Resource Center

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Most organizations today are evolving toward a hybrid IT enterprise architecture, meaning their operations are split between the cloud and the traditional on-premises network. Many important enterprise applications are moving to the cloud, along with some more basic infrastructure such as storage and application development platforms. When cloud services falter, you need to know why – but often lack visibility beyond the firewall.

One TB of SAN-based storage typically costs about $5000 USD. But the average organization often has GBs and TBs of wasted, abandoned, and mis-allocated storage. With the right tools, organizations can identify and reclaim wasted storage space, saving money while adding efficiency. This whitepaper discusses strategies for managing storage usage in order to reduce costs and gain the greatest ROI possible.

To get maximum benefit when driving out storage management costs you need to first drive in efficiency through a proper analysis of the IT environment. Today, tools exist that provide independent third party analysis of the storage environment and how applications interact with that environment. In this whitepaper, learn how to cut storage costs by inventorying the data set, mapping primary and secondary data and assessing performance.

Broadly, the goal of Total Capacity Management is to ensure that all resources in the data center are being used at an effective but safe level. In this whitepaper, learn the critical value of implementing tools that not only improves resource utilization, but also allow for capacity planning. Too little resource utilization and tight budget dollars are wasted. Too much utilization and an organization’s digital assets are put at risk.

Server virtualization has caused dramatic changes to the data center’s storage infrastructure. In many cases, it has driven the first purchase and implementation of a shared storage system. In others, it has created a situation where performance or capacity of their shared storage is a problem, again, for the first time. To address these issues, data centers of all sizes should look for a storage monitoring and management tool that goes beyond the capabilities of the vendor software, especially if the data center is moving toward a virtualized server environment.

The Storage Resource Manager (SRM) market has consolidated more quickly than the storage market itself, and in most cases the companies are acquired by an array manufacturer. This has created a quandary for users as the acquired products have become focused on their new companies hardware, often at the expense of multi-vendor storage support or visibility into the complete infrastructure. One of the lone remaining independent storage resource management tools is SolarWinds Storage Profiler.