Increase Your Storage Utilization
Data growth is explosive – growing by 80% or more per year. The dilemma storage administrators face, however, is limited budgets to buy more hardware and satisfy this never-ending demand. In today’s economy, the days of unlimited POs to buy storage capacity are over. But that does not change the fact that you still need more space.The only alternative to purchasing new storage is to make the most out of your current storage. The challenge is knowing where to look.
The traditional approach to storage involves the allocation of space to users based on requests, and the storage administrator’s job ends there. Unfortunately, applications, systems and people tend to overestimate their needs, and most IT departments do not have any visibility into how much of that allocated storage is actually being used. Gaining visibility into storage usage is essential to the optimization of your existing storage resources.
APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager
Reclaim Dark Storage
A tool with visibility into usage is the only way to locate hidden, unused storage resources in your SAN. By delivering an end-to-end view of storage consumption – from the storage arrays down to the hosts, applications and files – APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager empowers you to identify and reclaim “dark” storage that has been allocated but not used by the hosts.
Improve Provisioning Accuracy and Capacity Planning
Storage is often wasted by over-allocation to hosts that do not use the space. APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager improves the accuracy of storage allocation, and consequently your storage efficiency, by identifying over-provisioned hosts APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager also dramatically reduces your storage costs from day one and delivers immediate ROI by eliminating the need for short-term storage purchases and improving long-term capacity planning. With APTARE’s highly accurate forecasting of array and host usage, you will know exactly how much storage you need in the future.
Increase Storage Management Efficiency
APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager is a non-intrusive agentless solution, saving you the time and effort of installing, configuring, maintaining and upgrading monitoring agents on every host and server.APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager is also extremely easy to use, offering intuitive drag-n-drop reports and dashboards, Web 2.0 functionality, and effortless navigation to streamline your storage management processes and boost your productivity. Information sharing via email and mobile phone means all stakeholders – from storage operations to your management team – are kept informed.
Proactively Resolve Problems
APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager monitors your environment 24/7 and sends alerts so you can solve issues before they become problems that impact storage performance. Flexible alerting options include email, scripts, or SNMP traps, and you can customize alerts to fit your environment and compliance needs. APTARE StorageConsole Capacity Manager can even be set up to automatically remediate the issue by generating a custom script or interfacing with a ticketing system via SNMP.
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