Firmwire| The bridge between

Are you sitting in a hole, deep below the IT sea level, attempting daily to swim against the competition both internally and externally? If the fear of an efficient IT Eco System is prevalent in your mind but you are not getting the budget needed to bring your projects to life. Then now is the time to take a different approach and come out the hero for your organization.

Whatever the case may be, the time is now. You are the integral part that holds it all together. In order for you and your company to remain in the race, it has to grow. Since you have working knowledge of the bones and gristle of the operation it is time to look at this you are one of the teammates and not just the hired gun to handle the dirty work with the Data. Let me ask you this. Are you responsible when something goes wrong with the computers?  Then why not be responsible for taking an active approach in making sure that it never goes wrong?

Quite frankly for those that I have the pleasure of working with, they are taking very active roles to ensure that their organizations are on the forefront of technology usage.  If all 100 of the fortune 100 can adopt technology( Virtualization), that will make them move in the right direction and reduce long-term cost, then why not you?

I know that this is not simple. I know that there are many challenges, both financial and sorry to say emotional. For some companies that I work with, I am aware of the problems that they face and some I may not know what it is entirely. However we must begin, to work together, to figure out, the path least taken.  By beginning now, instead of waiting for the moment the exercise will become easy, and your thinking will become stronger…So to speak. Because from what I have experienced thus far, there is no short cut to the build you are looking for. You have to get down and dirty and feel the initial pain to form the body that produces the results on the court, field, and in this case in your company’s IT infrastructure.

So what is this approach you ask? It is not a simple one, but it can be simplified and broken into task. When you take the approach of attacking small pieces of it and sharing your midnight gripes with a trusted advisor you can become the champion. However you have to team up with your VAR and put aside the thinking that they are the item of the day shops.

I have the privilege to work with an industry leader that not only adds value to the IT industry; we stand behind it for the entire life of the solution. You can bet your bottom on that. Shameless plug and all, I say that to say this. It is important to take a different approach and spend a little more time. You will be lucky to find out what we can offer at CDW. To understand our partnerships with the leading IT brands is work itself, which is our job. I work with you, to understand your goals, to lay each brick one at a time right alongside you; I have a battalion of specialist that are certified to handle the grit of your goals. We handle the complex simplicities to maximize your time. So you can handle the hands on part of your deployments with accuracy.

So I will stop here to say. We work for you even when you cannot see IT. IT is our business, IT is my goal.

As many saunter around the idea that Storage is something to be taken lightly, may be costing themselves and their respective companies a great deal of avoidable expenditure. It is clear that some see storage as a necessary evil and it should not be looked at as such.

“Organizations of all sizes are looking for ways to improve the return on IT investments while better managing data growth and complex storage infrastructures. The need for high-availability, cost-effective performance, scalability and data protection is paramount – But budget, staff, and data center space are limited. Hitachi Data Systems can help”. It is that simple.

The team, from Hitachi Data Systems knows what the majority of IT professionals face. High Availability is the key to having a storage system that makes data available upon demand. This creates fluidity in data management that is missing in many cases, causing minor time lapses that add up throughout the year. These minor discrepancies turn out to be a larger once tallied; in turn your company is left with hours lost at the end of the fiscal year. The hours lost is the productivity that effected total dollars earned. To add insult to injury, chances are the cost to run this inefficient data camp, as I like to call it, may be costing you more than needed in energy cost.

Do you need to….

• Minimize the storage complexity accompanying business growth?
• Deliver higher levels of service level agreements cost effectively?
• Select a highly resilient enterprise quality modular storage system based on capacity, price, and performance?
• Reduce energy consumption while achieving uninterrupted data availability?

If this is so then perhaps it is time to consider the business benefits of Hitachi AMS Family:

1. Dramatically reduce time configuring with Hitachi Data Systems solution ready platforms that are certified compatible and interoperable with leading business applications.
2. Achieve greater flexibility and lower total cost of ownership by combining SAS and SATA II drives on the same tray.
3. Align the storage cost to the data’s value in a cost effective lower tier storage and virtualized storage environment.

I don’t want to leave out the juice of what is being poured out here.  Hitachi Data Systems has a stable foot print in the Fortune 500 arena, which gives them a clear understanding of what is needed across the board.

Don’t take my word for it. They are standing behind what they have to offer.  Read on