Storage Fusion Turns to Vendors, Channel Partners and MSPs

Storage Fusion Ltd. announced a number of measures geared towards growth.

Now owned by Avisen plc, an AIM listed company, the storage analytics specialist has developed a new strategy that will see the dedicated marketing and sales team engage with vendors, resellers and MSPs to take the company’s Storage Resource Analysis platform to market.

Businesses such as GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. and Unisys, rely on Storage Fusion’s solution as an assessment tool to help their customers shed light on their storage environments.

Founded in 2008, to date Storage Fusion has helped its customers analyse over 2,500 arrays to allow IT professionals to make informed decisions about their storage resources thanks to granular storage analytics. The company’s technology is used for several purposes including SAN audits, capacity planning, internal charge-back, storage reclaim, virtualisation and cloud migration.

Another aspect of Storage Fusion is its new Storage Benchmarks report, an aggregated analysis of the data gathered from its direct customers from 2008 to 2010 using SRA.This initial report makes a small sample of Storage Fusion’s findings available and includes information about array types, utilization, disk types, RAID types and virtualization.

"Following the company’s acquisition by Avisen there has been a great injection of tremendous resources and I am very excited about what the future has to offer for Storage Fusion," said Peter White, Operations Director, at Storage Fusion. "The new focus on vendor and channel partners as well as MSPs will give us the resources we need to take full advantage of the current need for visibility in storage environments that end-users have been telling us about."

Today storage can represent 30% of the IT budget and Storage Fusion allows organisations to realise immediate savings.

Enterprises rely on SRA to lift the lid
on their storage estates
and a range of benefits have been achieved, such as:

Identification of $9M/600TB of reclaimable storage
Immediate removal of the cost of three developers/week for six months
Immediate replacement of 17 man days of on-site consultancy with less than two hours of SRA reporting
A full-time service delivery consultant providing allocation charge back reports could only report on 25% of customers; SRA met the brief with two days/week for all customers
Prevented potential contravention of regulatory mandate with significant associated fine

Endorsed by some of the leading vendors,
technology providers and enterprises SRA
is being used for many different types
of projects including: