Storage Consultant
As demand for storage continues to grow at unprecedented rates, organisations are finding that managing and protecting data is taking up an increasing amount of IT budgets. IT departments are looking to reduce costs and simplify their storage infrastructures, and there is the opportunity for storage vendors, partners, resellers and service organisations to help customers use storage more intelligently.
Introducing SRA – Storage Resource Analysis
Storage Fusion’s light touch storage assessment service Storage Resource Analysis (SRA) helps you to provide storage audits for customers. At a pre-sales stage, or with existing customers, SRA creates opportunities to offer in-depth consulting on storage optimisation projects such as:
- Data centre migration and consolidation
- Vendor rationalisation
- Capacity planning
- Cloud migration
- Storage reclaimation
- Virtualisation analysis and much more
Storage Assessment Service
With SRA you can offer one-off storage assessments to existing and potential customers, or to provide storage audits as an ongoing service for customers. SRA is available as a SaaS solution, or for storage consultants running hundreds of assessments per year an on-premise solution can be provided.
Benefits at a glance
- Provides proven data and underpins the business case and proposals
- Gives you complete confidence when presenting to the client
- Provides transparency allowing executives to make purchasing decisions
- Minimises overheads in the sales process
- Easy to use and delivers significant value quickly
- Positions you as a trusted advisor – helping you to sell related storage services, such as backup or deduplication
SRA provides detailed analytics of an entire storage infrastructure within hours and cuts through the complexity of heterogeneous storage environments without the overhead of a team of consultants.
