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    • What is Data Storage Management?
    Data growth has become an inevitable reality of today’s business operations. Studies have cited that an organization's data can grow as much as 33% to 75% annually, partly due to the proliferate use of e-mails and our reluctance to permanently delete anything.

    Effective storage management solutions help transform your IT environment by standardizing and simplifying your storage environment in a flexible, systematic way. Solution components include storage area networks (SANs) as well as backup and storage applications.

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    What Data Storage Options Are Right For Me?
    It is important to consider hardware and software options together. CDW's highly-certified specialists can assist you with a wide array of storage options including:

    Hardware - Network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SANs) make several storage devices available to users regardless of the local or remote location of the storage device. This simplifies storage administration and adds flexibility to your storage environment. High Availability is another benefit of a SAN environment. By deploying replication software, you can move data to various locations on the network. In the event of a power failure, server crash or natural disaster, your data can be accessed through a remote part of the SAN.

    Software - The integration of backup, archiving, disaster recovery and replication software is key to the development of a solid data storage strategy.

    Backup software allows users to recover lost, deleted or corrupted files quickly and easily.

    Archiving software can complement backup software and help improve backup and recovery windows. This software allows for a systematic approach to managing your data and storage resources by using single instance storage, data lifecycle management technologies, and e-discovery capabilities.

    Disaster recovery software can be used to bring back systems downed by hardware failure in minutes. In addition, replication software can copy data between two or more servers to store complete copies of systems on multiple servers in the event of a disaster.



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    How will Data Storage Management Benefit Me?
    Improving data storage management capabilities are important to the overall state of your data center, and can deliver big benefits to your organization:

    Improve Efficiencies - Reduce administrative overhead and prioritize IT resources.

    Ease of Use - Central management storage systems allow for reduced maintenance features.

    Greater Scalability - Allows for future growth and flexibility.

    Information Lifecycle Management - Allows the greatest flexibility and use of resources by moving static files to less costly storage devices.

    Single Instance Store - Improves disk space by eliminating duplicate files saved across your network - without changing the way users save or access their files.


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    How Can CDW Help Me Get Started?
    CDW has developed a simple, yet comprehensive approach to data storage solutions that has proven successful for organizations of all kinds:  [+] Read More
    CDW has developed a simple, yet comprehensive approach to data storage solutions that has proven successful for organizations of all kinds.

    Step 1: Engage Your Account Manager
    Your CDW account manager and storage specialists will work with you to assess your current and future environment and deliver a solution that includes the right mix of hardware, software and services.

    Step 2: Assess and Design
    We begin by taking an environmental profile which includes what storage devices and protocols you utilize in-house, what your storage and disaster recovery needs are, and Storage Profile assessment results. Based on this detailed study, CDW will provide a best-in-class solution.

    Step 3: Implement
    CDW takes a comprehensive approach to implementation, installation and integration. Working together, we will design detailed configurations for your future environment, drawing from our enormous in-stock inventory. We work with multiple providers to deliver a data storage solution that fits seamlessly into your IT environment. We also offer complete software configuration and installation.

    Step 4: Manage
    CDW's commitment to your data storage solution continues long after your purchase. Certified technicians offer 24 x 7 telephone support for ongoing management needs, and you can always access online tech support through your My Account tab above. The My Account area also serves as a round-the-clock extension of your account manager: detailing your pricing, order status, account history and more.


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