About Contoural - Mission, Team and Advisors - Data and Storage Consulting Services

Strategic Business and Technology Consulting Services
Contoural is a leading independent provider of business and technology consulting services focused on compliance, intelligent data management and storage strategy.

Our Mission
Contoural's mission is to help clients address the emerging business requirements around data, and then align their business needs with their IT strategies and storage spending – enabling them to ensure compliance, optimize service levels, reduce risks and lower costs.

Our Services
Contoural is a pure professional services provider, focused on helping clients align IT strategies with business needs. Since we do not sell or re-sell any hardware or software products, we are able to offer independent and objective advice and assistance. Contoural consulting services cover a broad range of enterprise needs, from compliance assessment and policy definition to storage strategy development, solution architecture design, vendor selection, and deployment assistance.

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Our Clients
Contoural’s clients represent a broad range of industries – including financial services, health care, manufacturing, transportation, energy and retail operations. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area's city of Mountain View, California, the company offers services throughout North America. Contoural has also completed projects for clients in Europe and Asia.

Our Team
The company is composed of experienced, industry-leading consultants and analysts and is guided by an experienced management team and a strong board of advisors.

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Contoural is a Delaware Corporation, and is privately funded.

The Data Dilemma
The volume of electronic data keeps growing exponentially in many organizations, consuming ever-increasing amounts of storage capacity and management time. And in today's regulatory and legal environment, enterprises cannot afford to simply delete old data -- or even neglect to retain it properly.

Although the cost per bit of disk storage is decreasing dramatically, companies continue to spend more on storage hardware, software and people -- both in total costs and as a percentage of IT budgets. These escalating costs are the result of a significant growth in application data, new and increased enforcement of government regulations, and increased costs for managing and operating storage environments. Despite increasing investment in storage, companies still risk fines for non-compliance, and suffer from over-investment in storage solutions, and inconsistent storage processes and service levels across the organization.

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Few organizations have a good conceptual framework for measuring the value of storage, and determining how to best leverage the money that they do spend. Top executives are seeking the answers to two key questions:

		For all the money we are spending on storage, are we effectively and consistently protecting our information and meeting our business needs and regulatory requirements?
		In meeting our storage needs, are we doing it in the most cost-effective manner?

Contoural helps you maximize the returns on your current and future investment in storage by helping you answer these questions, and by making what you have work better and more effectively.