Storage

Scalability, reliability, security

There is one truth in the data centre: the amount of information to be stored continues to grow year after year.

As organizations store ever-increasing amounts of information, managing that information – including replication, backup and archiving – becomes an increasing drain on resources.

Storage solutions from Bell help you optimize your information assets to manage this growth more effectively.

Let us show you how to:

• Provision the right amount of storage at the right time
• More effectively backup your data, plus reduce backup volume through deduplication
• Better comply with legislation and regulation with advanced archiving solutions

Contact us for your custom storage solution

What is storage virtualization?

Storage virtualization helps you address storage allocation and information management issues, and is a key requirement for achieving business continuity and disaster recovery.

An end-to-end solution

Storage is core to corporate technology strategy – that's why Bell is with you every step of the way for delivering storage, backup, and archiving solutions.

Our range of services and expertise spans:

• Strategy and planning to achieve your target storage environment
• Technical assessments to determine the right solutions for your existing infrastructure
• Integration and testing
• Ongoing technical support and optimization

Benefits

• Increase storage capabilities with thin provisioning
• Improve resiliency with non-disruptive migrations, maintenance, and upgrades
• Find immediate opportunities for improvement with short-term payback
• Increase flexibility of your IT infrastructure
• Simplify storage tasks with a single point of management for the entire storage infrastructure

Your storage needs supported by Bell investments in new data centres across Canada

Bell has launched a national initiative to increase the size of its data centre footprint in order to meet the growing needs of our enterprise and mid-market customers for co-location, hosting and managed services in Canada. By June 2011, Bell will have five state-of-the-art data centres in the regions of Montréal, Calgary and Toronto.

Learn more about this data centre build by reading the full news story.

Why Bell?

Bell is your single point of contact to a variety of vendors – we can help you sort through the various tools and approaches to create a custom solution for your enterprise.

For storage solutions, we partner with leading companies including EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Symantec.

With Bell, you're backed by certified professionals who have extensive expertise in storage, servers, networks, and more.

As Canada's leading network provider, Bell is in a unique position to transform the data centre into a delivery centre with unified networking, security and virtual solutions.

Contact us today and build a better infrastructure with Bell.

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