Infrastructure Snapshot

Is increasing data growth and government regulations impacting your ability to efficiently deliver services?

Do you have clear visibility into the maturity of your organisation and the steps you need to take to achieve your desired target state?

Rapid growth in storage, government regulations and a steady surge in business data are just some of the challenges IT executives are facing today; all while trying to manage costs, risk and service to the business. Recarta understands these challenges and helps you align your IT infrastructures with business needs and objectives.

The initial steps in this process are to understand where a business is in terms of IT service maturity. The Recarta Infrastructure Snapshot service enables you to identify the gaps between the maturity of your current environment and your target state. It identifies specific strategies for stabilising the current environment, defining and improving service levels, and improving processes and efficiency. It is a ‘light touch’ engagement from a customer perspective with minimal impact on daily activities.

As well as assessing your level of IT service maturity, the Infrastructure Snapshot service focuses on one or a combination of the following specific technology areas depending on where you are experiencing the most pain.

Storage

The Storage Snapshot will identify how the storage is currently being used:

Levels of storage utilisation
Highlights potential storage reclamation (includes how likely it is that the storage can be reclaimed)
Errors within the arrays in scope i.e. operational risk
Levels of tiering
RAID levels and overheads
Identifies areas for cost avoidance through storage reclamation

Backup

The Backup Snapshot will identify how backup is currently being used within the customer’s environment:

Levels of drive utilisation
Levels of tape utilisation
Backup capacity
Performance levels i.e. backup throughput
Backup and restore success rates
Identifies areas of potential cost avoidance through improved asset utilisation

Data Management

The Data Management Snapshot provides valuable information and output relating to how your file server environments are used. File server data profile analysis identifies:

File ageing
Duplicate files
Access profile
Usage by user
File type usage
Orphaned files
Identifies opportunities for de-duplication and archiving

Virtual Environment

The Virtual Environments Snapshot identifies whether your VMware virtual infrastructure has been deployed in accordance with Recarta best practices:

Virtual machine configuration
Host configuration including; ESX Service console set-up, Network Configuration, Storage configuration and vCentre management
Security configuration analysis
Identifies further consolidation options
Further cost savings
Improvements to stability and scalability