Convert your storage to a managed service and scale capacity and costs to meet business needs.
As data storage costs grow to support business expansion and market changes, organizations need the flexibility to manage, expand and shrink their storage environments. The way to achieve true agility — not just a scalable lease-for-growth model — is through storage as a service.
Most organizations with traditional data storage environments find it difficult to scale and extract long-term value from their investments. The emergence of new cloud and hybrid computing models also requires adaptive storage and backup based on as-a-service consumption models.
To add to the challenge, many industries are experiencing merger and acquisition activities and need to consolidate overlapping, aging infrastructures that are labor intensive to manage and maintain. Tighter government and industry regulations place an even greater responsibility on IT organizations to protect and preserve their stored data.
Storage to fit your business
DXC Storage as a Service is a fully managed service for block, file and object storage demands. It enables your organization to embrace the digital world by provisioning capacity when and where it’s required. DXC Technology will host your data in a way that best fits your changing business requirements, whether in your data center or ours, in a shared or dedicated environment.
Our service helps you consume next-generation storage on a gigabyte basis. You can allocate data in different performance and availability tiers depending on usage or value. You pick the capacity and service levels required — we can support 10TB infrastructures and more. And you can fine-tune your requirements through six classes of service for block data, such as databases; three classes of service for file data; and an option for ultra-high-performance all-flash storage.
Optimize your storage investment
Instead of a traditional capital expense (CAPEX) model that forces you to buy storage capacity in large segments, DXC Storage as a Service allows you to move to an operating expense (OPEX) procurement model.
Paying only for the storage you use frees up capital to support other business needs. For example, in a traditional storage procurement model, you purchase storage over a fixed depreciation period, such as 4 to 5 years. Every time you add incremental capacity, it costs you more, with a shorter depreciation period toward coterminous hardware and maintenance end of life. Our model is different. As you transition more storage to an as-a-service model, you get reduced storage rates on all your consumed capacity.
DXC’s managed storage services help you balance business needs with the cost of storage. You gain complete visibility into storage performance and costs, flexible storage capacity for your business and a reduction in overall storage costs by
30 percent. Customer successes include:
- A global technology company that saved 30 percent on its storage costs by using an as-a-service model. They can now meet future storage needs in a convenient and highly agile manner through the utility approach and our provided buffer capacity.
- A global security and defense products company that reduced IT spend on unstructured storage by 52 percent over a 5-year period.
Experience the benefits
Working with you as a trusted partner, DXC provides the expertise you need to transform your current storage environment. Benefits include:
- Cost optimization. Unlike competitors that model increases in storage costs over time, DXC helps customers optimize and even reduce storage costs. Our approach informs you about capacity and performance, and we make it easy to see where you might be paying for performance you are not using.
- Expertise. DXC manages 750 petabytes of storage for customers and has over 50 years of experience in managing compute and data environments for commercial and public sector organizations across the globe. DXC leverages this expertise and our partner network to build the right solution for any workload.
- Flexibility. You can quickly scale storage needs up and down based on business demand, using a simple service catalog and a 10 percent capacity buffer that are built into our service.
- Vertical Industry Experience.DXC is one of few providers that can fully understand your industry and the implications on your digital transformation, storage environment and cloud, hybrid and compute models.
- Security. DXC provides end-to-end security expertise to protect your data, offering three levels of data protection, from replication to full disaster recovery. We can deliver storage as a service in the most complex and secure environments.
Storage your way
Through our advanced data placement approach, we right-size your storage volumes onto the most appropriate storage media to optimize performance. We offer classes of storage to service block, file and webscale high-capacity requirements, delivering throughput of up to 10 gigabytes per second with latency as low as 6 milliseconds. Once we configure your requirements, we work with you to select the right service availability. We support up to 99.9999 percent uptime for your mission-critical information.
Our service includes a 10 percent capacity buffer to absorb short-term fluctuations, allowing you to react quickly to rapidly changing data storage demands. You can request and configure your storage needs quickly and easily through our online service catalog. Online reporting further simplifies chargebacks to each business unit and keeps you in control of your storage expenses.
By using firewalls, authentication, hard zoning and logical unit masking, we ensure your data is safe even in shared storage scenarios, and that only allocated servers and individuals can access your data.
We also offer backup as a service, which adds protection to your storage in a tapeless environment. By adding Object Storage capabilities to your storage environment, you can store multiple data types with ubiquitous access at an optimal price.