ROI Calculator – Consolidation Assessment – Try & Buy

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ROI Calculator

Using the Calculator:  The NetApp ROI Calculator is a Microsoft Excel-based proprietary tool designed to show companies the cost advantages of NetApp solutions.  In its current form, the calculator offers the following ROI (return-on-investments) solution comparisons:

• Data Protection
• Backup & Recovery
• Disaster Recovery
• Storage Consolidation
• File Server
• SAN/IP SAN Storage

The calculator is designed to be simple and straightforward to use.  To begin, simply open the calculator workbook and choose which of the ROI comparisons (Backup & Recovery, Disaster Recovery, File Server Consolidation or SAN/IP SAN Storage Consolidation), to perform. Step-by-step, the calculator guides the user through the necessary input worksheets until an ROI result is reached. You may wish to refer to The NetApp ROI Calculator User Guide.

Consolidation Assessment

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Addressing your consolidation requirements
Root Cellar provides the full spectrum of consolidation expertise—from study results that help you understand potential efficiencies to end-to-end complex deployments that move you to the latest technology without disrupting your business operations. That includes maintaining your applications and data throughout the consolidation process and ensuring that they are migrated appropriately.

Server consolidation services from Root Cellar draw on a center of competency staffed with highly skilled professionals whose sole focus is developing and executing consolidation best practices. The services use a consolidation methodology crafted through Root Cellar's extensive experience in building efficient data centers.

All services, including design, strategy, planning, implementation, testing and application and data migration are built on Root Cellar's extensive server and application product offerings and proven track record for designing, deploying and managing data center environments. And each solution is built to fit the unique requirements of your business.

Laying the foundation
Beyond the ability to help you reduce the number of servers in your environment and improve the performance and utilization of those that remain, server consolidation services from Root Cellar can provide a foundation for implementing more advanced optimization initiatives. These can include initiatives such as virtualization and dynamic system provisioning, cloud computing and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Server consolidation services can also help provide the groundwork for building energy-efficient systems and data centers. Our comprehensive approach to server consolidation helps clients like you design, build and manage environmentally responsible data centers by:

• Eliminating unused applications and servers.
• Implementing energy management of IT resources.
• Upgrading to new, more efficient technology.

Focusing on workloads and data
Our proven methodologies are designed to be cost effective and help mitigate risk as you migrate to new server, network and storage systems. Using these methodologies, Root Cellar can help you plan your migration to eliminate business and IT disruptions.
Using best-of-breed analytical tools, Root Cellar develops a high-level technical and financial road map that identifies optimization opportunities in your server environment and the best targets for migration. While no two migrations are identical, the process Root Cellar uses to drive success is always the same whether for an infrastructure migration, data migration, ISV package, custom application or a combination of all four.

Getting started
Whether you need help with a business case or start-to-finish consolidation of your IT environment, we can help you define the scope of your project and develop a road map for your server consolidation. And if you need more help, we can evaluate your workloads and infrastructure and provide a comprehensive business case, outlining total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment, with alternatives and a strategy that will meet the needs and challenges of your business for the next three to five years. For more advanced optimization initiatives, we can show you how to optimize your IT infrastructure using new technologies that enhance operational and cost performance by concentrating on:

• Power and cooling.
• Space utilization.
• Application performance requirements.
• Automation and virtualization.

Perhaps you have a particular focus relative to application. Whatever your needs, we can help you consolidate your workloads and upgrade databases and applications with technical expertise and services that span heterogeneous environments. Get on the consolidation path with Root Cellar to create a more dynamic and robust infrastructure ready to meet the fast-changing needs of your business.

Try & Buy NetApp Storage Systems

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Following a Storage Assessment we can establish criteria for you to obtain a try & buy of a NetApp storage system. 

Root Cellar Assessment Services give you the insights you need to lower costs, avoid risks, improve efficiencies, and realize new opportunities.

Increasing your return on investment calls for a solid understanding of the many assets across your infrastructure. IT experts help you thoroughly identify and document business, storage, and infrastructure requirements and then deliver recommendations to make improvements.

