Software to optimize data storage management and operational control
Consolidate data storage management in a single dashboard
Today’s IT landscape is dominated by data. From the hot data teams access on an hourly basis to the cold data you need to have but don’t need to access every day, organizations have become repositories for larger volumes of information than ever before.
With effective data storage management software, it’s possible to exercise precise control over where this data goes, how it’s stored, and how it’s accessed when teams need it. SolarWinds® Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) is designed to make this process easier by consolidating data storage management into a single dashboard. This centralized UI helps provide admins with the information they need to act on multiple levels, and offers them the ability to take deeper dives by clicking into intuitive windows, modules, and additional tools.
Standardize data storage and management across vendors
Between physical storage and cloud services, organizations have a variety of choices when it comes to how they store their data. While some teams might opt for a single type of storage solution, most organizations take a hybrid approach with a mix of hardware and software. However, because this hybrid approach involves assets from various manufacturers and vendors, executing a data storage management strategy to unify all these components can be challenging.
With the data storage management solutions in SolarWinds SRM, admins can use the same tool to monitor and control storage devices and systems from multiple vendors. This also helps admins pinpoint and resolve performance bottlenecks and allocate resources more effectively across their storage environment.
Fix data storage management issues before they affect users
Data is a precious resource for teams at every level of an organization. If workers face delays when trying to access critical data, they’ll likely have a difficult time carrying out their responsibilities and delivering value to the organization as a whole.
SRM data storage management software can help admins ensure end users don’t encounter these kinds of performance issues with the ability to receive real-time, web-based alerts when customizable threshold values of key metrics and storage assets are approaching critical levels. This visibility helps admins intervene and reallocate data storage resources as quickly and efficiently as possible, so end users don’t face data access problems.
Use reports to gauge data storage and management performance
Effective data storage management requires allocating storage resources appropriately, which can be made easier with access and insights into information about the health of your data storage environment.
Storage Resource Monitor is built to generate out-of-the-box reports to provide admins with information on critical metrics, such as top 10 LUNs by latency, storage pool utilization, enterprise capacity summaries, and more. Armed with accurate, reliable reports, admins can make more informed decisions and improve their data storage strategies and performance.
Streamline data storage management with capacity forecasting
Even for organizations committed to responsible data storage management, predicting future usage can be challenging. Without planning ahead, it can be difficult to understand how to most effectively deploy available storage resources—and what new assets need to be onboarded.
With the automated storage capacity forecasting delivered by Storage Resource Monitor, admins can trace the relationships between applications, virtual machines, storage arrays, and more to gain insights into storage trends and prepare forecasts. This information can then be used to inform decision-making and resolve issues about reallocating resources before problems happen.
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What is data storage management?
Data storage management refers to how organizations manage, store, and access their proprietary data. Effective data storage management requires an understanding of storage hardware and software, the current capacity of these assets, current and future usage trends, and the availability of various types of data.
How does data storage management work?
Data storage management involves leveraging hardware and software assets to meet an organization's storage needs. This can include everything from prioritizing hot data over cold data, setting data retention policies, and managing storage assets including physical servers and cloud storage.
Data storage management involves monitoring assets such as physical servers, storage arrays, and cloud storage services to provide admins with the information they need to make key decisions, including reporting on current capacity and monitoring for potential bottlenecks and other issues degrading the end user experience. Armed with this information, admins can reallocate storage resources as necessary to ensure end users have reliable and productive experiences accessing the data they need.
How data storage management works is different from one organization to the next, and can be affected by factors such as the industry in which an organization is operating. For example, organizations operating in the healthcare sector face strict regulations in terms of how they store and secure patient data.
What are the functions of data storage management?
While the particulars of data storage management may vary from one organization to another, the functions of data storage management are almost always the same. Among other things, these functions include prioritizing how data is stored on an organization’s systems. Information critical to the day-to-day functioning of an organization will need to be readily available to workers whenever they need it, whereas data that’s valuable but not necessarily leveraged on a daily basis can be stored with lower priority.
How do storage management tools help with data storage?
Storage management tools help with data storage by enabling admins to allocate resources across multi-vendor storage assets as needed. These tools help ensure data storage processes follow established organizational hierarchies designed to make data as accessible as possible for team members.
Storage management tools provide admins with visibility across virtualization and application layers, allowing them to maintain a comprehensive understanding of how storage assets are performing in their environment. Storage management tools also make it possible for admins to oversee every stage of the data storage lifecycle, from initial categorization to long-term retention policies.
Data storage management solutions should include the ability to alert admins when additional data storage is needed, and provide them with the ability to change the way data is stored to ensure end users have a seamless experience. Data storage management software must also include reporting and forecasting capabilities with in-depth analysis on key metrics to help admins accommodate both current and future data storage behaviors across the organization.
What is data management software?
Data management software provides admins with the tools they need to optimize organizational data storage policies. Data storage management software can allow admins to monitor the performance of storage assets through a centralized dashboard.
Data storage management solutions can allow admins to manage the overall health of their data storage environment, adjust the policies governing where data is stored, how it’s stored, and how long it’s stored, and address other key aspects of the data storage management process. Data storage management software will also provide insights into capacity risk, hardware health, and hotspot detection to make it easier for admins to determine where their attention is needed most.
How does the data storage management solution work in Storage Resource Monitor?
The data storage management solution within Storage Resource Monitor is built to unify multi-vendor storage assets into a singular, comprehensive monitoring system. The software is built to collect data storage information across devices to provide admins a centralized dashboard, affording them the all-in-one visibility they need to make more informed decisions, resolve bottlenecks, and optimize performance.
With Storage Resource Monitor, you can use out-of-the-box reporting on system capacity, automate storage capacity planning based on current data storage usage, set thresholds to trigger alerts when various assets are approaching capacity, and more. These tools are all available within an intuitive user interface. SRM is designed to help users better manage data their storage policies and performance.
What is data storage management?
Data storage management refers to how organizations manage, store, and access their proprietary data. Effective data storage management requires an understanding of storage hardware and software, the current capacity of these assets, current and future usage trends, and the availability of various types of data.
Track, optimize, and troubleshoot data storage management
Storage Resource Monitor
Monitor your entire data storage environment in an easy-to-use, consolidated dashboard.
Gain the requisite insights to resolve bottlenecks before issues affect end users.
Streamline data storage allocation across multi-vendor assets with the use of a single tool.
