Solitaire’s Sizing and Timing Analysis compares a company's current storage limitations with selected corporate standards. A sizing analysis is performed on the company's financial data, including projected increases in storage requirements over the minimum or mandated retention period. Additional analysis is performed on the speed of backups and storage, which also incorporates network load and availability, to ensure the minimum of downtime while maintaining the required data, and to allow the organization to evaluate critical performance windows. This type of analysis is frequently performed in conjunction with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and provides a window on the critical time frames that are associated with the increased need for data retention.

Since this type of study is normally done for a three to five year projection window, the study deliverables are separated into time slices, with anticipated capacity levels for all resources defined during and at the end of each time period. These resources include personnel as well as processing, network, and storage resources. The analysis associates the total cost of ownership for the system during the that time frame, with suggested strategies for cost containment as appropriate.

The deliverables from this analysis are similar to those of the other operational SIL offerings. Additional information is available upon request.