When assessing your storage requirements, our storage consultants determine the true nature of your business and data, including issues of financial and other regulatory compliance as related to data availability, the need for specific capacity and scalability for the movement, management and cataloguing of all types of multimedia files and the storage of multiple file types from varied enterprise and desktop applications and databases.

Derive’s strategic partnerships with the world’s leading manufacturers of storage hardware and software enable us to provide objective, single or multi-platform solutions which are the best fit for your enterprise.

Key Focus Areas:

• Networked Storage (SAN and NAS).
• Data Protection/Backup.
• High Availability and Clustering Technologies.
• Storage and Server Consolidation.
• Storage Management Software.
• Application-Specific Storage Solutions: For Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003. Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster.

Key Partners:

• HP, Microsoft, VMware, Overland Storage

NETWORKED STORAGE

Derive Technologies can help you to take control of ever-increasing volumes and complexity of data with complete, customized storage solutions that simplify your current infrastructure. We provide networked storage solutions with business-focused support, which enables high availability, scalability and security. We drastically reduce administrative costs by centralizing network storage into single Storage Area network (SAN), Network-Attached Storage (NAS) or Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) configurations that improve backup and recovery, as well as day-to-day storage management.

Key Benefits:

• Improved utilization of corporate assets.
• Compliant systems.
• Secure data: Shared across your entire enterprise.
• Simplified, automated information management.
• New software tools: That create the ultimate storage pool.
• Enriched data protection: Through data replication and tape backup.
• Cost-effective, 24x7 access and information protection.
• Increased bandwidth: As well as greater overall performance.
• Scalable, “pay-only-as-you-grow” technology purchasing.

 
DATA PROTECTION AND BACKUP

Derive Technologies can provide solutions to the long-standing issue of protecting your critical information assets—from desktops and notebooks to servers that run your core business systems. Our Data Protection Service (DPS) -- offered through Derive Technical Services -- gives you a range of options from traditional tape and disk-based solutions, to low-cost magneto-optical solutions that are cost-effective and bullet-proof.

Key Benefits:

• Greater efficiency and performance: With less equipment.
• Dramatic increases in data security and availability.

 
REAL-TIME DATA REPLICATION

Derive Technologies eliminates downtime with highly available, real-time Data Replication business strategies and technologies that protect your most critical systems and data. Using products, such as HP’s award-winning StorageWorks Continuous Access Software to Cisco’s line of powerful Fibre Channel switches and routers, our consultants provide solutions that meet all of your data replication requirements.

Key Benefits:

• Continuous data up-time.
• Reduced threat of data loss: When circumstances threaten ongoing operations.
• Integration of operations: Across different locations.

 
STORAGE CONSOLIDATION

Derive Technologies provides solutions that consolidate your storage environment, resulting in lower operating costs, higher performance and unsurpassed availability of critical systems and information.

Our storage and server consolidation consultants review your existing infrastructure and recommend ways to reduce resource and financial burdens that exist in your current storage environment. We then develop policies and implement technologies which follow industry-standard, while “real world”, best practices for consolidation that are specifically tailored to your technology infrastructure and budget.

Key Benefits:

• Increased resource utilization.
• Decreased management costs.
• Greater application uptime.
• Purchase of additional storage: Only when you need it.

 
STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Derive Technologies delivers proactive monitoring and diagnostic services for your storage environment through the use of Storage Management Software. Our SMS services help you to increase up-time and avoid or minimize the impact of business disruptions. Whether your enterprise is small, medium or large, our solutions consolidate crucial storage-related information to help you closely manage storage performance, capacity and costs as an integral part of your business processes.

Key Benefits:

• Comprehensive management of storage environments: Aligned to your business needs and infrastructure.
• Ensured compliance with data and infrastructure-related regulations: Through proactive monitoring and reporting.
• Protection: Against unauthorized storage access.