Our in-house Data Management Professional Services team has been providing both strategic and operational consultancy services for more than a decade.

Strategic consultancy services are provided on a completely independent basis. Projects can range from Architectural Principles consultancy, helping our customers develop an appropriate data management strategy and turn this into effective storage architecture, to Request for Proposal (RFP) management and execution and Data Centre migration.

Operational consultancy usually involves our consultants working on-site on a residency basis. This enables you to supplement your own in-house resources or bridge skills gaps across technologies and techniques such as SAN/NAS, back-up and restore.

We can also provide you with managed services to ensure the availability, performance and service levels of your storage environment, giving you the freedom to focus on other project priorities, safe in the knowledge that the daily running of your storage environment is with someone you can trust.

We hold Storage vendor accreditations up to Expert level with our technology partners and methodology and industry certifications such as Prince 2 and SNIA. Our customers value our flexible engagement model, whether this involves supplementing their team or taking full ownership of a defined service or set of deliverables.

Backup & Recovery Assessment
This consulting engagement focuses on a specific backup domain within the customer’s IT environment. It analyses the common problems most organisations experience with data backup and recovery and recommends both tactical and strategic options to address these pain areas.

It is able to quickly identify the cause of backup and recovery issues and propose tactical and strategic solutions which enhance the way your business protects its data

Data Classification Assessment
Our tailored reporting from the raw data provides a valuable summary of the file share data which forms the basis of archiving, deletion and backup policies.

Every business has an increasing amount of file share data and understanding its make-up and storing it appropriately saves cost and improves efficiency.

Storage Infrastructure Review
This consulting engagement focuses on specific Storage Area Networks (SAN) within the customer’s IT environment. There are two aspects to the assessment. It combines analysis of the SAN configuration, comparing to best practice and recommends tactical improvements to increase availability and data protection. It also reviews how the SAN is designed and recommends strategic options and links these to service levels.

It ensures the original investment made in your SAN is maximised. It is able to quickly identify the cause of any current or imminent SAN issues and propose tactical and strategic solutions which enhance the way your business stores its most critical data.