• Contact us
• To discuss how we can help make your business sharper, get in touch:
  0800 014 7420
  Click here to email us

Email this page to a friend

Print this page

Submit feedback on this page

Home Services Manage And Transform Managed Datacenter Storage Management

Storage Management

Computacenter offer Managed Storage services backed by leading Tier 1 & 2 Storage vendors that can address the growing challenges of data proliferation in a world of declining IT budgets

A service component of our Managed Datacenter solution.

What we do

Without effective storage infrastructure and strategies in place, businesses can find themselves drowning in duplicated and non-meaningful data. This not only impacts operational efficiency but also results in higher operational costs and a loss of agility.

With extensive IT infrastructure expertise, Computacenter can offer Managed Storage Services including;

• Proactive management of Storage Infrastructure for SAN, NAS, backup, recovery & archive environments
  
• Comprehensive monitoring of the storage environment with proactive reporting & capacity management to improve visibility of storage performance & utilisation
  
• Cost-effective Business Continuity services to protect systems & data & increase business security
  
• Storage optimisation services to include data classification, de-duplication & compression as well as Thin provisioning to optimise storage processes & operations
  

We help organisations take a holistic approach by unifying storage strategies and infrastructure that maximises utilisation and minimises cost & risk - backed by comprehensive storage optimisation expertise and leading vendors.

How it helps

Customers can realise greater return on investment and increased efficiencies for their data storage infrastructure.

Improved storage utilisation & agility:
Computacenter provides Managed Storage solutions where the business value of the storage infrastructure is clearly understood and viewed as a business growth enabler and strategic business asset. Data is managed from cradle to grave in a seamless, transparent manner so as to be non-disruptive to the business and users.

Reduced costs:
Managed Storage Services allow an organisation to better plan their investments for data storage, focusing on long-term goals of availability, manageability and cost effectiveness ensuring customers maximise the impact of their technology investments.

Data storage costs can be controlled and better planned with a greater percentage of investment being utilised. Leveraging our vendor relationships, organisations are able to adopt new technology faster and with less risk and be more aware of the strategic value of its storage infrastructure.

Why we are different

Vendor Independence
As a vendor-independent organisation however, Computacenter has skills reaching across all major server, storage and application vendors to enable the delivery of an unrivalled level of infrastructure and software integration. This allows Computacenter to offer best of breed solutions from available technology, without reliance on a single vendor.

Depth of Skill
Computacenter's capabilities cover all leading software and infrastructure vendors in the field of storage & data, and we retain technology experts with the highest level of accreditations and practical experience in their respective fields.

Repeatable Best Practice
Computacenter's Shared Services Factory is designed to remove complexity, ensure the adoption of best practice, and continuously raise service quality and reduce costs through the reuse of intellectual property (IP). This innovative approach captures key elements of our most successful projects and creates a flexible set of standards that we can apply across future initiatives.

Where we have done it

Computacenter has been working with major tier 1 and 2 storage vendors [e.g. EMC, IBM, HDS, NetApp, HP] for over 15 years, some since Computacenter's founding in 1981.

Our Partner status with these major vendors allows us to be involved in early adopter and consultancy programmes providing us with leading-edge knowledge and experience yet allows Computacenter to retain a vendor agnostic approach to storage management.

Computacenter's end-to-end service capability means we have the insight to help effectively design, build, test, and manage IT infrastructures. This means solutions can be implemented according to plan with less cost, less time and greater certainty.

Our strength & depth of partnerships, as well as skills and capabilities, can be demonstrated through the development of the EMC Signature Centre.

Developed in partnership between EMC and Computacenter, it's one of just 5 such centres in Europe and the only of its kind in the United Kingdom.