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Storage Strategy
Soroc helps companies develop and implement storage strategies to drive down storage costs, improve manageability and facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements. Soroc’s consulting services expertise includes tiered storage architecture, data de-duplication and storage virtualization. Soroc also offers a hosted, pay-per-use storage utility to accommodate its clients’ growing and changing data requirements.

Tiered Storage Architecture

Data is growing at an exponential rate. Additionally, corporate retention policies, regulations, media changes and business drivers require organizations to store more data and keep it longer – driving up storage costs.


Soroc helps organizations develop a tiered architecture strategy to manage these costs by:
  • Evaluating and aligning the importance of data with the cost of storing and managing it
  • Developing an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) framework in order to:
    • Assign different categories of data to different types of storage media
    • Move data to a lower-cost storage method when it becomes less mission critical to the business
    • Increase service levels for critical applications and data sets
    • Ensure scalability
    • Facilitate compliance with legislation such as HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Data De-duplication

With its data de-duplication services, Soroc helps organizations control data proliferation and ensure efficient utilization of data storage resources. As a result, organizations can:
  • Reduce volume of data and required storage capacity
  • Extend intervals between storage capacity upgrades
  • Conduct back-ups faster
  • Reduce DR, back-up and archiving costs
  • Store “more” data per storage unit
  • Retain online data for longer periods of time

Storage Virtualization

Soroc storage virtualization services enable organizations to:
  • Rejuvenate existing storage pools to meet growing storage demand
  • Attain greater management efficiency with one centrally managed, heterogeneous storage entity vs. multiple entities potentially from different vendors
  • Make changes to the storage configuration without downtime
  • Migrate data more easily
  • Map the storage pool to various architecture tiers (see Tiered Storage Architecture above)
Storage Strategy Services Methodology
Strategy Development
Soroc helps organizations formulate their storage strategy and determine the total cost of ownership and cost savings that can be achieved by implementing Tiered Storage, Storage Virtualization and Data De-duplication solutions.
Implementation
Soroc has qualified architects to help you design a scalable storage architecture as well as an ILM framework to manage your data tiers. Soroc engineers also have broad experience implementing solutions from a host of different storage technology providers.
Management
Soroc offers a Hosted Storage utility to accommodate your growing and changing data requirements. Soroc offers monthly billing based strictly on use and also holds a block of on-site storage for each customer for Just-In-Time capacity provisioning. Customers are only billed for this storage capacity when they use it. Soroc also provides hosted Disaster Recovery solutions.
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