Services

Assess + Consult

A Business and Technical Needs Analysis to Produce the Right Solution for You

See new solutions and develop technology requirements to support your business with our assessment and consulting services. We evaluate your IT environment for successful adoption of complex new technologies for business continuity, storage management, tiered storage, virtualization and thin provisioning. We offer expertise and proven methodologies to assess your storage infrastructure, improve operational efficiencies, reduce your exposure to risk and drive greater value to your business. Our experts can prepare economic justifications for your investments in storage infrastructure.

Plan + Design

Reduce Risk in New Technology Planning, Design, and Implementation

Use the expertise and proven methodologies of ETA consultants to plan and design a solution that is right for you. Involve us in projects including:

Virtualization
Thin provisioning
Storage management
Tiered storage
Performance improvement
Business continuity
File services
Data migration

You specify the requirements. We’ll research your environment and generate a plan to satisfy your precise service level objectives. If you also need economic justification, our Risk Analysis and Management Workshop or Storage Economics Consulting services can help.

Install + Implement

Get the Most from Your Existing Storage Investments

Exploit the capabilities you’ve already purchased. We know how to customize, transition and make your solutions operational. Through continuous improvement of our Implementation Services we ensure you have low-risk, rapid, accurate deployments of our software and hardware technologies. Our proven methodologies and best practices accelerate your return on assets and on your investments. They also help you realize OPEX and CAPEX savings.

Non-disruptive Migration Service

Eliminate Downtime While Reducing Risk

Our non-disruptive migration service capability is the industry’s first storage migration solution that eliminates host and application downtime when migrating from enterprise storage to a Virtual Storage Platform (VSP).

Significantly reduce risk, eliminate business disruption, and more efficiently manage migration processes across multivendor storage systems.
Reduce effort by 90% compared to industry averages.

Integrate + Transition

Adopt New Technologies and Energize Your Storage Environment

Gain clear advantages from the adoption of new technologies through ETA’s integration and transition capabilities.

Our expertise, methodologies and best practices have been proven in hundreds of complex, any-method, multi-migration deployments over the years.
Whether you’re considering host-based, replication or virtualized data migrations using appliances, we’ll assure the smoothest transition and risk-free, no-surprise results.

Manage and Optimize

The Industry's Best People, Products, Tools and Methodologies to Maximize Return on your IT Investments

No time or qualified resources? No problem. Our onsite and remote consultants deliver the exact assistance, knowledge and support you need, exactly when you need it and for as long as you need it. We can develop flexible approaches to optimize performance, successfully manage and carefully align your storage environment to your established service level requirements.We apply Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) principles and best practices to manage your infrastructure. This ranges from zoning and storage allocations to 24/7 monitoring, performance assessments and health checks to fully managed support.

Our team of experts will help you:

Lower risk
Reduce operational costs
Fill critical staff or skill set gaps
Improve operational efficiencies
Meet service level objectives
Optimize your technology investment

Our customizable Managed Services include: