Enterprise Storage Modernization and Data Lifecycle Management

A storage infrastructure refresh and data management strategy that improves performance, reduces risk, and establishes tiered data lifecycle policies across the enterprise.

PRACTICE

Digital Foundations

CLIENT PROFILE

Federal agency managing petabytes of mission-critical data across multiple classification levels with aging storage infrastructure

Challenge

Legacy storage arrays approaching end-of-support with growing capacity demands
No formal data lifecycle or tiering strategy — all data treated equally regardless of access patterns
Backup and recovery processes are manual, slow, and insufficiently tested

Approach

Assess current storage utilization, performance bottlenecks, and data classification
Design tiered storage architecture with high-performance, capacity, and archive tiers
Implement automated data lifecycle policies for migration, retention, and disposition
Modernize backup and disaster recovery with validated recovery time objectives

Typical Outcomes

Reduced storage costs through intelligent data tiering and deduplication
Improved I/O performance for mission-critical applications
Validated disaster recovery with documented and tested RPO/RTO targets

Procurement Paths

NASA SEWP V for enterprise storage platforms
ITES-4H for Army storage hardware
GSA MAS for data management and migration services

Partner Technology Examples

NetApp
Dell Technologies
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
VMware

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