HERNDON, VA - February 19, 2013 - ePlus inc. (NASDAQ NGS: PLUS - news) today announced that its subsidiary, ePlus Technology, inc., has expanded its assessment capabilities to offer Enterprise Storage Assessments.  The assessment provides visibility into an organization's storage infrastructure and identifies recommended actions for improving storage efficiency, performance, and availability.

 

In its Enterprise Storage Assessment, ePlus takes an in-depth look at an organization's storage architecture to determine the infrastructure's resiliency, capacity, and cost effectiveness.  After careful data collection and analysis, deliverables include detailed reports and actionable recommendations-all linked to the organization's specific business operations, compliance, financial, technical, and operational factors.

 

ePlus provides comprehensive data center solutions, including design, implementation, and management.  ePlus supports a wide range of environments, including storage vendor arrays such as Brocade, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, and NetApp.  In its Enterprise Storage Assessment findings, ePlus considers multiple storage strategies as well as compare/contrast benefits of different approaches. 

 

"The explosive growth of data, and the related spiraling costs, make it more critical than ever for customers to have effective storage resource management in place," said Mark Marron, president of ePlus Technology.  "Through our Enterprise Storage Assessment, we arm customers with the critical details and recommendations they need to make the most effective use of their multi-vendor storage resources.  We provide insight needed to accurately forecast storage capacity, improve data backup and storage performance, increase application availability, and minimize future storage purchases-driving more savings to their bottom line."

 

ePlus offers a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services, ePlus Service Advantage, to help customers plan, build, support, and optimize their IT infrastructures.  A core component to ePlus Service Advantage are ePlus Assessment Services, which are provided across a broad range of critical technologies, including Security, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Readiness, Cloud Readiness, Core Network, Collaboration, and Enterprise Storage.  ePlus Assessments are an efficient and cost-effective way for customers to understand their environment and improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and security in their IT infrastructure.  For more information about ePlus Assessment Services, visit www.eplus.com/assessments.

 

 

ePlus is a leading integrator of technology solutions. ePlus enables organizations to optimize their IT infrastructure and supply chain processes by delivering world-class IT products from top manufacturers, managed and professional services, flexible lease financing, proprietary software, and patented business methods and systems.  Founded in 1990, ePlus has more than 850 associates serving federal, state, municipal, and commercial customers nationally.  The Company is headquartered in Herndon, VA.  For more information, visit www.eplus.com, call 888-482-1122, or email info@eplus.com. Connect with ePlus on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ePlusinc and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ePlusinc.

 

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