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Experts say SRM is a key ingredient to any storage management recipe. SRM can help centralize storage, leverage skills of admins, and help keep business goals in check. This Featured Topic looks at the SRM slice of the market and ...
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Plugging the SRM holes

(30 Jul 2002)

To manage storage experts say you need a central view of what your entire storage topology looks like. SearchStorage expert and Evaluator Group partner Randy Kerns spent some time at the recent DCI Storage Management summit talking about storage resource management (SRM) and where it stands today. Randy answered a few questions about how SRM will centralize storage, how it will better leverage skills of administrators, and help keep business goals in check. But, Kerns also tells us holes need to be filled before a complete SRM answer is brought to market.

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NEWS:
>> Plugging the SRM holes (SearchStorage) 30 Jul 2002
>> Storage vendors team up to host multi-city SRM seminar tour (Enterprise Storage Forum) 24 Jul 2002
>> Astrum seals a pair of SRM deals (SearchStorage) 11 Dec 2001
>> New players enter SRM market (InfoStor) 12 Jul 2001
>> Storage management is elusive, but not impossible to grasp (SearchStorage) 18 Oct 2001
>> Storage management saves time on backups (SearchStorage) 09 Oct 2001
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>> Michele's picks on SAM, SRM and SAN management information
TIP :SearchStorage Sr. Site Editor Michele Hope has a starter research list on storage area management (SAM) and provisioning.
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ASK THE EXPERTS :I'm looking for an SRM solution for an IBM and Brocade SAN. It needs to only perform end-to-end monitoring and performance ...
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TIP :WQuinn has been acquired by Precise Software Solutions. What are the implications of this merger?
>> Where to start with storage management
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