Data Management

Want to Gain Control of Your Storage Environment?

Complete. Integrated. Innovative. Turn to 2e2 for storage solutions that combine best-of-breed technologies from our storage vendors with our hands-on experience in the field. Our team provides strategic consultancy that spans all the potential needs of an organisation – from inception to the retirement of storage requirements. You can trust us to help reduce your overall costs and maximise storage efficiency.

The growth of Storage Area Networks (SANs) and the reduced cost of disks, means that buying more storage is often seen as the simplest and cheapest way of dealing with growing demands. The result? Uncontrolled growth and complexity of storage environments.

Our proven strategies put you back in control. We’ll help you make the best use of your current environments and move towards an even more efficient, automated environment. So you’re gaining more than storage space: you’re simplifying management, while increasing capacity, flexibility and efficiency. We’ll also show you how to tap hidden capacity and rein in spiraling costs, so you’re doing more with less.

2e2 focuses on a number of core areas to assist you in defining and optimising your storage:

Data protection: We’ll implement effective back-up and recovery solutions to protect your most valued asset, and meet corporate governance needs.

Management: As your environment evolves, we’ll employ effective management and reporting tools.

Virtualisation: Virtualisation technologies significantly improve utilisation and performance, while driving down Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Migration: Whether you’re implementing new arrays or moving to a new data centre, we’ll ensure data integrity and minimum disruption to business all the way.

Consolidation: Say goodbye to dispersed, redundant information systems, networks and applications that no longer keep pace with today’s fast-changing business demands. Streamline your IT infrastructure and gain speed, new capabilities and greater efficiency.

Disaster recovery and business continuity: This cluster technology ensures that a business-critical application is available at all times. You’re also guarded against critical hardware and software failures, thanks to a second “stand-by” environment.

Archival: An effective archiving strategy ensures that ageing data is not stored on expensive storage disks and is only backed up when data changes.

Speak to us! From distributed and consolidated through to fully automated – we’ll show you what you have and how much more it can do. Above all, we’ll help define a road map for the future.

Failure is not an option: data availability and recovery

There’s more to business continuity than disaster recovery. Careful, comprehensive planning helps ensure that all your people, processes and systems are always up and running, regardless of disruptions to the workplace. You can trust 2e2 with your planning needs. More than continuous access to data, you’ll have access to experienced professionals devoted to your IT, security and business continuity.

The huge increase in data volumes and the range of applications your data relies on, makes an effective availability strategy all the more complicated. Many companies remain exposed, choosing not to address the issue until they have experienced downtime firsthand. Are you confident that your data and applications are continuously available, anytime and anywhere? What about during scheduled system downtime for server upgrades and backups – or during unplanned downtime caused by fires or other natural disasters?

An availability strategy with 2e2 helps ensure that outages are limited and data restores easily facilitated, for a wealth of business benefits, including: increased availability, continuity and security – for greater productivity and reduced revenue losses through downtime. When you simplify manageability, you’re freeing up administrators for other tasks, so you’re improving service levels.

Benefit from our specialist expertise in “high-availability” solutions, such as:

• Cluster Services
• Oracle RAC
• Data Mirroring
• Data Replication
• HA Solutions from IBM, HP, SUN, EMC, Symantec, NetApps and many more

Uninterrupted access to critical data and systems – that’s what information availability is all about. And what we will help you achieve. Equipped with our reliable disaster recovery solutions, you’ll be operating with confidence 24x7 – despite planned or unplanned outages. So it’s just business as usual.

As the amount of data that companies are storing continues to grow, so does the scrutiny around the security, storage and proper use of that information.

Stringent regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley and Basel II have put the spotlight firmly on businesses to better manage and consolidate their internal processes. Could you quickly present a 12-month-old email, file or database entry that’s been archived along with a billion or so others? If not, speak to 2e2 about a tailored solution.

Regulations demand the retention of information for longer periods of time – as well as its timely discovery. So apart from needing to reduce the cost of managing and storing ever-increasing volumes of information, you’re under pressure to keep data accessible and secure. A company that does not adequately manage this vital resource may also face increased legal exposure during Human Resource issues or legal disputes.

An effective Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) policy is fast access to the critical information that your company – or regulatory agencies – needs immediately. It puts you back in the driver’s seat as you improve control of exploding storage, and it extends even further: for gains in efficiency and performance, while lowering TCO by optimising storage.

We have the advisory and execution services to plan, implement and maintain a solution that meets your needs. We’ll focus on the guidelines that apply to your company and the vertical sector you operate in. Our Data Management tools and services can help:

• Save space and cut costs as you reclaim up to 80% of your data storage
• Improve performance as you reduce server load
• Reduce risk of corporate information loss, as you tightly control the retention and automatic deletion of data, and efficiently retrieve all content

It’s time to do more than just stay on the right side of regulators! Compliance is an opportunity to improve operations for a measurable impact on your business.

Over time, the value of information changes – it could be a critical element for legal discovery or just data cluttering your storage. Based on its changing value to your organisation, data requires different levels of accessibility and protection. That’s Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). We’re dedicated to placing control of it firmly in your hands.

Information is doubling every 18 months and 85% of it is unstructured. More than just information, data is a critical corporate asset that needs to be captured, managed, retained and delivered effectively and efficiently. This should be done in a way that reduces cost, and enables business continuity, performance and security, while allowing you to meet regulatory and business compliance with ease.

2e2 has a suite of solutions and best-of-breed tools that work across your information value chain to capture, manage, retain and deliver data – from the moment it is created to the time it becomes obsolete.

Our experts will familiarise themselves with your environment, then work with you to plan and deliver a solution tailored to your information, governance and needs. The 2e2 Data Management Solution stops uncontrolled storage growth and reduces recovery times by moving stale data to secondary storage. Automated policy-driven control of your resources frees IT personnel up from this tedious task, and enhances business performance.

Speak to us about an effective, long-term ILM policy that transforms data into accessible, relevant business information. You’ll easily meet changing needs, leverage information for better business performance and automate the management and sharing of information throughout its lifecycle – all while reducing the cost of data management. And best of all? You’re in control.

The health of today’s businesses depends on their access to critical IT services and information. More than lost access to vital corporate knowledge, virtually any downtime can cause lost productivity, lost revenue, lost customers and lost opportunities. Companies need to be prepared for a full range of threats to the availability and stability of their infrastructure. How resilient is your IT?

Whether between colleagues and sales channels or manufacturers, the continuous sharing of information is crucial to business. Especially with the development of global supply chains and distributed engineering processes, the availability of mission-critical business processes is critical to profitability in today’s business environment.

As a result, IT departments are under pressure to provide 24 x 7 operations and shrink the window for backup and planned downtime. They must also be proactive in preventing and anticipating risk, as well as responding rapidly should downtime occur.

Whether communications disruptions, application issues and unexpected peaks in traffic, or full-scale disasters, we can help you manage risk and maintain continual business operations. We’ll assess your business needs, help prioritise risk, then design, build and manage resilient business continuity and availability solutions for your critical processes.

Your IT infrastructure should be able to meet changing industry conditions and challenges, while driving cost efficiency throughout the information lifecycle. Our end-to-end products and services help continuously improve your operations, so that you’re delivering key performance – whatever the circumstances.