Professional Services

At IntelliMagic, our primary focus is on creating the world's best SPM software solutions that enable users to easily implement their own mature processes for managing storage performance.  

 

IntelliMagic will however, also perform professional services in the area of storage performance.  Example service engagements include: 

 

Storage System Performance Analysis:  IntelliMagic professional services will review the health and performance of as many storage systems as desired.  The analysis can include zOS or open systems I/O analysis.  We recommend focusing on critical hosts and storage systems.  At the conclusion of the analysis a detailed report containing our findings and recommendations will be provided.  Data collection instructions are provided and must be for supported platforms.

 

Disaster Recovery Copy Services/Replication Bandwidth Sizing Study:  IntelliMagic Professional Services will collect and analyze your performance data to determine the write MB for the volumes you want to replicate and provide detailed bandwidth sizing options taking into account write folder, compression, RPO, RTO, etc.

 

Storage Workload and Hardware Sizing Study: IntelliMagic professional services will work with you to determine the best configuration required for new storage hardware purchases based on either existing or new workloads.  This type of service is focused on supporting major hardware purchases.  At the conclusion of the analysis a detailed report containing our findings and recommendations will be provided.  For a list of supported storage platforms please click here.

 

Consolidation and Migration Impact Study:  In this study IntelliMagic professional services will provide an analysis of your existing storage environment and workloads and make recommendations on consolidating many storage systems into fewer storage systems.  Logical volume migration is also an option. 

 

Storage Efficiency Analysis:  IntelliMagic professional services can analyze how efficiently your storage systems are utilized in relationship to their capabilities and will provide detailed recommendations to optimize the efficiency.  This type of analysis often leads to the ability to delay storage hardware purchases.  Currently this service is limited to z/OS environments.