Enterprise Storage Solutions and Services

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Information Management Made Simple

Enterprise

Storage Solutions

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making IT happen

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NCS Group is a leading information technology (IT) and communications engineering services provider with about 4,000 staff located in 10 countries across the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions.

NCS has in-depth domain knowledge and unique delivery capabilities which focus on defining, realising and sustaining Business Value for its Customers via the innovative use of technology.

With proven expertise in consulting, development, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure management and solutions, gained while serving government and commercial organisations across the region, NCS delivers end-to-end support for every organisation’s technology needs.

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Contact NCS at [email protected] today! Discover how you can effectively engage NCS, and leverage on our proven solutions, expertise, experience, methodologies and partnerships for business advantage and real value.

NCS GROUP

5 Ang Mo Kio Street 62, NCS Hub, Singapore 569141 Tel: (65) 6556 8000 Fax: (65) 6556 7000 Email: [email protected] Website: www.ncs.com.sg

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The

Dynamic Life of Storage

The internet, email and business continuity in the face of disaster put

pressure on companies to develop and manage storage solutions and

applications. Factor in the need for security and corporate governance,

and companies are now under even more pressure to manage and cope

within their business and IT infrastructure.

Regulations such as the Health Insurance and Portability Act (HIPAA) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) have generated a need to re-design storage systems that allow IT professionals to manage their data based on the value and criticality of content. Thus, it is no wonder then that companies are turning quickly to the storage strategy known as Information Life Cycle Management or ILM to help manage information from its creation till its demise.

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Why NCS

NCS has been delivering storage and information management services and solutions since 1997, which are part of the overall ILM framework. Our expertise lies in our ability to provide an array of storage solutions for both open systems and mainframe platforms. The team of storage architects and consultants strive to help you optimise your storage resources and data management, thus ensuring availability of business information.

The ILM strategy helps a company put into place an effective method of classifying data, its accessibility, archiving, migration, back up and recovery as well as its integration into corporate security and business continuity frameworks. Organisations may have some of these in place but they invariably do not have the entire framework and with the emphasis on corporate governance by regulatory bodies, organisations will have to start developing their framework quickly.

By knowing and understanding each stage of ILM, NCS solutions integrate seamlessly, reduce complexities and increase business efficiencies that lower the total cost of ownership.

An Iterative Process

AssessmentIdentify your storage investments and risks.

Design Solution according to your storage requirements.

Deployment Select and implement proposed storage solution.

Service Functions

Rollout secondary storage, backup and recovery requirements.

Management Develop and manage storage processes and procedures.

Validation

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Building a Robust Infrastructure

Whether it is consulting, integration, operations support, after-sales care or more, we work with you through each phase of ILM, providing for you a total storage solution to support your business.

Consulting

NCS has the experience and a proven track record in delivering quality storage solutions that are both complex and diverse. Our consulting teams will study customer’s environment, understand the problems, assess the requirements, capacity planning, and design and build the storage infrastructure.

Our proposed storage solutions take into account needs such as:

• Scalability • High availability • Security • System management • Performance Storage Consolidation

NCS has implemented a multitude of storage consolidation projects in both a heterogeneous and homogeneous environment. We provide a suite of storage technologies that effectively meet the needs of our customers.

• Direct-attached storage (DAS) • IP networked storage (iSCSI) • Network-attached storage (NAS)

Data Protection and Recovery

To guard against the loss of data, we assess the various backup and restore methods that best suit your business. We will help you to automate the painful backup and restore exercise that requires tremendous discipline. These technologies we adopt aim to provide information availability to your business.

• Centralised tape backup • Disk-to-disk backup • Archiving and vaulting

• Integration

• Internal architecture • Technology transfer • Support structure • Training and education

• Storage area network (SAN) • Storage virtualisation • Hybrid Storage Systems

• LAN-free and server-free backup • Data cloning and replication • Business recovery and continuity

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Storage strategies should be evaluated by both Small Medium Enterprises (SME) as well as large corporations. Data has been growing exponentially over the last few years and the size of an organisation has no relevance to managing data. At the end of the day, companies need to develop an effective ILM strategy so that they will be able to address both regulatory as well as corporate needs.

NCS understands your growing demand for more storage to meet your business needs. Working closely with and leveraging on the the strength of our established technology partners, we offer a full suite of storage services that revole around the storage management life cycle.