Understand the current setup

o Storage :
Existing Infrastructure

Do you have a SAN storage or a NAS storage in place

today?

How much capacity do you have?

How many file servers do you have today?

Is the file servers centralized or distributed across

locations? If distributed, across how many locations?

Is there collaboration happening on file servers across

users from multiple locations?

How much data do you currently have on file servers ?

(in TB)
Investment cycle:

How old is your current storage?

Do you have an upcoming disk expansion being

planned? Timeline and what capacity?

When do you plan to renew the AMC of the existing

storage?

When do you plan to refresh your current storage?

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Backup:
Existing Setup & investment cycle:

Which backup software do you use today?

Do you use tapes to backup data?

Which tape library do you use? How many tape drives

and how many tapes are consumed in a year?

Do you send tapes to offsite locations?

When is renewal on the support for backup or tape

library?
Pain Areas & further exploration:
Storage:

Do you have frequent disk upgrades bothering you for

file servers?

Are you considering an archival solution to move

inactive or old files to a low cost storage to reduce
storage costs?

Is your backup window growing and causing a concern?

Do you have DR strategy in place?(meaning if a file

server fails, how long does it take for users to come online
in terms of hours?

Do you have challenges maintaining tapes offsite?

Do you use a public cloud service today?

o If yes, what services do you use?