SARCOM is focused on providing products and expertise by incorporating centralized disk and tape storage, UNIX and Microsoft high-availability computing, and data and systems management.
- Centralized Backup
- Highly Available Platforms
- Disk and Tape Storage Management
- Data Migration and Replication
- Networked Storage (SAN and NAS)
- Server Consolidation and Virtualization
Data Center
The two basic functions of an organization’s IT department are to develop applications and deliver them. Nevertheless, in many IT organizations, application development and delivery are not closely aligned. Symptoms include: poor performing applications or issues with availability. As organizations move towards electronic records they depend on enterprise architecture that can provide the highest level of availability and accessibility to information and applications. Many organizations struggle with complex disparity, an inability to provide end-to-end service oriented architecture – very often due to vendors and software providers that have simply installed hardware rather than a comprehensive data center solution.
Our SARCOM professionals look at the entire infrastructure in your data center as a consolidated pool of resources that need to be aligned to deliver performance and agility to your applications/users at any time. Let us work with you to align your organizations resources and technology to create a path for performance and to improve your data center services.
Data Management
Information growth and information management must remain balanced as greater and greater quantities of digital data are stored. Assigning a life cycle to information is critical in storage management to ensure that data reduction and data growth coincide in an automated fashion. Organizations often struggle with information life cycle policy creation, and therefore may not take the additional steps needed to improve the way in which data is stored.
SARCOM can work with your organization to build a multi-tiered data storage strategy, help establish basic information policies, and recommend the management tools needed to take the first step toward complete life cycle management. An incremental approach allows organizations to work through and identify the DNA of their information and then evaluate legality or business need issues that may take longer to resolve.
Storage
The characteristics of how data is created and retained have changed dramatically for both consumers and businesses. More digital information is being created and stored at present than the collective data of ALL previous centuries. Advancement in applications, data correlation, and interface technologies are rapidly changing how we use, capture, and reference information. As incredible as these advancements have been, the underlying data infrastructure has often not adapted accordingly. Impacts to businesses intelligence, application availability, and continuity will compound over time until the underlying data infrastructure is capable of meeting these ever-changing needs and characteristics. Our team can help you to understand how your current issues are being affected by your present technology and then create a progressive data architecture roadmap to address these same issues.
Top among issues businesses are experiencing today are poor performing applications and lack of information management. Data center expenditures are expected to become the largest IT cost center within organizations, thus highlighting the need for significant data center transformation. Current statistics show that data center storage is nearly 100% allocated, while the utilization of that storage is less than 50%. Virtualization, dynamic provisioning, tiered management, and information life cycle management are all key areas of consideration. Being able to bundle performance, virtualization, and dynamic provisioning functionality in your storage architecture will be essential in controlling costs, addressing poorly performing applications, and providing true quality of service to these applications. SARCOM will help determine the current economics and performance of your data infrastructure and will make recommendations that help your organization become more empowered to address its needs.
Servers
Server architecture advancements are dramatically changing the landscape of computing. Server processor architecture is at the highest level of acceleration since the introduction of semi-conductors. Current multi-core processor technology and its exponential growth will provide platform alternatives that were not possible even a few years ago. Many organizations are finding it problematic to take full advantage of available cloud or grid computing options, but will be able to consolidate and create centralized private cloud functionality and introduce external options when applicable.
Many technology initiatives that organizations adopt, such as server consolidation, desktop virtualization, and application virtualization, highlight the need for a different approach to the design and architecture of the server environment. Our team of server architects can help your organization understand key elements that will help you build a cost-effective and adaptive flexible server infrastructure. Additionally, we will help you to understand present and future technologies that will be available for your current environment – to help maximize your current investment.
