Today`s senior IT staff face a number of key and daunting storage challenges; however, there are, in particular, three issues that have surfaced with a vengeance:
1. Managing risk and improving compliance.
2. Storage environment availability and security.
3. Reducing storage costs and complexity.
Undoubtedly, companies should take the necessary steps in order to adhere to the above challenges. Extended storage solutions have become viable solutions that enable companies to benefit from the coupling of security, systems management and storage expertise.
One of the main benefits of these extended storage solutions is that they tap into existing, well-established functionality that offer more secure environments while also utilising system management technology that allow for a more manageable infrastructure.
The reality is that storage systems are no longer disconnected from the rest of the enterprise and needs to be managed as part of the larger system. The alternative can leave you struggling to conduct root cause analysis in complex environments that include business processes that span the IP network, the Fibre Channel SAN and the IP SAN.
The good news for senior IT staff is that existing system management solutions can now readily and easily adopt storage technology, allowing them to extend their IP network and systems management into the SAN infrastructure, providing them with end-to-end business process views.
By deploying such an extended and integrated storage solution companies can finally obtain accurate information on the business impact within the storage environment. Therefore, if a backup job fails the IT department can immediately determine the resultant risk to the business and act immediately.
Extended storage solutions have taken the management and protection of companies` environments to the next level, enabling them to benefit from a myriad of functionalities that simplify storage management, adhere to security and compliance issues and ultimately drive down costs.
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