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Unified Data Storage

Efficiently store and manage your data. Make it work for you, now and in the future. NightSky Systems provides breakthrough value, with expansive knowledge and a comprehensive portfolio of services to meet today's demands, so you can realize your long-term business vision.

To succeed in today's open and ultra-competitive marketplace, you need an agile, secure IT environment that enables you to quickly, efficiently, and securely respond to business opportunities. NightSky Systems storage solutions are built on open standards to work with your existing infrastructure, and will help your company increase data's role as a strategic asset.

Data Protection

To keep ahead of rampant data growth, most companies have developed a strategy for organizing the information they create. Unfortunately, most attempts at "data classification" don't go deep enough, leaving some data assets unprotected while others are over-protected. This first report in the NightSky Systems Storage Strategy series explores the myths and realities of data classification, identifies seven key steps for getting a data classification initiative off to a good start, and shares best practices for controlling an ever-changing data environment.

Storage Optimization

An inefficient storage environment increases operating and capital costs, and places a silent, relentless drain on profits. This third report in the NightSky Systems Storage Strategy series identifies hidden storage-related expenses, explores five recommendations for optimizing the storage environment to control costs, and presents key considerations for conducting a full assessment of the storage environment. It also defines the four levels of "tiered" storage, and describes how a bellwether of the insurance industry was able to drive costs out of its operation by optimizing its storage environment.

Storage Management

Every Business must cope with a storage environment that grows larger each year. This fourth report in the NightSky Systems Storage Strategy series explores how outsourcing part of the storage environment can keep the costs and challenges of storage management under control. The report identifies the four steps that every company must take when moving to a managed storage environment, discusses key considerations for working with a third-party vendor, highlights ten IT tasks that are often good candidates for outsourcing, and explains the difference between outsourcing and selective sourcing.

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We deliver a set of scalable solutions based on Open System storage technology that meet a variety of companies' needs--from large global organizations to small businesses. Work with NightSky Systems Services to plan a solution that transforms storage into a flexible, enterprise-wide resource that will support your business into the future.

We offer:

  • A comprehensive services portfolio that includes IT consulting, systems integration, installation and startup services, migration support, maintenance, outsourcing, and recovery services.
  • A single point of accountability to help you reduce the complexity of your computing environment, manage your systems, and protect your IT investments.
  • An approach that takes into account your organization's entire IT environment.
  • Support for the most complex, distributed heterogeneous storage area networks (SANs) and storage products across multiple operating systems and platforms.

 

Only NightSky Systems can deliver a full set of lifecycle services that help you plan, design, implement, integrate, support, and manage your storage infrastructure as part of your overall computing environment. Find out how we can help you reduce your risks, optimize your IT infrastructure investments, and maintain a competitive edge.

Get your storage system implementation right-right from the start

Installation, startup and configuration of your RAID storage subsystem can be complex, time-intensive jobs. Be sure they are done right the first time with time-saving, cost-saving support from NightSky Systems service professionals.

Two value-priced service packages let you choose the exact assistance you need: comprehensive support spanning installation of your new NightSky Systems storage subsystems as well as configuration of RAID StorageSets for those subsystems; or optimization of RAID arrays into StorageSets on subsystems that have already been installed.

Both options help you minimize disruptive startup glitches, maximize storage capacity utilization, simplify planning and budgeting, and substantially shorten your time-to-results.

NightSky Systems Professional Services storage consultants have expertise well beyond traditional storage boundaries. They understand the complicated interdependencies between storage and other enterprise computing infrastructure issues, gained through years of mission-critical experience with global clients.

Whether you need a straight-forward Storage Assessment or a highly complex Storage Infrastructure, NightSky Systems Professional Services consultants have the expertise to help you do it right the first time.

Capacity and scalability. With some systems capable of storing hundreds of drives in a single cabinet, NightSky Systems storage solutions provide high disk density in rack-mounted enclosures. They can scale from gigabytes up to terabytes as information storage demands increase. These storage systems enable service providers to scale up and down quickly, with modular units of storage, to meet fast-changing requirements without overbuying storage capacity. This helps reduce total cost of ownership -- particularly important for growing businesses, who can add capability in increments, protecting their investments and minimizing risk.

Reliability. Service providers need rugged, reliable storage solutions.

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Serviceability. NightSky Systems storage solutions can be monitored remotely over the network. Our storage soltuion systems feature hot-swap components that enable fast and easy service and redeployment while the system remains online.

Manageability. NightSky Systems uses standards technologies that aims to develop an open framework for creating and deploying storage data and management services. A standard that will facilitate the interoperability of independent software services and hardware in a storage area network (SAN) -- interconnected storage systems that provide ease of access, scalability and vendor freedom of choice. It will also make it easier to integrate new technology.

NightSky Systems Storage Solutions are comprised of:

  • Storage Assessment
  • Storage Infrastructure
  • Storage Management

Storage Assessment

A NightSky Systems Professional Services Storage Assessment can help you quickly determine storage issues that may be impacting your ability to meet Service Level Agreements or other goals. It can also help you determine if your organization is using the best practices to do the job. Architecture Assessment.

A periodic Backup and Restore Assessment is also advisable. A continuing series of minor changes to your storage environment can eventually have a profound and deleterious effect on Backup and Restore expectations. Having designed extremely sophisticated backup architectures, our storage experts can help you control your total storage environment.

Storage Infrastructure

Information growth and the need to reduce costs are major issues for customers today. These two factors often create conflict within an enterprise as IT organizations try to meet the needs of customers and stay within budget requirements. The key to success lies in starting with the right storage architecture.

Storage Management

With the dramatic increases in customer data, storage management tools and skills are essential for meeting and maintaining Service Level Agreements. More important, you can gain control of storage assets in order to maximize your current storage investment.

NightSky Systems Professional Services can assist customers with the implementation of a complete storage management solution that meets unique customer requirements.

NightSky Systems offers a comprehensive set of management tools; Storage Resource Manager. Using these tools, NightSky Systems storage consultants can help you plan and implement Storage Consolidation and Data Replication activities, institute chargeback procedures, better forecast the use and acquisition of storage, find and make use of unused capacity and improve storage performance.