Infrastructure simplification

Growth in complexity is inherent in storage infrastructures. Faced with rapidly growth in storage capacity requirements, evolving application requirements, and changing technology - complexity and operational costs will tend to escalate if unchecked.

Storage infrastructure complexity can manifest itself in many ways; multiple and incompatible storage technologies, poor utilization of storage assets, interoperability issues, and multiple storage administration and management tools.

Bull’s infrastructure simplification solutions focus on a number of areas that work directly to reduce complexity and IT costs:

Consolidating storage assets to increase utilization levels and to reduce the number of active storage components in the infrastructure
Virtualizing disk and tape storage assets in order to increase flexibility, pool storage resources, and reduce the number of administration and data management tools
Implementing tiered storage architectures to reduce cost by storing data on different media according to performance, availability and recovery requirements
Aligning storage costs with actual storage usage in order to reduce capital and operation costs