Our clients are increasingly under pressure to ensure storage assets are utilised to maximum advantage and managed for less . Our Information Life-cycle Management (ILM) approach to backup, storage and archiving design leverages our information architecture and disaster recovery competence, and involves activities ranging from data classification through to a hierarchically tiered storage strategies. Some of the technology themes that Lefatshe include in this solution offering include:

• SAN - Storage Area Network
• NAS - Network Attached Storage
• iSCSI - Internet SCSI
• SAS - Serial-Attached SCSI
• DAS - Direct Attached Storage
• D2T - Disk to Tape
• B2D - Backup to Disk
• B2D2T - Backup to Disk (and) to Tape

With Backup, Storage and Archiving playing such an integral role in ICT it is no surprise that on average 40% of the IT budget is spent on storage renewal and growth. Lefatshe can help our clients realise a return on storage investment through well designed architecture and strategy leading to optimised tiering , archiving and monitoring for performance, availability and data loss/leakage risk management.

Lefatshe can achieve such optimisation of storage infrastructure by using best practices and proven methodologies to design best-fit solutions, and facilitate migration and storage consolidation. Lefatshe assists its clients in migrating towards an enterprise-wide, single-pane storage management capability paying close attention to SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Alliance) standards such as eXtensible Access Method (XAM) and others that differentiate the key vendors who support heterogeneous storage management.

Lefatshe can also provide managed shared or dedicated storage services and back-up infrastructure, located at the clients site or in one of the Lefatshe or partner data-centres equipped with multi-client, shared/dedicated infrastructure for storage, archiving and backup. These services can be delivered remotely or onsite or in a combination.

Lefatshe has secured the status of "Exclusive Supplier & Integrator" for H3C storage equipment in South Africa that takes storage to new levels of performance and affordability ranging from small storage needs (12TB) IP SAN/NAS technology through to high end world first 250TB 10Gbps end-to-end technology that can improve I/O bandwidth of each port of storage systems (as much as 2.5 to 5 times that of current storage systems). This technology also has the potential of expanding to 40Gbit/s and even 100Gbit/s in the future.