Storage Service Management
Overview
The larger organisation faces the challenge of managing multiple devices, capacity planning, performance and operational management tasks. In the mid-range environment these functions are typically available through the advanced functions of the storage subsystem but as the environment grows the quantity of raw data generated can become difficult to manage and monitor.
Also, as storage environments are refreshed, reducing TCO by creating and managing different service levels is becoming critical. To deliver this in a complex, multi device, multi-vendor environment, organisations need to consolidate all the individual reporting functions into a single user interface - a dashboard over the whole environment.
Storage Resource Management software is designed to monitor and manage all the key aspects of the storage environment:
| Fabric |
Including topography, failure alerts, performance bottlenecks
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| Data |
Including backup success, capacity management, storage provisioning
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| Disk |
Including configuration of multiple devices from a single interface, performance monitoring and alerts
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All the major storage vendors provide storage resource management tools. This is an evolving area and the software is improving rapidly.
Key Deliverables
Enabling more storage to be managed by the same number of staff
Detecting failed backups and hardware failures
Create a service catalogue matching cost and performance with the business value of the data.
Vendor Alliance
