SANpulse delivers end-to-end, automated SAN migration, consolidation, and optimization solutions.

Data migration and consolidation projects are a painful experience for any IT team. Even with proper planning [10 Step RFP Process], they are difficult, time consuming, and expensive. Not only do they require an army of consultants, but they are also a highly manual process that involves intense planning, teamwork, and communication. Several people armed with spreadsheets manually collect and analyze data—a situation that leads to errors and increased timelines.

Despite the unpleasantness of data management, consolidation and migration are necessities for all growing companies with enterprise-level data storage. As data grow, IT managers must figure out how to best address their storage needs.

SANpulse eases the pain of storage consolidation and migration. Driven by advanced automation technologies, SANpulse software dramatically reduces project timeline, errors, and financial costs—all while significantly cutting back on the personnel needed to implement the project. Its patent-pending architecture provides a dynamic solution that replaces labor-intensive, error-prone manual delivery methods with automated, proactive, and efficient solutions. Both industry experts and customers acknowledge that the SANpulse advantage is its unique ability to:

• provide comprehensive, end-to-end integration—from discovery and analysis to data correlation and from data correlation to implementation and execution.
• stand as the first open and customizable technology that transparently designs both project plans and actionable command output.
• work seamlessly in heterogeneous and homogeneous SAN environments.
• deliver full integration with existing storage products (client developed, OEM, or third party).
• work flawlessly with many OEM and third party data movers.

Because every storage optimization initiative is unique, SANpulse provides custom SAN optimization solutions that are tailored to each project.

SANpulse Solutions

Discovery
Collects information on the data environment: system capacity, ownership, and utilization; current RAID types; and inventory of existing servers, arrays, and host-to-storage fabrics.

Analytics and Reporting
Evaluates discovery results to determine a clear and concise project plan for pending data migration or consolidation.

Server Remediation Analysis
Analyzes pre- and post-migration environments and delivers a compatibility report that identifies all required upgrades.

Fabric Redesign
Furnishes reports and plans for adding or removing servers in a SAN fabric.

Storage Migration and Consolidation
Develops, plans, and automates the various facets of SAN migration and consolidation initiatives while expediting the process, reducing manpower, and cutting costs.

Reclamation
Identifies unused storage space and provides a plan for reclaiming it.

Re-tiering
Generates a plan for allocating applications and content to appropriate tiers in a storage hierarchy.

Storage Virtualization
Develops a plan for migrating physical devices to a virtual environment.