Check out storage resource management

When economic times were good and IT departments found themselves short on storage capacity, the solution was simple--throw more money and capacity at the problem.

Today there is an expensive storage hangover in the works, especially with power cost growing and a need to find new storage resource management solutions. InformationWeek asked for advice from SRM software vendors on how best monitor storage system and interconnect status; automate routine configuration tasks; and facilitate movement of data across the storage infrastructure.

They received responses from BridgeHead Software in California, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Network Appliance, Northern, Symantec, and Tek-Tools Software, along with newcomer Olocity.

To read what they had to say:
- check out this informationweek.com article [1]

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