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Definition
Improve end-to-end visibility, reporting, and manageability of storage environments to reclaim unused or wasted storage space, to defer costly storage hardware purchases, and reduce administration costs.
Challenges
- Managing the rapid data growth in enterprise businesses
- Utilizing existing storage assets efficiently
- Gaining visibility into actual usage of existing storage assets
- Rectifying impaired availability, performance, and security of data center environments
Symantec Solution: Storage Management
Standardize and automate the management of heterogeneous storage platforms to maximize storage utilization, increase IT responsiveness, and lower infrastructure and operational costs.
- Optimize storage resources regardless of storage topology, operating environment, or storage hardware
- Maximize disk utilization and accommodate specific environments such as databases or clustered file systems using industry-standard technologies such as storage virtualization
- Optimize storage resources using a phased approach featuring storage optimization and including discovery/visualization, storage reporting, storage reclamation, data classification, and policy/process automation
