Technology Refresh of Storage Infrastructure in Enterprise Business

In today's world of business, data is what drives business. Enterprise business are looking for information drive their business forward and they cannot succeed that if they cannot protect their data. Storage infrastructure is used to store the enterprise data for better protection, reliability and availability. Every enterprise business such as banking, telecom, defence, manufacturing, share market, science, aerospace all are highly dependent on the storage infrastructure to store, maintain , retrieve data with integrity and high performance. As business requirement and dependency are increasing in Storage infrastructure in prospective of performance, data criticality, availability, reliability, a technology refresh is become the necessity. Technology refresh -defined as replacement of an older server or storage array with a new one to achieve the business target and it is the primary driver of the data migration. It is critical to migrate data to their target location as quickly as possible without downtime and impacting the performance. This paper discuss the technology refresh of storage infrastructure strategies and propose customised approach which simplify the technology refresh, speed the process and ensure the data integrity.