Technology Solutions

Tectrade’s prime objective is to improve business value in the data protection and storage management environments. We define business value as a combination of hard cost savings, improved service levels and operational efficiencies.

Our recommendations are based on a mix of product and services that deliver an agreed range of service levels, defined in a service catalogue. Our choice of product reflects the growing commoditisation in the data protection and storage market and is based on both best-of breed and good-enough technology. The main storage vendors all have products that address the most common requirements of the storage environment.

A consequence of falling prices and rapidly rising data volumes has been ad-hoc acquisition and a preference for low cost hardware over more expensive but intelligent storage. Typical issues arising from this ‘first wave’ of storage development are:

• Poor utilisation
• Increasing power and space requirements
• Slow response to new business projects
• Increasing management time
• Long and unreliable backup and recovery
• Inactive and low value data residing on expensive disk
• Increased complexity

Tectrade

Tectrade works with the major vendors to provide the most appropriate infrastructure that meets the solution design objectives. Tectrade will take the following aspects into consideration:

• Acquisition cost and cost of future upgrades
• Existing customer relationships or preference
• Running costs including environmental costs
• Maintenance costs and response SLAs
• Ease of management
• Scalability
• Ability to virtualise
• Ability to automate