Using our Simpana® software Resource Management Module can help you with:
Reporting & Resource Management: The Business Challenge
In today’s tough economic conditions, IT budgets are decreasing and headcounts are freezing while data keeps skyrocketing. Without a clear understanding of what storage resources are being used by each individual, department or application, IT cannot optimize storage management and usage, reduce excess storage purchasing, or deliver improved business performance. The key is to build a strategy around a solid foundation that provides integrated data reporting and predictive capabilities to improve efficiencies and reduce risk.
CommVault® Enterprise Storage Solutions
CommVault offers these products for Storage Resource Management:
- Simpana® Storage Manager for resource, application and file system analysis of data residing on primary storage systems
- CommNet™ Service Manager for enterprise-wide monitoring and analysis of primary storage utilization and secondary storage operations
Storage Manager provides insight into data on primary storage through discovery, trending and analysis. The true value lies in Storage Manager’s ability to improve storage utilization, identify assets and increase visibility into data growth.
CommNet provides consolidated monitoring and analysis of CommVault-managed data movement operations across one or more locations. The true value lies in the ability to monitor service-level attainment, optimize data management services, align data protection policies across storage tiers and minimize costs across the life cycle.
Storage Management Software Market Solutions
Storage management software market analysts strongly advise that IT managers and storage administrators leverage SRM technology from enterprise storage management vendors to gain the ability to make informed decisions on their data landscape. This will enable them to utilize existing resources and only buy capacity when they are sure it is needed, a business requirement for managing more data in an economic downturn. The advisors also strongly recommend leveraging SRM on an on-going basis to ensure that the production environment remains free of unwanted data to maintain operational efficiencies. In fact, storage management software market analysts report that return on investment (ROI) in enterprise storage management technology can be achieved in as little as six months.