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Clear Technologies Announces Revolutionary New Service for Transforming Storage Optimization

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Dallas, Texas – [September 21st, 2021] – Clear Technologies, a leading solution provider of IT consulting, server, storage, and software products, today announced the unveiling of a new service offering, Capacity Planning-as-a-Service, taking their storage expertise to the next level. In partnership with Visual One Intelligence™, the Capacity Planning-as-a-Service (CPaaS) solution is a significant advancement in the future of storage optimization.

Digital transformation heightens the need for continuous storage capacity analysis for determining critical IT infrastructure, application and financial resource needs. The CPaaS solution provides on-demand, comprehensive, actionable insight into the utilization and performance of any storage environment. CPaaS also eliminates the costly risk of over-provisioning cloud storage. With CPaaS, IT executives can ensure staff resources remain focused on normal workloads and suspend manual capacity planning. Paired with the human intelligence of Clear Technologies’ storage experts, IT executives will be well equipped to confidently make decisions for provisioning on-prem and cloud storage capabilities, at scale.

“We’re committed to building a strong, service-oriented relationship with our customers. In some of our discussions, we noticed customers conducting manual capacity planning outside of normal business operations and utilizing outdated tools. With turnover, the skillset and intricate excel spreadsheets were left to team members without the knowledge or time to complete manual reporting. We identified a strong need for accurate, on-demand capacity planning to help these customers save money and maintain normal workloads,” said Phil Godwin, Clear Technologies President and COO. “We’re excited to unveil the new Capacity Planning-as-a-Service offering to ensure customers are optimizing their storage environment and making confident, data-driven decisions for the future.”

Key Capacity Planning-as-a-Service Benefits:

  • Proactive Analysis – Actualize storage capacity needs on-demand with one centralized tool. Make confident, data-driven decisions in a timely manner.
  • Human Intelligence – Optimize storage capacity based on expert analysis and recommendations. With CPaaS, storage experts will factor in plans for acquisition, data migration or storage refresh.
  • Operational Equity – Build a risk-free IT Operations forecast by eliminating the financial pain of extended time and additional resources caused by manual capacity reporting.

“Developing the Capacity Planning-as-a-Service solution enhances the capabilities of the Visual One Intelligence™ tool,” said Van Symons, Visual One Intelligence™ Chief Technology Officer. “We created Visual One Intelligence™ as a client-driven tool to continuously meet the needs of our clients’ storage environment. Capacity Planning is the future of storage optimization, and we are helping clients take a modern, proactive approach.”

About Clear Technologies

Clear Technologies partners with enterprise organizations to deliver customized IT solutions designed to increase operational efficiency. Unlike other solution providers, Clear Technologies utilizes Visual One Intelligence™ (SRMaaS) to help enterprises discover performance insights, simplify storage management processes, and increase ROI. With over 25 years of experience and a premier offering of cloud-based infrastructure and services, combined with Visual One Intelligence™, Clear Technologies is the preferred partner in digital transformation.

CLEAR TECHNOLOGIES | HOW Visual One OPTIMIZES STORAGE

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With the seemingly exponential growth of data storage, it’s no surprise that storage can take up quite a bit of the company’s bottom line. Forbes polled executives in 2020 and found that 30% of cloud spending is wasted. It’s a good bet that a large amount of this loss is from the storage area network (SAN).

Beyond the price of storage arrays, there are also expenses relating to expansion, maintenance, redundancies, and unused data. The fact that data comes in from different sources and formats, and is unorganized, only adds to the overall cost.

THE ROLE OF Visual One

Visual One Intelligence™ provides a single pane of glass reporting for all storage arrays within the company SAN, regardless of vendor or manufacturer. Data throughout the network is normalized and sent back to administrators via visual reports, providing a clear, organized picture of the SAN. From this point, the act of optimizing the SAN can begin in earnest.

LET’S START WITH ASSESSMENT

The first step to optimizing the SAN is to see what comprises the entire storage ecosystem. Detailed reports are run on all existing storage areas to determine how much storage is at each location, the ratio of unused and used storage and if the storage high performance or high capacity.

Then, it’s time to move on to capacity planning and forecasting. A flash analyzer will be used to identify specific workloads that would benefit from being hosted on a flash storage array. A health check will determine if all existing storage arrays are configured correctly and communicating with each other. Additionally, Visual One machine learning will troubleshoot your SAN to quickly identify the root causes of problems.

