Business issues
A leading financial services organization is a provider of financial protection and wealth accumulation solutions to over 35 million customers. The company draws upon a heterogeneous storage environment across three data centers containing a cumulative 70 terabytes of data. The storage administration team was located in one data center, but required greater visibility into operations at the other two data centers. System administrators needed a solution that would deliver end-to-end visibility of their entire infrastructure while working efficiently in a low-bandwidth environment. In addition, they wanted a cost-effective application that was vendor-neutral.

Solutions
After evaluating a number of competing solutions, IT managers selected Storability® Global Storage Manager (GSM) software.

Financial benefits
Company administrators used the GSM software to identify 15 terabytes of stranded disk capacity available for reallocation. This allowed the IT team to defer spending millions of dollars on storage arrays.

Business benefits
The company’s management team uses the GSM software to efficiently control its storage infrastructure across all three data centers from a single location.

Technology benefits
Administrators have optimized their storage environment by leveraging the detailed real-time reporting functionality that Global Storage Manager software provides to understand what is installed and how it is being utilized, and to automatically identify improperly-configured or unused storage capacity.