SANpulse Eases Data Center Consolidation for Global 250 Financial Services Firms

July 28, 2010 - PRLog -- SANpulse Technologies, Inc. today announced that multiple Global 250 financial services firms have dramatically reduced data center costs by accelerating consolidation projects and optimizing resources using SANlogics™. SANlogics has delivered the flexibility and performance financial services organizations require to simplify and automate data migration processes so that they can transform and consolidate data center properties and reduce hardware, floor space and power costs.

“Data migrations and consolidations have traditionally been exceptionally expensive, time consuming and difficult. Typically, these projects have been manually intensive, error prone and plagued with delays,” said Bob Laliberte, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “However, SANpulse developed technology combined with specialized resources and processes to deliver migration services proven to reduce time, risk and cost. Given the recent mergers, acquisitions and subsequent data center consolidation efforts in the financial services industry, the SANpulse solution has provided significant value to a number of these institutions.”

For one Fortune 100 financial services firm, SANpulse migrated and transformed 257 hosts and 104TB spanning six data centers in just two weekend migration windows. The resulting data center consolidation expedited the adoption of new technologies which resulted in double digit operational efficiencies without any additional delivery resources. Because of the migration efficiency and speed, this financial services organization was able to exit data centers on time, avoiding $1.5 million in lease penalties. As a result, this firm also achieved significant consolidation cost savings through the reduction of both floor space and power.

Financial services organizations using SANlogics see the following advantages:

Reduced Project Costs – SANlogics automates the migration process resulting in a minimal number of resources required for data migration initiatives, while maximizing the ROI on existing investments through the optimization of installed storage infrastructure. The ability to provide an in-depth comprehensive analysis of the entire infrastructure results in accurate planning and mitigation of potential risks in the migration process.

Reduced Project Timeline – With preparation that includes in-depth data aggregation, process automation and self-generating actionable outputs, SANlogics expedites data migration and moves over five times more data during each migration when compared to traditional methods. With SANlogics, SANpulse financial services clients have experienced significant timeline reductions in all phases of migration: planning phases have been reduced by over 65%; implementation phases have been reduced by over 85%; and execution phases have been reduced by over 50%. This reduction in time results in greater utilization of a finite hardware lifecycle.

Minimized Risk Factors and Human Errors – SANlogics dramatically reduces the risk of human error with its automated outputs, instant application of system changes according to real-time business requirements, and rapid identification of road blocks and non-disruptive remedies.

Ensured Business Efficiencies, Organization-Wide – Through enterprise-wide standardization, turnkey readiness and compliance with standards, SANpulse allows financial services organizations to align independent business units in operational synergy during SAN migration and optimization projects.

Increased ROI on Current Storage Hardware – By identifying misconfigured storage, SANlogics enables financial services firms to more efficiently use storage space on existing arrays, thereby reducing additional capital expenditure.

“SANpulse continues its successful track record in the financial services vertical, ensuring on-time and on-budget transformation of storage infrastructures of some of the largest global firms in the industry,” said SANpulse CEO Peter Mehta. “We understand the importance and impact that every second has in the global financial arena. Our ability to automate processes in a data migration life cycle assures customers of mitigating outages while transforming their infrastructure and ensuring project completion in a timely manner.”

About SANlogics
SANlogics is an innovative, multi-vendor software platform that simplifies and accelerates SAN migration, consolidation, and infrastructure optimization. The patent-pending technology combines on-demand data analysis, business-process aware functionality, and rapid execution into a powerful solution that Fortune 500 organizations leverage to upgrade and optimize their IT storage infrastructures.

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Resources:
SANpulse End-to-End Automated Data Migration and Data Center Consolidation
Industry Analyst Insights on SANpulse Technologies
ESG Lab Validation Report: SANpulse

About SANpulse Technologies, Inc.
SANpulse paves the path to next generation data centers, transforming the world’s largest IT infrastructures and creating efficiencies to help reduce IT-related operational and capital expenses. SANpulse solutions mitigate the risk of navigating complex data center infrastructures through actionable insight by leveraging the company’s modular software platform, SANlogics. SANlogics adaptive technology supports organizations in meeting new technology and business requirements through discovery, analytics and auto-generation of executables that simplify data center migration, consolidation and optimization processes. Since its inception in 2005, SANpulse has helped Fortune 500 clients across the globe from a variety of industries maximize the efficiency of their storage infrastructure, mitigate risk and guarantee greater business agility. SANpulse is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, with regional offices in Dallas, TX, Tampa, FL, and London, UK. For more information, please visit www.SANpulse.com

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