|
When considering the IT infrastructure cost distribution, the Storage platform is often highlighted as a relatively expensive area as the financial constraints of IT budgets are squeezed. Furthermore the growth of data continues to increase significantly each year while business lines request higher levels of service. Storage related concerns that are currently facing IT Mangers are:
-
How to ensure the best technology with regards to the various business needs is implemented?
-
How to build a secure and scalable storage architecture?
-
How to integrate a storage platform into the disaster recovery plan?
-
How to centralise & automate storage management?
-
How to take into account the value of data according to its life cycle (DLM)
Storage Practice
MTI is a leader in providing unified storage solutions. MTI’s tailored solutions enable companies to implement the right infrastructure and storage platform for the right business application. MTI’s ability to understand a customers business and technical requirements is the key to a successful customer solution design and implementation. MTI then evaluate tiered storage needs and propose a class of storage using deferring technologies (FC, FCoE, SATA, iSCSI, SAS, Solid State Disk). MTI bases it’s storage practice on key investments made in staff & technology these investments enable MTI to work through it’s customer requirements for:
-
Business needs and technical assessment
-
Solution design & recommendations
-
Tiered storage and migration
-
Storage virtualisation
-
Storage deduplication
-
Storage automation
-
Proof of concept
-
Solution centre testing
-
Configuration & implementation
-
Tests plan and optimisation
-
Service & support
-
Refresh & development
Customer Business Needs & Issues
The IT organisations within MTI’s customers are managing rapidly changing business requirements, the explosive growth of data, coupled with the constraints that increased regulation and compliance place on the use of that data within their organisation. Business pressures also mean organisations have to maximise IT efficiency and reduce costs, both for staff and equipment. This means organisations are often resource constrained and need help to deploy solutions in a well organised, cost effective manner. MTI is well positioned to help companies manage these business issues with the key features and benefits of an MTI Storage Solution being:
-
Scalability and flexibility
-
Best in Class - innovation
-
Multi vendor
-
Multi product capability
-
Price performance & low TCO
-
Green IT (heat, light & power)
|
MTI Expertise
MTI’s core expertise is based upon its manufacturing heritage and 25 years of operating in the storage and technology industry. Over this period, MTI’s staff have developed key storage solutions and the service philosophy which is at the core of MTI’s business operation. MTI’s business is built on the following key capabilities:
-
Specialist in house expertise & knowledge
-
Staff continuity & longevity of service
-
Proven track record
-
Business processes
-
Customer focus & service
-
Storage vendor independence
-
Industry knowledge & best practice
-
Highest levels of certification with our key partners
These skills, knowledge base and work practices enable MTI to comprehend a customers business and IT problems. Then design, implement, test, service and maintain the solution on a 24x7x52 basis.
Key Partners
MTI has built up strategic partner relationships with key storage technology OEM vendors. These relationships capitalise on the partners market leading position, investment in technology, skill base and industry best practice. In utilising its partners capability, MTI combines their core competence, with it’s own core skills of delivering world class storage solutions. These three MTI partners are the basic storage product suppliers while we have more delivering specific solutions in the other storage related practices such as Information/Data Lifecycle Management (DLM), business continuity, backup and recovery and archiving.
Key Storage Partners are:
|