The global economy is rapidly driving businesses to do more with less. Advances in information technology (IT) have pushed companies to adopt technology solutions to make them more efficient. But along with these wonderful solutions come growing challenges to the enterprise. Managing operations across today's complex and rapidly growing storage environments to maintain application data availability presents an especially formidable challenge. Companies have to manage increasingly complex storage environments to higher service levels despite the fact that the current growth of these environments is already outstripping the ability of the IT staff to manage them effectively.
Fortune 2000 enterprises face a difficult management problem. They have to manage large storage environments that involve geographically dispersed locations with a growing number of diverse storage devices. Operating in a fiercely competitive business environment, they must ensure a high quality of service.
In addition, each organization’s service level agreement (SLA) needs to be organized independently even though multiple organizations may share many of the same storage assets. This paper focuses on the economic impact of storage resource management (SRM) and the need for an effective SRM solution. It describes the requirements a solution must meet to provide effective management of storage environments. Finally, it presents Softek Storage Manager software, an SRM solution designed specifically to meet the complex storage management requirements of today’s global economy.