SRM Is Knocking; Open The Door

Storage environments struggle to cope with exploding capacity demands, constant availability needs, and strict mandates for data protection. In the face of these challenges, few environments have tools that enable them to consistently view, report on, and manage their storage environments. Instead, they struggle with homegrown tools that are hard to keep current, and their ability to manage effectively suffers. This is not because storage resource management (SRM) tools are not available or not good enough; in fact, there are a wide range of tools on the market that have advanced capabilities to tackle the challenges faced by the vast majority of environments. But companies are not adopting these tools widely, and those that are buying them are not getting the most out of them. The likely reason is that they are too busy with reactive management to make the most of the analysis that these tools can provide. As storage growth continues and challenges mount, firms will have no choice but to take a more proactive approach, which starts by improving their visibility to the environment with capable SRM tools.