Storage Resource Management

In computing, Storage Resource Management (SRM) involves optimizing the efficiency and speed with which a storage area network (SAN) utilizes available drive space.^[1]

Data growth averages around 50% to 100% per year. Organisations face rising hardware-costs and the increased costs of managing their storage. Storage professionals who face out-of-control data-growth are looking at SRM to help them navigate the storage environment. SRM identifies underutilized capacity, identifies old or non-critical data that could be moved to less-expensive storage, and helps predict future capacity requirements.

SRM has evolved beyond quota management. As of 2012 it includes functions such as storage area network (SAN) management.

Providers of SRM solutions include:

NetApp OnCommand Insight (OCI^[2] - formerly known as Onaro SANScreen). Customers world-wide have been using OnCommand Insight for ~ 13 years now to manage their heterogeneous storage environments. OnCommand Insight helps large enterprise-customers manage capacity, performance, forecasting, and multi-tenant billing in traditional and cloud environments. Operations teams use Insight for their day-to-day storage operations and to manage risk associated with managing mission-critical storage environments. With a flexible and massively scalable architecture, Insight brings the best of traditional resource management features along with the ability to monitor, report on and bill in private cloud, hybrid-IT and rapidly transforming storage environments.
Symantec
Northern Parklife
IBM (Tivoli Storage Productivity Center)
EMC Corporation

References

↑ SearchStorage.com Definitions. “What is storage resource management.” Retrieved September 9, 2009.
↑ Preimesberger, Chris (2015-11-18). "Cirba Connects to EMC ViPR to Fix Storage Inefficiencies". eWeek (QuinStreet Inc.). ISSN 1530-6283. Retrieved 2016-02-11. The new connection to EMC adds to Cirba's existing support for storage resources managed by NetApp OnCommand Insight (OCI), which was announced in August.

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