SBS has created a Storage Services Practice specifically focused on the delivery of high quality Storage related services. Working with best-in-class storage products, SBS can provide a wide range of consulting services enabling you to quickly and effectively deploy storage hardware and management solutions throughout your enterprise. Whether your needs are as simple as adding storage capacity to your current environment or as complex as a remote disaster recovery solution for petabytes of data, our consultants can help. The following is a brief overview of our service offerings:

Storage Assessment
SBS can provide a comprehensive evaluation of your storage environment allowing your organization to reduce exposure to business-continuity failures, make better decisions, and take advantage of technical advancements. SBS consultants will identify issues within existing systems and provide solution recommendations to improve your environment based upon your business needs.

Storage Design & Implementation
SBS can assist you in designing and building a storage infrastructure that will meet current and future business requirements. SBS offers expertise in a wide variety of storage technologies and will assist you in implementation of the correct solution that will allow your organization to meet your business objectives.

Enterprise Storage Consolidation & Data Migration
Consolidation and Migration of your critical systems can be a daunting task. SBS can assist your organization in planning and implementing consolidation and migration projects that will allow your organization to capitalize on proven technologies while ensuring current operation stability. SBS can assist your organization in overcoming the challenges of consolidating storage infrastructures and migrating your critical data to new storage environments with little or no down time.

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuance
Availability, protection, and security of your data is critical. SBS can help your organization to ensure that your infrastructure will support continued operations based upon your particular business needs. SBS offers services that will help your organization to integrate “best of breed” solutions that will ensure the continued availability of your data. SBS has expertise in these areas:

• High Speed Backup & Recovery
• Highly Available Server Clustering
• Site Replication

Enterprise Data Management
SBS consultants can act as an extension of your IT infrastructure. SBS can provide dedicated storage experts who can assist you with day to day operational management of your critical data infrastructure. SBS consultants can maintain an on-site presence within your organization to continuously operate, maintain, and improve your data infrastructure.

Virtualization
SBS has extensive experience in the assessment, plan, design, implementation and management of virtualization technologies in Enterprise environments. Our large virtualization practice will help you focus on the impacts of virtualization throughout your entire infrastructure. Coupled with our focuses on SAN, BUR and OS(s) SBS can assimilate the right team for your needs and provide the planning and expertise essential for a successful virtual environment implementation.

Knowledge Transfer & Training
SBS believes that the long-term satisfaction of a storage solution is directly related to the level of training its customers receive on the solution. Enterprise storage-management solutions are often quite sophisticated, and require specialized skills to administer and maintain. All SBS services can include a comprehensive Knowledge Transfer to your internal staff. We can also work with you to provide on-site or classroom training in specific technologies.