Sirius has a team of certified, experienced storage specialists and consultants dedicated to providing customers with innovative technology solutions across leading storage hardware and software products. Sirius national teams are organized to help you with specific business challenges in today's ever-changing IT landscape, including: Storage Simplification, Data Protection, Data Encryption

Simplifying a storage architecture is a daunting task. Companies have seen the usage of storage increase drastically as they struggle to keep up with the latest hardware, software, and services options to meet the needs. Integrating and simplifying your environment may seem like a job that will never see the light of day. Sirius helps by assessing your current environment, creating a long term roadmap for simplification, and outlining the phases, or small, achievable steps, that you can take to obtain your objectives. Within storage simplification, we pay attention to products and best practices including:

• Storage Consolidation
• Storage Virtualization
• Storage Management

• IBM DS line of disk products
• NetApp FAS line of hardware and software
• IBM SAN Virtualization Center (SVC)
• IBM N5000 Gateway
• IBM N7000 Gateway
• IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC)
• NetApp Data OnTap
• NetApp IS1200

The proliferation of data within a company leads to many challenges, especially since this information is not in a single protected and secure database.  It's in e-mail communications, image files, faxes, personal and departmental database files, just about anywhere you can imagine. Protecting that asset is a growing challenge, and one that is not only being driven by corporate needs but also by compliance regulations. Sirius can help increase the protection of your storage environment by focusing on these key issues:

• Disaster Recovery
• Backup and Recovery
• Software Management Tools
• Managing and Archiving E-mail
• Content Management
• Regulatory Compliance

• Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
• NetApp SnapVault
• NetApp SnapShot
• IBM Systems Managed Storage (DFSMSdss, DFSMShsm) 
• IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510
• IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700
• NetApp VTL
• IBM TS1120 Tape Drive
• IBM TS3200 Tape Library Express
• IBM TS3500 Tape Library
• IBM TS331 Tape Library
• IBM Commonstore
• NetApp/IBM SnapManager for Exchange
• NetApp/IBM SnapManager for SQL
• NetApp/IBM SnapManager for Oracle
• IBM DR550
• NetApp SnapLock
• NetApp LockVault

Locking down information with encryption is a key focus area in storage security. Using a combination of encryption tools including appliances, software, and tape level encryption, Sirius can help you provide increased security in your entire storage environment with no changes to applications, servers, desktops, and storage.

• NetApp Decru DataFort
• IBM Tape Level Encryption (with key management)

• The best trained consultants to support you and your team
• Consultants certified in today's leading storage products and best practices
• Three technology centers used for demonstrations, test site, proof of concept support, and education
• Partnerships with leading storage technology providers such as IBM, NetApp, VMware, Symantec, McData