| Storage capacity reporting itself is central to a wide | | | | Depending on their findings - based on whether they |
| range of key enterprise activities that revolve around | | | | find current solutions to be inadequate or excessive - |
| capacity management. This range of services involves | | | | a capacity manager may recommend tuning or |
| the creation, implementation and revision of plans as | | | | changes to storage infrastructure in order to allow for |
| needed in order to allow users to properly handle all | | | | better utilization of a company's capacity management |
| activities related to their storage needs. | | | | solutions and resources. To this end, stored data |
| The first activity is the production of a capacity | | | | capacity enhancements may be advocated. For |
| management plan concerning where to store the data, | | | | example, the adoption of larger-capacity solutions that |
| its capacity, when it is to be upgraded and other key | | | | may allow for faster or less complicated storage or |
| decisions. Top management crafts this plan in | | | | retrieval may be recommended to replace |
| coordination with the recommendations of companies' | | | | smaller-capacity devices that may also be slower to |
| IT groups and based on such factors as the number | | | | respond, thus sapping productivity. Since the needs of |
| of employees, company activities, the state of the | | | | company divisions may themselves change as division |
| industry itself and so on. This plan is put to the test | | | | workloads increase or decrease over time, those in |
| once the storage capacity systems are used. Through | | | | charge of storage capacity reporting often input |
| the use of capacity reporting solutions, IT personnel | | | | allowances in their recommendations should sudden |
| can monitor the service levels of the IT solutions | | | | mid-course corrections become necessary. |
| employed over specified periods of time. | | | | |