What business challenges does storage-management address?
As information continues to drive worldwide growth, several critical challenges face information systems professionals: Shortage of qualified IT staff: With business locations around the world, data centers have been extended and multiple operating systems are common. As demand continues to outpace supply, it becomes increasingly difficult and expensive to locate and retain qualified IT staff to handle these environments. Meeting Service Level Agreements: Demand on limited staff is increasing as availability and performance expectations continue to rise. Keeping systems and information available: Companies cannot afford the lost productivity incurred during planned or unplanned downtimes. As a result, time available for backup and disaster recovery testing is shrinking dramatically, while efforts to support business continuity are in strong demand. Maintaining flexible storage infrastructure: Business requirements change quickly. Companies need to add and re-deploy open-systems hosts r
