Reducing Your Digital Footprint™

Customers are increasingly challenged by how quickly the complexity of their Server, Storage and Network environments can grow. Costs are increasingly escalating and keeping track of infrastructure resources is a challenge in every data center. CIOs and IT Managers are striving to reduce costs and at the same time maintain and/or improve productivity and infrastructure resources.

The size and complexity of an organizations digital footprint includes many components. These include hardware including servers, storage and peripherals, the amount of data contained in a multitude of media types, the space and power requirements to operate the data center and remote locations.

The size of your digital footprint, how it is structured and managed affects a multitude of factors within any IT organization. These include; administration of the IT infrastructure, human resource, space requirements, power/cooling requirements and many others. Ultimately, it affects existing costs associated with day-to-day operations. It also affects future costs and the ability to use your existing infrastructure effectively and adopt new technologies that will enable you to compete in these challenging economic times.

Some of the granular challenges that are associated with the size of your digital footprint are:

• Backups and Restores are taking longer.
• Slow data recovery and application restart for DR scenarios.
• Server and Storage virtualization are not effectively managed.
• Consolidation and data migration is difficult.
• Storage DAS/SAN/NAS performance issues.
• Server performance distribution issues.
• LAN/WAN Performance problems
• RPO/RTO requirements are not being met.
• Archiving data is difficult.
• Compliance liabilities and archiving data is difficult to manage.
• Human resources are stretched.
• Space, power and cooling requirements are costly.
• Service level agreements are not being met.
• Too many hardware and software upgrades.

Total Tec has developed a comprehensive set of assessments, practices and solutions that reduce your digital footprint and enables you to quickly identify your data center challenges with recommendations for cost effective solutions. This starts with a comprehensive set of assessments followed by recommendations and solutions that are installed and deployed by Total Tec. In many cases these assessments are free of charge. Each segment of our Assessment Service has a complimentary offering to acquaint new and existing clients with our digital footprint reduction practices, Capacity Planning, Consolidation or Transition Services.

They are designed to give clear visibility into the alternatives and savings potential within the infrastructure. Some of the benefits of reducing your digital footprint are:

• Reduce your CAPEX & OPEX.
• Decrease storage & server real estate.
• Shorten time for data protection & recovery.
• Increase availability and performance.
• Exceed service level agreement commitments.
• Reduce your compliance liabilities through archiving.
• Reduce power and cooling costs.
• Reduce your carbon footprint.

Our digital footprint assessment services enable you to quickly identify your data center challenges and recommend a cost effective solution. In many cases these assessments are free of charge. Each segment of our Assessment Service has a complimentary offering to acquaint new and existing clients with our Capacity Planning, Consolidation or Transition Services. The following are some examples of how to reduce your digital footprint:

• Turn physical servers into virtual machines.
• Cut your primary storage by 50%.
• Eliminate your backup window.
• Archive older data.
• Eliminate duplicate copies of data.
• Cut media cost in half.
• Increase management efficiency.
• Let Total Tec show you how.

Contact us for quick conversation on how to reduce your digital footprint with no strings attached, and if you wish, we will schedule an onsite visit for a free initial assessment of your environment.

Please contact Sedim Al-Araji (732).590.7123 email: Sedim.AlAraji@totaltec.com