Our unprecedented resources, record breaking work history, clients' raves, are a few of the reason Consolidated Data Storage is your best option when it comes to a partner who can help get you
the best start at a datacenter customer's engagement.
Our thorough understanding of how your enterprise storage interracts with open systems continues to add value to our customers’ environment. While years of industry experience help us in quick
problem resolution, a team of top gun architects and engineers from different storage technology backgrounds help in prompt decision making in architecture or re-architecture especially in an
end-of-life support situations.
Find below a few of our success stories:
New York 3,100-Bed Hospital Group - The total operating cost of this Healthcare Partnership is about $2.1 billion. With our extensive and comprehensive knowledge of HIPAA, FDA regulation and certifications, CDS hit the ground running with storage re-architecture, consolidation and data migration from EMC Symmetrix to IBM DS8300. We saved this Hospital Group over $1,850,000 in operational and infrastructural budget over one and half years. Operational downtime cost has since been reduced by 94%.
Chicago Based Insurance Company - Consolidated Data Storage demonstrated storage vendor agnostic expertise in this datacenter move from downtown Chicago to Aurora IL. CDS came in and took leadership in the data storage aspect of the datacenter move. We leveraged our thorough understanding of both server and storage sides of the enterprise in migrating hundreds of terabytes of data from old Symmetrix to new EMC DMXs in a 96% AIX UNIX environment. We configured and started EMC SRDF replication and over 90% in storage capacity and business continuity managed services costs have been recorded and maintained.
Manufacturing Company in Albuquerque, NM - CDS planned and implemented the first SAN for this manufacturer. Based on the assessment of the customer’s environment , the innovation and recommendation we brought in were to have all hosts boot from an IBM SAN. Our involvement here was from start to finish - rack, stack, implement, configure, provision, deliver the IBMDS4800 SAN and IBM H Class Blade Chassis environment. Storage utilization and management has been kept under control. Ease of management and low storage budget has since been maintained at this customer environment.
County Public School System, GA - The following gains resulted from CDS’ successful implementation of the IBM SVC for the storage environment at this Public School System of GA:
85% reduction in storage operation time
90% reduction in multi-vendor storage related licensing
52% reduction in annual storage infrastructural maintenance budget
Over $150,000.00 per year in power savings.
Financial & Credit Card Settlement Company, Roswell, GA - Storage Virtualization achieved by externalization - CDS expertise in virtualization by externalization of two (2) HP EVA8100, two (2) Hitachi USP, six HP MSA1500, behind a Hitachi USPV. Customer s’ environment was improved by:
Over $800,000.00 annual savings in multi-vendor replication and SRM tool
73% increase in storage computing capacity
Ease of management achieved from Thin Provisioning and Zero Page Reclaim.
IT Department at a large bank, Sandy Springs, GA - Storage assessment of the Host, Fabric and Storage Controller layers. A thorough assessment of the customer’s storage infrastructure, tuning and re-architecture of both fabric and storage controller layer brought about: 88% increase in response time.
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