Business issues
This leading global financial-services company operates hundreds of data centers around the world. In an effort to optimize asset- and cost-management of its 3,000 terabytes of storage, the firm needed to find a tool that would enable the IT organization to manage all data centers from a central location. Managers also needed to know what was installed throughout the enterprise and to accurately assess how it was all being utilized. In addition, the infrastructure needed a solution that was “passive and non-toxic,” would deliver heterogeneous environmental support, and would allow a rapid global implementation schedule.

Solutions
After evaluating their options, IT managers selected Storability® Global Storage Manager (GSM) software because the application was the only available storage-management solution capable of providing a single, centralized storage-management view that included their entire environment, correlated end-to-end. Now they have visibility into their applications, their direct-attached storage, NAS, SAN-attached storage, secondary storage and archive-backup systems.

Financial benefits
Global Storage Manager software has facilitated the managers’ move to an internal ISP model, enabling the company to realize significant benefits from greatly-improved management of assets and expenses.

Business benefits
With a scalable, highly secure design, Global Storage Manager software easily supports all of the company’s data centers and the multitude of devices installed worldwide.

Technology benefits
Asset management and utilization are simplified by the software’s topology-mapping functionality. Managers can quickly see logical volumes across all host platforms, use inside databases, utilization of raw devices and much more. Administrators can analyze data paths, fan-in and fan-out ratios, and connectivity details ─ and can even navigate to a device to launch the appropriate management tool.