges, can significantly
reduce storage costs and improve performance and efficiency.

The Dell ProConsult Storage Backup, Restore Stabilization & Optimization design engagement is
available to help you design a storage backup solution that will make your backup process more
efficient, helping save time and expense.

DELL CAN HELP OPTIMIZE YOUR STORAGE ENVIRONMENT

Design is key to an efficient backup and restore environment. Older backup systems quickly can
become constrained and a redesign can realign performance with your business requirements.
Dell consultants can rapidly evaluate your current environment and design a backup solution that
will align performance and cost with the value of your data and your business objectives.

• Help improve backup efficiency with a design tailored to meet your key challenges
• Help gain the ability to monitor and predict capacity needs to scale with business changes
• Help improve data protection while cost effectively meeting retention period policies

A well planned and maintained storage infrastructure can support growing data requirements
without increasing costs and complexity. Dell ProConsult services can help you design a storage
infrastructure to satisfy your unique data availability, retention and recovery requirements.

Dell ProConsult services utilize skilled solution architects, innovative tools, and Dell’s intellectual
property to provide practical plans that deliver specific, predictable and measurable outcomes on
well-defined timelines.
DELL PROCONSULT STORAGE BACKUP; RESTORE STABILIZATION & OPTIMIZATION DESIGN
In this ProConsult engagement, Dell consultants collaboratively evaluate your storage backup
environment and create a backup plan to address your key storage challenges using Dell experience
and industry best practices. The design will clearly reflect your business needs, stabilize and
consolidate your existing infrastructure, optimize for future growth and efficiency, and provide
options to operate backup and restore as a service with varying service levels for different categories
of business data.

DESIGN DELIVERABLES

• BACKUP AND RESTORE SOLUTION DESIGN DOCUMENT (BRSD)

This document captures baseline requirements, architecture of the proposed solution and
solution components, as well as the configuration guide and implementation process used to
deploy the solution.

• BACKUP AND RESTORE SERVICE CATALOG (BRSC)

Describes the available backup service levels and the rules for backup and restore for data types
and categories.

KEY SERVICE STEPS

• INITIATION PHASE. A conference call to understand high-level challenges.

• REQUIREMENTS WORKSHOP. Onsite workshop, identification of requirements, a review of

future state scenarios and technical architectural principles proposed during assessment.

• ANALYSIS PHASE. Follow up interview, detailed analysis workshop results, and confirm future
state scenario and technical architectural principles. Stabilization opportunities with current
backup infrastructure are also identified during the analysis phase.

• PRESENTATION PHASE. Completion of the Backup & Restore Solution Design document
and Backup & Restore Service Catalog. The design document and catalog are reviewed with
IT Management. The finalized BRSD and BRSC are given to key stakeholders highlighting
stabilization and optimization recommendations with next steps.

DELL PROCONSULT SERVICES ENABLE IT SIMPLIFICATION

Dell works with you to automate, standardize and reduce complexity to help improve the efficiency
of your IT operations. Dell Consulting Services begin with half-day workshops to identify and
prioritize your challenges and introduce well-defined engagements designed to deliver predictable
outcomes on defined timelines. Contact your Dell representative to explore Dell storage solutions
that can help lower your TCO and help improve IT efficiency.

SIMPLIFY YOUR IT MANAGEMENT AT DELL.COM

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