Reducing the Cost of Storage Management

摘要

Manageability is a top concern among IT and data center managers, for good reason: integration, deployment and operating costs can be from five to eight times the cost of hardware and software acquisition (Figure 1). Manageability involves a variety of key activities and assets such as installation, configuration, set up, asset tracking, firmware and operating system upgrades, identifying and isolating faulty servers, performing backup and restores, and managing mirror and data duplication servers. How can manageability be improved and management costs reduced? Server and storage management can be improved at several different levels from component to server to data center. This article looks at ways of reducing storage management costs at each of these levels.