Tony Asaro of the INI Group interviewed an IT professional that is a global storage service manager for a large financial firm. This is how he describes his role:

"I played a pretty significant role in building the SAN environment. I've been involved in storage with the company since 2000 and I built it from ground up. I've done several migrations throughout the years for either data center migrations or technology refreshes."

The following is an overview of their IT environment:

• Financial industry
• Thirty thousand employees
• Twelve petabytes of global storage
• Twelve thousand ports
• Six thousand servers globally
• EMC DMX
• Legacy CLARiiON

Listen to individual answers by clicking on the following questions:

1. Please give us a background of your company.
2. How many storage systems?
3. What is your role with the company?
4. Why did you decide to work with SANpulse?
5. Can you share with us the process you went through to decide on implementing SANpulse's SANlogics solution?
6. You had identified very clearly that data migrations happen much more efficiently when you have really good information about the envirnoment during the discovery phase. Was there also a difference in the quality of data that you collected between the two processes?
7. Can you give us a little bit more insight on how it helped you in terms of reducing costs, what other kind of impact it's had for you guys economically in your data center?
8. What about other examples of value that is provided that aren't directly economically related?
9. Other IT professionals who are listening to this and they are thinking about embarking on such a project with SANpulse, What would you give them in terms of recommendations or insights?
10. Would you recommend SANpulse to other IT professionals and can you tell us why?

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