Challenge

Solution

Benefit

The cost of delivering IT services to your organisation needs to be reduced without impact service levels.

MDS’s Utility Storage platform delivers a highly available storage platform, hosted and managed by MDS, charged for on a per GB/month basis.

Capital costs associated with buying, managing, hosting and maintaining storage are eliminated. The overall cost of ownership is significantly reduced and service levels are often improved.

The reasons to centralise the storage estate have been indentified but resource/skill constraints, risk and budgets are delaying or preventing the project.

MDS’s Utility Storage platform is a ready made solution that can be deployed rapidly with no risk or impact on your IT resources.  You only pay when the platform goes live.

The typical risks and constraints around migrating to a central storage platform are eliminated allowing you to achieve the benefits faster.

Your organisation requires higher levels of service for critical applications that cannot be achieved in house.

The Utility storage platform has been built using class leading technology from NetApp and EMC to provide the highest service levels from a Tier3 datacentre facility.

By moving critical data to the MDS Utility Storage platform, you can easily achieve 99.99% uptime or higher without the typical price associated.

Constant change within your organisation makes budgeting and planning difficult.

MDS offers complete flexibility on the Utility Storage platform without the typical penalties associated.  The service can scale up or down according to requirements.

Your business can plan for change without the normal concerns over wasted investments, secure in the knowledge that the service is always available.

Higher levels of security and control that can be provided in house are required for mission critical data.

MDS’s Utility Storage Platform is hosted in a highly secure datacentre and built to ISO27001 standards.  Regular testing of procedures and security are carried out as standard.

You can mitigate risk and achieve higher levels of security without the cost or pain associated with self certification.