Get Storage Smart
Friday, October 9, 2009 5:27Executives at data security and storage management specialists sent the message that it is time to stop buying storage.
Organizations should focus on getting more from previous storage investment. And that is an appealing prospect at a time when many IT departments have less money to spend on storage, fewer people to manage it, but more data than even to store.
The trick to achieving the goal of cutting, or at least curbing, future spending on storage lies in smart use of four key technologies: storage resource management, thin provisioning, data deduplication and intelligent archiving.
Storage resource management aims to tackle the widespread problem of storage capacity that goes unused.
Thin provisioning, meanwhile, is all about allocating only as much capacity as an application requires from a single ‘pool’ of storage resources. Most major storage array manufacturers now support thin provisioning, giving customers the ability to only allocate capacity as needed, but the management tools these vendors offer are usually applicable only to their own hardware, which is a problem in today’s multi=vendor storage environments.
Data deduplication ensures that companies are not storing multiple, redundant copies of the same information.
Finally, intelligent archiving offers organizations the chance to tackle the burden imposed by unnecessary and obsolete unstructured data, primarily that associated with email. After all, emails are often stored many times: in the email server, on the end-user’s PC, on file servers, in SharePoint and in back-ups.
At a time when every business is focused on cutting costs and optimizing existing assets, these tools and techniques offer IT departments the opportunity to see the benefits of rapid cost containment from Day One of their deployment.
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