With the explosive growth of data and it's constantly evolving importance, storage is rapidly becoming a central component of corporate technology strategies.

You need an efficient, cost-effective way to make the most of your storage technology. The goal is to create a single, massive data repository that is securely accessible to any system, application, or person across the entire enterprise.

With over 25 years of experience and hundreds of engineers and consultants covering Hitachi, EMC, HP Storageworks and other storage products, SMS is well equipped to deliver the most reliable and cost effective storage solution to meet your demands.

• Our SAN design and implementation service helps you evaluate your existing storage environment. We assist you from assessing your current landscape to planning and design through implementation - transforming your production storage environment into an efficient solution.



• Our SAN management implementation service uses the HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (OVSAM), suite of SAN-management software products to help you optimize your existing storage environment, while enabling you to plan effectively for growth and change.



• Our data replication implementation service provides proper installation and configuration of your data replication products. Speed and accuracy are essential in getting your data replication solution up and running so that you can take advantage of enhanced availability and disaster recovery protection.



• Our backup design and implementation service assures that backups of your server platform are performed optimally and reliably. Our technical consultants work with your staff to analyze, document, design and deploy the most effective backup/archive/restore strategy for your environment.

Our experience in production data centers gives SMS technical services a unique advantage equivalent to the manufacturers, only at half the price and three times as responsive. SMS will complement your strengths and help you chart a course to success and savings.

Our high level of experience with HP-Unix, Solaris, OpenVMS, AIX and Windows enables us to help you maximize your IT investments, minimize your service costs and extend your product life-cycle. Our experience with middleware products such as HP Openview and Veritas Netbackup enable you to have access to production system experts without having to carry them on your staff. We use a flexible and collaborative process that is customized to help you design, build, integrate and manage solutions in the most effective way that makes sense for your business.