Data Storage Solutions
Green IT initiatives and high availability data storage solutions from ConRes can greatly help reduce your data center costs.
Continental Resources (ConRes) offers a full line of data storage solutions to address your data warehousing, data discovery, and data recovery needs. In addition, ConRes can also help your business enhance your green IT inititaves by taking into consideration the entire environment to save and conserve thermal energy, floor space, power, and more.
ConRes offers high availability data storage solutions focused on your specific needs, including clustering and shared storage, backup remote synchronization techniques, and more.
Storage Discovery
- Current State Assessment
- Capacity Planning
- Architectural Planning & Design
Storage Economics
- ROI
- TCO
- ROA
- CAPEX
- OPEX
Sustainable IT
- Green Initiatives
- Reduce HVAC Requirements
- Intelligent Power Management
- Smaller Footprint
Implementation and Integration Services
- Rack & Stack
- LUN Mapping/Provisioning
- Data Migration – Frame or Host Based
- SAN Zoning
- Proofs of Concept/Staging
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Synchronous/Asynchronous
- FC/FCIP
Highly Available Storage Solutions
- Redundancy
- Failover
- RAID Protection
Content and Archiving Indexing
Business factors considered include:
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Archival costs vs. budget
- Archives based on business value
of data - Your policies and processes
Technical factors considered include:
- Redundancy
- Access performance
- Tiering requirements
- Storage policy
- Integration with existing hardware
- Reducing scan times
- Reducing window of time needed
for archiving - Other factors
Backup/Restore
- Full/Incremental
- Continuous Data Protection Over Distance
ConRes provides the design and implementation experience for a backup solution based on:
- Your total amount of data
- Patterns of change to your data
- Maximum amount of data willing to be lost in relation to an event.
Storage Optimization
- Dynamic Pooling
- Dynamic Tiering
- Thin Provisioning
Storage Technologies Supported
- SSD
- NAS
- SAN
- iSCSI
- SAS
Continental Resources becomes First Partner to offer Iron Mountain's Tape Vaulting Service
The Continental Resources (ConRes) Managed Services team, a leading provider of systems management and monitoring, has partnered with Iron Mountain to offer a secure, easy, and affordable way to back up your critical data. Along with Iron Mountain’s Tape Vaulting Service, ConRes Managed Services can help monitor critical aspects of your tape backup. ConRes is the first partner able to offer this tape backup service to their customers.
Multimedia
Video: Dynamic Data Center
In this video learn how a Dynamic Data Center (now called FlexPod) is an IT architecture that offers a comprehensive strategic solution to a range of data-storage and management headaches—which, in turn, generates rapid and robust ROI.Video: Exchange Server Migration
Join Paul Begley, Solution Architect, as he discusses how to leverage ConRes' strong partnerships with NetApp and Microsoft in an Exchange Server Migration.Video: The Role of Tape Storage in Today's Enterprise
Join Mark Marro, product champion at ConRes, as he discusses the role of tape storage in today's enterprise. Mark will talk about the benefits of using tape storage, in particular Oracle's Sun tape product line.Webinar: Boost Data Storage Efficiency with Open Storage
Oracle's Sun Open Storage solutions offer more flexibility and superior storage economics than traditional data storage architecture, and allow IT teams to quickly find and fix issues, minimize downtime, and reduce the cost of deployment. Join us and learn more about how you can leverage the benefits of open storage to meet today’s challenging storage requirements.Webinar: Discover What the World's Fastest Database Machine Can Do for You
Oracle’s customers are saying that Oracle Exadata is helping them exceed their own expectations—pushing database performance, facilitating decision-making, and cutting budgets thanks to new levels of efficiency. Join Ben Muise, ConRes Senior Systems Engineer, for an in-depth update on Oracle Exadata's game-changing technology. Ben has been with ConRes for 25 years supporting Fortune 1000 companies, government and academia. In this informative webinar you'll learn why a database machine that delivers extreme performance for online transaction processing and data warehousing applications can revolutionize your business.Webinar: Open Storage - A High Performance Solution That Fits Your Budget
Is exponential data growth challenging your IT managers to scale storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight IT budgets? Join Continental Resources (ConRes) and Frost & Sullivan experts for an in-depth discussion on how Open Storage solutions combine the benefits of open-source software with industry-standard hardware – reducing your reliance on high-priced systems and saving up to 70% on storage costs.Webinar: Oracle Exadata Forrester
Join Forrester Research for an informative webinar on how Oracle Exadata Database Machine provides faster reporting and just-in-time queries and scalability to meet future storage requirements.Webinar: The Role of Tape in Today's Enterprise (ConRes and Forrester Research)
If you think tape is dead, think again. Despite the perception that tape is an older technology, tape, tape drives and libraries continue to develop with new technology, performance and ROI. Join Continental Resources (ConRes) Solutions Architect, Mark Marro and Rachel Dines from Forrester Research as they answer the question "What is the role of tape in today’s enterprise?"
Solution Sheets
Data Sheet: IBM XIV Storage System (271 KB pdf file)
IBM XIV Storage System is a groundbreaking, high-end, open disk system designed to support business requirements for a highly available information infrastructure.Solution Sheet: Bring Your Business-Critical Workload to the Cloud: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (2 MB pdf file)
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform steamlines the management of servers, storage and networking components as business resource pools.Solution Sheet: Data Storage (414 KB pdf file)
Overview of professional services offering a full line of data storage solutions
Whitepapers and Briefs
Whitepaper: Exadata Exceeds Expectations (151 KB pdf file)
What became clear from the start, and was reinforced by numerous customer panels as well as one-on-one interviews with users, was that Oracle's claims regarding Exadata's speed, efficiency, and scalability were not hype.Whitepaper: The Role of Tape in Today's Enterprise (637 KB pdf file)
If you think tape is dead, think again. Tape is a key part of a comprehensive enterprise storage management solution.Whitepaper: Virtual Storage Delivers a 3 Dimensional Approach to Storage Scaling (614 KB pdf file)
3D Scaling enables users to independently scale performance, scale capacity, and scale wide, integrating legacy assets and allowing the VSP to ultimately scale to multiple data centers.














