| With businesses' growing need for expansive data | | | | With the right reporting and management solution, |
| space compounded by limited IT budgets, | | | | administrators can view the amount of data space |
| administrators need to maximize their resources and | | | | provided for applications, the amount of storage |
| keep costs down. An efficient storage capacity | | | | actually used, and the applications that are at risk of |
| manager allows administrators to ensure that | | | | running out of data storing space. |
| mission-critical applications have the right amount of | | | | The right solution also enables IT administrators to |
| data space to keep them running. | | | | identify which applications are using a low percentage |
| As they grow and expand the scope of their services, | | | | of their allocated data space. This allows |
| businesses may need to run more applications for | | | | administrators to maximize these areas of unutilized |
| various processes. Enterprise applications need to be | | | | space by allocating them somewhere else. |
| up and running at all times. If applications go down, it | | | | An efficient capacity manager that gives a |
| can have severe financial impact on the business. | | | | 360-degree view of the storage environment can also |
| Many applications do not consume the actual amount | | | | enable IT administrators to view data management, |
| of storage allocated for them. For IT administrators, it | | | | allocation and consumption from storage arrays and |
| can be a challenge to track applications' actual storage | | | | hosts. In addition to managing current allocation and |
| use. But with an efficient capacity manager that | | | | consumption, the solution also allows administrators to |
| provides an end-to-end view of the storage | | | | predict future storage requirements and plan for |
| environment, administrators can track storage | | | | capacity. |
| information for applications more efficiently. | | | | |