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Cold Creek Solutions' executive team has 64 years of IT experience and thousands of companies have benefited from this experience. Two companies in particular have benefited from Cold Creek Solutions Chief Technology Officer's professional services.
Our Advantages First company, a logistics company in Salt Lake City, UtahThe issue: 60 TB of storage capacity was at risk of data loss. This company was constantly running out of space, causing them to purchase storage quickly, and without a price comparison. Further, money was lost when the company was forced to pay the IT staff overtime and weekend pay to install the additional storage. All in all, the company was spending 3-10 times more for Class 1 Storage than was necessary. The tools required to forecast the growth of their storage environment were inadequate in terms of planning and budgeting. Deliverables: - Current state assessment
- Capacity planning model
- Tiered storage model
Benefits received: The IT department had a credibility issue with the executive management of the company because the capacity of their storage that was supposed to last a year only lasted 6 months. They did not have a handle on their requirements. Our CTO gave them the tools to understand what they had, solved the credibility issue, and the next purchase went from an anticipated price of $600,000 down to $70,000, a savings of $1/2 million. Second company, a major health insurance provider in Florida The Issue: the storage on their 40TB of Tier 2 Modular Storage failed and was unrecoverable. The company had only implemented incremental backups going back two years thereby taking them 40-45 days to recover lost data from their tape storage. The costs incurred as a result from this loss were immeasurable. Not only did the Executive Vice President lose a presentation intended for the Board of Directors, the company was also forced to pay the IT staff additional time during the recovery.
Deliverables:
- Evaluation of TSM environment
- Assessment on service levels
- Capacity planning tool
- Storage organization roles & responsibilities assessment
- Redesign and reconfiguration of TSM to support disaster and recovery
Benefits received: Cold Creek Solutions’ CTO was able to correct their TSM environment, consolidate their storage management tools, and give them a replication strategy. In addition the CTO provided the company a tiered storage model and a staged approach to their storage. Overall, the benefits presented to the company allowed for managed growth, risk mitigation, and cost optimization. |