Business issues
This creative analytics provider uses three data centers to support its customers. The IT organization manages up to 100 terabytes of storage and draws upon a heterogeneous hardware and software infrastructure. The company’s fast growth and data-intensive service offerings fueled rising storage requirements. Senior management asked IT to justify additional purchases by demonstrating existing storage optimization and the IT team wanted to simplify the administration of its rapidly-expanding storage environment.

Solutions
IT managers selected and installed Storability® Global Storage Manager (GSM) software.

Financial benefits
Storage administrators were able to use the GSM software to collect the metrics they needed for performing the required ROI analysis.

Business benefits
Implementation of the solution enabled the company to have sufficient visibility into its infrastructure by providing end-to-end views of the entire environment, including backups. All this has enabled centralized management of the company’s multi-site, heterogeneous network.

Technology benefits
The application’s Storage Exception Reports precisely monitor and measure storage allocation and utilization across the company’s devices to enhance capacity planning and other decision-making processes.