LUNs (logical unit numbers) will be assigned throughout the network to establish all available data storage and recovery routes. Alternative pathways are then implemented to prevent any partial failures. The entire SAN will be thoroughly analyzed, and then all steps will be repeated for each individual storage array.
Administrators will analyze the data from detailed reports to determine what room your SAN has for future expansion.

NOW IT’S TIME TO OPTIMIZE

By performing file-level analysis with Visual One throughout the SAN, the most used and unused data can be assigned different storage arrays. The data that is most often used will be put on the highest performing storage arrays. Meanwhile, mostly unused storage can be placed in separate arrays or also allocated to solid-state drives or hard disks – less expensive storage array options.

With a combination of Visual One machine learning tools and manual mechanisms, it’s time to move on to provisioning. Integrated analytics across core storage arrays and cloud environments will provide the clarity needed to provision correctly across the whole SAN as well as all connected devices to the network.
Data compression will identify and eliminate statistical redundancy, helping to clear out more available storage space across arrays. Orphaned space can be reclaimed and repurposed for current needs and future requirements.

For the last step, it’s time to gather storage consultants to determine the best cloud migration strategy. Cloud storage is highly recommended as it helps boost speed, performance, and scalability along with providing maintenance duties, enterprise-level security, and disaster recovery.

IT’S TIME TO OPTIMIZE YOUR STORAGE!

Start the conversation with a Clear Technologies SAN expert. Access your virtual storage intelligence assessment here!

CLEAR TECHNOLOGIES | SOLVE YOUR STORAGE CHALLENGES

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By 2025, the World Economic Forum predicts that 463 exabytes of data will be created globally every day. No matter what size, every business is storing and crunching data to keep ahead of the competition. According to IDC, the compound annual growth rate of data storage should reach almost 17.8 percent, with the volume of global data stored expected to double every four years.

With all that data considered, Clear Technologies has the plan to help companies solve their current and future storage challenges, beginning with:

DELIVER GREAT PERFORMANCE WITH MODERN FLASH STORAGE

The move to flash storage has been swift, as hard disks have inherent latency issues. Whether it’s flash memory chips or flash arrays, they are lightning quick compared to their hard drive counterparts with moving components, and they feature a latency of within a microsecond.

Having no moving components also makes flash storage highly durable – no disc scratching or drive heads to worry about. This comes in particularly handy with disaster recovery, as there is a significant diminishment of the chance of catastrophic data loss due to weather-related events.

All-flash arrays are also much more energy-efficient, less complex to install, and highly scalable for business needs.

TAKE CONTROL WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

Storage virtualization provides a single pane of glass management capabilities across the entire storage area network (SAN), no matter how many different vendor arrays make up the network’s composition. This can drastically improve storage capacity and performance, speeding up migrations and creating better workflows.

It also reduces the amount of hardware needed in your storage arrays, allowing organizations to get the most out of their current infrastructure. Floor space is gained and total cost of ownership can be reduced without compromising performance and functionality.

LEVERAGE SCALE AND CAPACITY WITH NVMe

Regardless of how high the storage capacity, users expect even faster response times. The NVMe protocol supports thousands of parallel command queues for both flash and next-gen solid state drives.

Not only does NVMe utilize nonvolatile memory in a vast array of computing environments, it is also future proof – it’s the new standard to incorporate into future storage technologies.

UTILIZE IaaS CLOUD SOLUTIONS WITH Visual One

Visual One Intelligence™ technology (Visual One) allows organizations to take full advantage of Infrastructure as a Service in cloud environments. By bringing network infrastructure into the cloud, there is less need, and sometimes even no need, for hardware and datacenters on site. This not only increases floor space, it can also significantly lower infrastructure and maintenance costs.

IaaS also provides on-demand scalability without the need to upgrade software and hardware. If any hardware components fail or the business loses internet services, none of their infrastructure is affected, mitigating any worries about data loss. Additionally, IaaS provides storage replication as another tool to protect companies from data loss.

Utilizing IaaS can also significantly free up the time of IT staff, allowing them to focus more on tasks that benefit the organization’s bottom line.

READY TO GET A COMPLETE VIEW OF YOUR STORAGE PERFORMANCE?

Clear Technologies works with a wide array of vendors to put forth the best solutions for your storage needs. Put us to the test by requesting your free storage assessment. Our storage experts will use our Visual One cloud application to analyze your SAN and make the best recommendations to help match your storage capacity to the growth of your business.

Work with us to prepare for your SAN implementation. Request a Readiness Assessment with Clear Tech.