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Storage Virtualization Products | SANsymphony | Problems Addressed
Taneja Analyst Group Profiles SANsymphony 6.0 and The Storage Challenged Virtual Enterprise: The 5 Top
Storage Challenges Confronting Virtual Server Deployments Download White Paper.
SANsymphony™ software addresses chronic and costly storage management problems that plague large enterprises and midsize companies alike. In particular, 'Powered by DataCore™' solutions focus on the many uncertainties surrounding provisioning, managing and protecting storage resources.
Consider the following four areas where even educated guesses are frequently wrong:
- Disk allocation
- How much capacity is necessary and where best to assign it?
- What quality of service is most appropriate given priorities and budget constraints?
- Staffing
- How many system administrators and hardware technicians will be required to keep up with anticipated growth?
- What vendor-specific skills training will that entail?
- Downtime & Disaster Recovery
- When and where will storage failures impact applications?
- How will reconfiguration affect business?
- How long before the company recovers from these incidents?
- Technology upgrades
- What's coming in next year's models?
- Which manufacturer will have the better product, and at what price?
- How can equipment be swapped out with minimum disruption?
Each of these unknowns has major ramifications on how much is spent on equipment, people and processes, as well as on how much yield can be expected from the IT infrastructure. Their impact becomes magnified in heterogeneous environments because operations and decision-making tend to be closely tied to vendor-specific hardware.
Companies can avert the risks and contain the costs associated with natural uncertainty by consolidating and automating storage control under DataCore's SANsymphony software.
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