Explosive data growth, combined with the proliferation of disparate storage management tools and technologies, has created a significant challenge for IT managers tasked with provisioning and maintaining multi-vendor storage environments.

As the market leader in storage management, Symantec can help your organization take control of storage growth. Our advanced solutions provide end-to-end visibility, reporting, and manageability of storage environments, enabling the reclamation of unused or wasted storage space to defer costly storage hardware purchases and reduce administration costs. In addition, you can expect improved data access via availability, performance, and security enhancements.

Challenges

IT managers today must master a difficult balancing act: manage fast-growing data storage, achieve user and application performance level needs, and stay within budget. And, yet, while rapid data growth is increasing storage expenditures, the average data center utilizes only 62 percent of its available storage. The lack of visibility and manageability is preventing enterprises from fully exploiting their assets. By reclaiming unused capacity, vast amounts of expensive, high-performance storage capacity can be made available for reuse, deferring the need to purchase additional high-end devices.

Solutions

Symantec consultants can implement solutions that optimize storage resources to suit your environment, regardless of storage topology, operating environment, or storage hardware. Our phased approach to storage optimization includes: discovery/visualization, storage reporting, storage reclamation, data classification, and policy/process automation.

Symantec’s industry-standard technologies such as storage virtualization, RAID, and others can be configured to maximize disk utilization and accommodate specific environments such as databases or clustered file systems. In addition, our consultants can tune and optimize I/O performance and also determine where database performance hotspots exist by mapping database objects through to the backend storage devices. They can also configure volume or file system level snapshots for database cloning, fast recovery, or off-host processing.

Why Symantec?

Teaming with Symantec consultants, your IT staff can master the difficult balance of meeting your requirements for storage, user and application performance, and budget constraints. By optimizing storage utilization, you can defer expensive storage purchases and significantly reduce your IT asset costs.