Interscape Announces Service to Provide Storage Array Optimization

Interscape Technologies, Inc. announces Storage Optimization Service as part of its ‘expert inclusive’ Perfonics-based PAAS offerings.

The service includes Performance Profiling that leads to right sizing and right tiering recommendations, best fit raid level analysis, thin pool utilizations and over-subscriptions, storage reclamation, etc.

The Storage Array Optimization Service though primarily targeted towards enterprises and storage service providers can also be applied to smaller installations.

The 3T/Perfonics based Storage Array Optimization Service will provide storage analytics and recommendations to enterprises on Right-Sizing/Right-Tiering including over-allocations and under-utilizations, identify best fit RAID levels, match RAID-levels/disk technologies /disk RPMs to performance profiles, thin-pool over-subscription management based on percentage allocated vs. percentage consumed and a detailed algorithm that helps enterprises reclaim unused storage thus avoiding capital investments.

“We are very excited to announce the Storage Array Optimization Service. This SME inclusive service ensures that enterprise storage infrastructure performs at its best and is being utilized in the most effective manner,” said Alok Jain, founder and CEO, Interscape. “This new service saves expensive new storage array purchases by effectively utilizing all the storage & using various automated techniques to find all the unused enterprise storage” thus helping in cost deferment.”

The new Storage Array Optimization service is part of Perfonics-based broader service offerings called Performance As A Service (PAAS).

PAAS is a cloud-based offering focused on providing performance analysis, capacity planning, performance troubleshooting, consolidation modeling, migration planning, capacity planning, trending and forecasting for multi-vendor SAN and NAS storage infrastructures. Perfonics can analyze small to large multi-vendor, multi-petabyte storage infrastructures quickly by ingesting the raw storage related data in automated fashion.

PAAS approach is implemented using the Interscape methodology based on a tool called Perfonics. This methodology provides a hands-off model; there is no software, agents or appliance needed to be installed and no additional specialized skill-sets are needed by customer. Customers provides the OEM tools data already collected in their environment or run well-known native storage and server commands/scripts. Once the collected data is uploaded on to secured Interscape cloud, analytic reports are generated and provided via reporting dash board. Customers can take advantage of these ‘expert inclusive’ services to get a deeper understanding of the issues that will help them decide on the corrective actions.