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Find below a few of our success stories.

Continuum Health Partners (Secaucus, NJ) - With the IBM SofTek TDMF data migration tool, CDS helped lower the total storage environment operating budget The total operating cost of this Healthcare Partnership was over $16 1 million With our extensive and comprehensive knowledge of HIPAA, FDA regulation and certifications, CDS hit the ground running with storage re-architecture, consolidation and data migration from EMC Symmetrix to IBM DS8300 We saved this Hospital Group over one million dollars in operational and infrastructural budget over one and half years Operational downtime cost has since been reduced by 94%

CNA Insurance (Chicago, IL) - Consolidated Data Storage demonstrated storage vendor agnostic expertise in this datacenter move from downtown Chicago to a Chicago subub CDS came in and took leadership in the data storage aspect of the datacenter move We leveraged our thorough understanding of both server and storage sides of the enterprise in migrating hundreds of terabytes of data from old Symmetrix to new EMC DMXs in a 96% AIX UNIX environment We configured and started EMC SRDF replication, over 90% in storage capacity and business continuity managed services cost was recorded and maintained

McDade Woodcock (Albuquerque, NM) - CDS planned and implemented the first SAN for this manufacturer Based on the assessment of the customer's environment, our recommendation was to have all hosts boot from an IBM SAN Our involvement here was from start to finish - rack, stack, implement, configure, provision, deliver the IBMDS4800 SAN and IBM H Class Blade Chassis environment Storage utilization and management has been kept under control Ease of management and low storage budget has since been maintained at this customer environment

Gwinnet County Public School (Suwanee, GA) - The gains emanated from CDS' successful implementation of the IBM SVC (SAN Volume Controller) for the storage environment at this Public School System of GA: 85% reduction in storage operation time, 90% reduction in multi-vendor storage related licensing, 52% reduction in annual storage infrastructural maintenance budget and hundrends of dollars per year in power savings

ERCOT (Taylor, TX) - Remote Data replication using SRDF/A and SRDF Adaptive Copy for enterprise data migration between sites Hundreds of terabytes of data was migrated between sites Planning, implementation, configuration, initial Copy and managed copy

MTV/Viacom (Manhattan, NY) - UNIX Host Based Migration using the Quantum StorNext Metadata from EMC CLARiiON to IBM DS4000 CDS configured all target devices (DS4000), meta devices (StorNetx) and also kick-off migration

Glaxo (Durham, NC) - EMC RecoverPoint (CDP, CRR, CLR) datacenter migration - CDS' SAN architect planned, configured the solution for implentation engineer

VSP - Vision Service Plan (Sacramento, CA) - IBM XIV to EMC VMAX migration CDS' SAN Architect was the onsite resource for VMAX configuration, migration planning and implementer

SunTrust Bank (Atlanta, GA) - SVC (SAN Volume Controller) Nine different vendor array virtualization behind an IBM SVC

Citizens Bank (Sandy Springs, GA) - Storage assessment of the Host, Fabric and Storage Controller layers A thorough assessment of the customer's storage infrastructure, tuning and re-architecture of both fabric and storage controller layer brought about: 88% increase in response time

DS8300 implementation @ HBO, DS8100 implementation @ HIG, Storage Architecture @ Thrifty, SAN implementation @ PBH, SAN Performance Analysis @ Komatsu, SAN implementation @ ENMU, SVC implementation @ BJServices, Storage Advisory @ MSC, FCoE Implementation @ Juniper Networks, Storage Provisioning @ Goldman Sachs, NetApp Architecture @ inComm, VMAX Configuration @ inComm, CLARiiON Migration @ InComm - are a few of our previous engagements and success stories

Consolidated Data Storage otherwise known as CDS North America provides data Storage and business continuity services Data storage comprises of implementation and delivery of storage area networks, network attached storage, content addressable storage and the daily exercises involved in maintaining them Business continuity comprises of all strategies involved in sending backup copies of production data to remote locations while business is ongoing and the ability to invoke the remote backup copies to restart business operation after a disaster has occurred