Virtualization
We employ proven methodologies, tools, and best practices to make a smooth transition to the optimal virtual infrastructure.

Get the Most out of Your Data Center—without Adding Complexity

Server virtualization can help you get more out of your data center—better utilization, resiliency, ROI, and the flexibility to respond quickly to changing business needs. However, server virtualization raises the level of complexity in managing your data.

Challenges:

• Pre-consolidation planning
• Heterogeneous management and the management of holistic IT services
• Simplifying IT management processes
• Maintaining end-user performance
• Maintaining desired server and storage availability
• Controlling VM sprawl
• Need for better planning and ongoing capacity modeling

Virtualization Is A Journey. Who Will Serve As Your Guide?

Root Cellar Services for Virtualization lets you realize the NetApp advantage for virtualized environments. Exemplary professional services and global support help you make a smooth transition to your optimal virtual infrastructure.

Strategic Planning Is Critical To The Success Of Your Virtualization Journey

Root Cellar Professional Services leverages proven methodologies, tools, and best practices to assess, consult, deploy, and manage the right virtualization solution for your data center—all while addressing your business needs.
Our proactive support services employ innovative technology to quickly alert, diagnose, respond to, and resolve problems—often before you even know they’ve happened. This can help you lower TCO with a virtualization solution optimized to your needs, and to achieve reliable performance and faster time to production.  With Root Cellar as your virtualization guide, you get the combined power of key technologies—in just the right mix for your needs. That’s the Root Cellar advantage, and you can experience it in many ways

Key benefits:

• Faster ROI
You get a return on investment within months of deployment from productivity gains and cost savings.

• Get More from Your Investment
We can help you take best advantage of the innovation built into virtualization products, helping you integrate seamlessly and configure quickly.

• Lower Your Risk
Specific, proven knowledge and best practices provide you with the lowest risk during implementation.

• Speed Time to Production
Shorten your deployment timeframe from months to days.

• Save Money with Service Flexibility
You buy only what you need to achieve your business goals.

• Improve Your Availability
Periodic audits and assessments identify potential problems before they impact availability.

Fast-Start Workshop
We can help you jump start savings by delivering an end-to-end evaluation of your data center environment from an organizational, technological, capacity, and operational viewpoint.

Data Protection and Retention
Root Cellar helps you shape your data protection strategies to support your business goals and achieve optimal ROI.

Challenges:

• Expanding data storage environments are becoming increasingly complex and costly to manage
• More data and shorter windows can mean missed or incomplete backups
• Tape technology, media failures, and complex backup systems can slow data recovery and retrieval times
• Designing and implementing the optimal solution—while managing day-to-day operations—can be a daunting challenge for the best IT organizations

Key Benefits:

The Right Backup and Recovery Strategy for Your Business
A knowledgeable and experienced NetApp Professional Services team will recommend the right combination of approaches and technologies to address your business needs.
Optimized Implementation
Extensive knowledge of NetApp® and multi-vendor products and storage best practices combine to provide an optimum solution for backup and recovery.
Cost-Effective Solutions
NetApp’s industry-leading data management and proven deployment expertise save both time and money, enabling a faster and maximum return on your investment.
Lower Risk
Proven methodologies and industry best practices help reduce your risk during implementation.

Storage Infrastructure
Root Cellar experts will rapidly deploy all infrastructure technologies while maintaining the highest levels of quality.

Storage Infrastructure Assessment
The Storage Infrastructure Assessment (SIA) service provides customers with the ability to utilize Brocade professionals to perform an in-depth, vendor-neutral analysis of your SAN/NAS environments. The findings of a storage assessment often result in extracting increased value from your storage infrastructure and eliminating unnecessary spending on additional capacity or new technology. Architecting your storage infrastructure should start with a clear understanding of what data is being stored and what the business value of that data is. A solution can then be tailored that takes into consideration IT priorities and cost-efficient solutions.