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.