Business issues
The bank’s storage-administration team wanted to increase the EMC disk subsystem utilization rates at its primary and disaster recovery (DR) data centers. Executives wanted detailed reports and assessments on all aspects of the bank’s storage environment to strengthen its negotiating position with storage vendors. However, the storage administration team didn’t have enough visibility into disk usage and struggled to meet the executives’ reporting needs.

Solutions
The bank chose Storability® Global Storage Manager (GSM) software to deliver the required visibility into its network—from server to back-end array.

Financial benefits
The GSM software gave administrators a precise picture of the existing storage environment to enable more effective negotiations with vendors. By increasing the utilization of installed disk systems, they reduced new disk-capacity purchases.

Business benefits
The newly-available end-to-end view of the environment resulted in more accurate capacity planning to enhance purchasing decisions and maximize the return on investment for storage devices. The GSM software gave administrators an efficient way to manage the bank’s entire infrastructure from a single location.

Technology benefits
With GSM installed at the institution’s two key locations, storage administrators have up-to-the-minute capacity and usage information, along with the ability to quickly optimize the environment.