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Managing storage resources.

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Managing storage across a large enterprise is both a priority and a challenge for organizations today. With data volumes growing at unprecedented rates, compliance requirements adding another concern to already overburdened and understaffed IT departments, and budgets remaining relatively flat, the need for storage management is not only critical but increasing.

Indeed, IT organizations are struggling to deal with the compounded growth of storage, estimated to be 55 percent for the average company. The way these organizations see it, by making better use of existing storage resources through intelligent management, they can drive down the cost and complexity typically associated with data growth.

However, not all organizations' storage needs are the same. For example, organizations interested primarily in tactical management may be able to meet their goals by using the tools supplied by hardware vendors.

Other organizations need more. These organizations are looking for tools that will integrate storage resource management together with performance and policy management, storage provisioning, and SAN management in order to ensure a more efficient storage infrastructure. What's more, by actively managing storage resources, from application to array, IT organizations are better able to satisfy...