The ECS Storage Optimizer™ – Providing Optimal Storage Capacity for Your Business
Storage is no longer simply an afterthought to other high-profile IT initiatives. It is now a critical component of an organization’s IT strategy – and has the power to provide significant competitive advantage. Conversely, the lack of an adequate storage strategy can put the organization at potentially disastrous risk.

As both a HP Platinum-Level Partner and Microsoft Certified Partner, ECS is ideally positioned to provide full storage solutions that leverage your organization’s most important asset: information. While there are many storage alternatives available today, ECS provides the optimal solution that clearly meets all your particular needs at the best price.

Are You Getting What You Need?
Most IT vendors today are either overselling or underselling storage to their customers. This is a result of a complicated combination of factors: inadequately assessing the current storage environment, recommending systems that cover current demands without regard to price and optimal functionality, not fully understanding the organization’s future direction and corresponding storage requirements, and a lack of a flexible and periodic management tool that ensures the organization maintains the optimal level of storage resources.

Storage Optimizer is the Answer
The exclusive ECS Storage Optimizer provides a comprehensive suite of solutions that assist you in efficient planning, rapid deploying, and effectively operating your storage environment. It’s an effective storage solution that provides data integrity, data availability, performance and management. ECS combines its sophisticated services with HP’s best technology to meet your specific storage challenges, including:

• SAN and NAS
• Direct Attached Storage
• Virtual Arrays (VA) and Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA)
• Tape Libraries
• Storage Management Software

A Full Suite of Services
Storage Optimizer provides a suite of critical services that delivers the optimal storage solution for your business:

• Network Storage Assessment
• Storage Consolidation
• Data Replication
• SAN and NAS Design and Deployment
• Backup and Recovery Design and Deployment
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Continuing Management and Maintenance

See the Real Difference
What sets ECS apart from the rest is our unique approach to optimizing your storage environment. While thousands of companies routinely overpay 10-20% for storage assets they don’t need, our customers benefit from a proprietary methodology that focuses on their existing environment and the expected storage needs at specific points in the future. This ensures that companies only pay for what they need, and have the flexibility to add storage when they need it – at remarkably reduced rates. ECS includes critical Disaster Recovery planning as a component to our solution. This truly optimizes your storage environment by providing more than just an insurance policy against disaster. Disaster Recovery is coupled with Business Intelligence to provide integrated business functionality that benefits your organization from Day One.

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