Storage & ILM

No marketing gimmicks. Just smarter choices made simple.

Do you suffer from massive data growth and server sprawl? It’s a growing problem, no pun intended. Storage has transformed dramatically, from spinning disk and tape ,to Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) being lead by a ground swell in VMware virtualization. Nexus offers your organization a comprehensive set of services and solutions to help leverage this new combination of VMware and ILM-based storage for consolidation, managed growth, DR, and future applications.

Storage Solutions

• Virtualization & VMware:
  Virtualization transforms the physical in dynamically managed elements of capacity (In band & out of band/SPAID)
• DR and Data Protection:
  Multi-site DR, WAFS/WAAS, Continuous Data Protection (CDP), Snap/Clone, Encrypting “data at rest”, Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backups and Restore (ask about VTL’s & “going tapeless”)
• Tiered Network Storage:
  Arrays (SAN/NAS/CAS) of virtualized capacity with high-performance FC disk and SATA disk for economy, all connected with your choice of fiber channel or IP Ethernet networks
• eDiscovery & Classification:
  Discover datasets, report out and take action with automated workflow and classification
• Email/File Archiving:
  Policy-based software to automatically move data through archiving and optionally store on archival storage systems
• Software Management:
  Open SAN management, data de-duplication and manage more entities through Storage Resource Management
• Compliance/Legal:
  WORM compliance for retention and search/workflow for supervision and legal discovery

Nexus ILM Services

• Assess - VMware, ILM, Data Protection, DR, File, and Email
• Architect - DR/POC tests, Solutions Design
• Deploy - Implementations, Migrations, Upgrades
• Support - Maintenance renewals, Storage Administrator, Distributed Services with onsite SLA Management, Managed Services for backup

Why Nexus?
Nexus takes pride in being a trusted advisor for clients. We design solutions based on requirements and objectives, not product marketing. Nexus has a rare blend of skills across a wide array of vendors. We’re the only local Twin Cities VAR with certifications and skills in VMware, EMC’s ASN, NetApp, CommVault, Data Domain, ADIC/Quantum, Veritas/Symantec, and HP StorageWorks.

Storage Partners in Delivery
EMC, VMware, Data Domain, NetApp, CommVault, Symantec/Veritas, HP, Qlogic, Cisco, Brocade/McData, CA/XOsoft, Emulex, Vizioncore, Platespin