Signature Technology Group (STG) offers consulting services to help companies modernize their backup infrastructure. STG consultants conduct discovery activities and facilitate workshops to develop design options that meet technical and operational requirements. They then provide a recommendation with a future state design and implementation plan. STG aims to help clients leverage cloud backup options and select the most appropriate backup technologies within budget.

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Are you ready to tech-refresh, rationalize expenditures, and modernize
your backup environment?
Is your backup environment performing up to industry standards?
Need independent guidance to help make technology decisions and define
the right future state design?
Are you ready to leverage cloud for backup but overwhelmed by the wide
array of options?
Moving from a legacy backup infrastructure to an advanced future state is
a challenge. The need to embrace new technology is complicated due to
vendor hype and emerging solutions. Add this to the balancing act of
limited time, budget, and priorities and it’s no surprise that IT
organizations often struggle with modernizing their backup infrastructure.
STG offers vendor independent guidance and expertise that you need to
ensure the most appropriate technology decisions are being made to meet
your business requirements.
Sound Decisions for New Technology
STG consultants will quickly perform discovery activities and facilitate a strategy workshop(s) with all key-
stakeholders involved in your backup infrastructure initiative. We then develop design options in relation to
both technical requirements and operational practices, outlining pros/cons of each alternative. Using
proven methodologies, we help our clients reach consensus on the final future state design. Finally, we
deliver a recommendation with supporting rationale and practical next steps.
Signature Technology Group Backup & Recovery Experts Work with Your Team to:
 Conduct discovery on current state Backup & Recovery Services
 Conduct a gap analysis to assess current state against future requirements and growth rates
 Evaluate technology solutions
 Develop design alternatives for a modernized future state including:
o Opportunities to leverage the Cloud for backup/recovery services
o Enterprise backup application alternatives (if applicable)
Typical Activities:
Stages Activities
Stage 1 Project Initiation, Discovery Interviews, Data Collection
Stage 2 Facilitated Design Workshop(s)
Stage 3 Reference Architecture Development, Sizing, Performance & ROI Analysis
Project Closure Final Presentation

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Typical Deliverables:
 Current State Presentation
 Design alternatives with supporting rationale
 Design recommendation with supporting rationale
 ROI analysis inclusive of:
o Hardware, software, labor estimates, cost/risk benefit summaries
 Detailed future state roadmap
 Implementation plan for deployment
Optional Deliverables Include:
 Formal business case development
 Cost modeling
 POC Plan
 Creation of operational run-books, SOPs, etc.
 Implementation of future state design
The Benefits of Working with Signature Technology Group Include:
 Industry leading expertise around cloud for backup, & recovery software, VTL, & deduplication
technologies
 Deep field experience redesigning & optimizing backup implementations
 Reduced time to deploy backup software, VTL, & deduplication technologies
 Success through STG facilitated workshop(s) establishing stakeholders’ buy-in
 Providing measurable ROI analysis
 Ability to leverage STG proprietary tools & delivery methodologies