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Data Storage Services

Data is being generated at a faster rate than ever before from sources as disparate as blogs, wikis, instant messages and email, to RFID tags, video, e-commerce transactions and supply chains. According to a recent IDC report, the amount of digital information created, captured and replicated in 2006 was equal to 161 billion Gbytes and will soon surpass the amount of storage capacity available. To address this challenge, corporations must attract and retain the talent who can define the information management strategies and architect and design the storage solutions that best meet their business objectives.

Kelly IT Resources can help you meet this challenge while helping you reduce, manage and predict your IT storage costs, meet regulatory compliance, mitigate risk associated with data loss, implement and improve service level agreements, and maximize your hardware and software investments.

Service Offerings

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Disk storage: storage attached network (SAN) architecture, design, configuration, integration, and administration 
Networked attached storage (NAS): architecture, design, configuration, integration, and administration 
Tape storage (drives, libraries) 
Virtualization 
Data storage expansion and migration 
Data archiving, backup, and recovery

Delivery Capabilities

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Planning, Assessment and Selection—When you engage Kelly IT Resources during this initial phase you can expect unbiased, third-party, best-in-class consulting services. To provide you with a true and accurate assessment of your infrastructure, our experts will align and map out your functional and technical requirements, evaluate the existing and projected evolution of your storage infrastructure, and collaborate with you to understand your data policies and procedures. The result is a data storage road map to meet your long-term business goals. And, because Kelly IT Resources is technology agnostic, we will evaluate and recommend the software and hardware products that will best meet the needs of your business and stay within your budget.

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Architecture and Design—Our team of professionals will design a storage infrastructure that will meet your business, regulatory compliance, and technical objectives. Our storage architects will work with you to:
– Author the functional and technical design specifications
– Define architectural standards
– Design the logical and physical design
– Implement architectural prototypes
– Make recommendations for platform and software selection
– Identify risks
– Determine hardware and network requirements

Along the way, they will implement storage tools and processes to ensure a stable and secure storage environment, while advising on storage migration and configuration issues, and integrating new technologies into your existing environment.

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Testing—Handling the challenges and demands of testing storage equipment and systems can be a daunting task. That’s why Kelly IT Resources provides experts with years of experience in testing storage devices and systems. We test tape drives and libraries, disk drives and arrays, NAS and SAN devices, and virtualization systems. We also provide integration testing and design verification testing, which encompasses testing interface standards (iSCSI, SAS, Fibre, IP), performance testing, functional testing, device configuration, and stress and exception testing.

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Deployment and Change Management—Kelly IT Resources has the resources to help you deploy your storage solution. We can help you with project planning, as well as evaluate, order, and install software and hardware products. We will provide your staff with the necessary training, knowledge transfer, and documentation to support your environment and ensure you maximize your storage investment.

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Storage Administration, Maintenance and Support—Rapid implementation of storage systems and their complex nature has presented the need for IT personnel with specialized skill sets. Our storage professionals have the experience and specialty skills to manage complex, heterogeneous storage environments and are experts in safeguarding data and making it continuously available. Some of the areas that we support include storage capacity planning, data back-up, restoration, archiving, and duplication. Administering direct attached storage, NAS, SAN, and various storage topologies such as SCSI, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and InfiniBand® are also offered.