The future of storage management today

With the need to deploy more storage to cope with these escalating requirements, it is all too easy to lose focus on the original reason for implementing that technology - to deliver on business requirements.

The surplus of storage manifesting itself in order to serve growing user demands and the demands of business applications will continue to escalate until organisations find ways to minimise the effort and resource to manage IT environments. VERITAS is making that possible.

The goal of the perfect storage management model is to reduce administrator intervention to a minimum so that management bring their attention back to delivering appropriate service levels to the business rather than getting bogged down in the day-to-day fire fighting that overwhelms many IT operations.

Therefore, systems are needed that can automate laborious tasks so that IT professionals can monitor and proactively manage storage of data. Systems then manage the flow of data right across the IT environment and intelligently make full use of all the resources to provide the appropriate type of storage where and when it is needed.

At VERITAS we have been working long and hard at delivering a comprehensive set of tools that span hardware, application and operating environments. VERITAS now offers a common set of storage management technologies that provide IT professionals with tools to administer storage intelligently.

As the leaders in clustering technology, virtualisation, and backup and recovery, VERITAS already offers CIOs the choice to select any combination of hardware vendor in their enterprise environment. We have also given organisations the ability to provide the right copy of data based on the service level demands of the business.

If storage is to become a utility VERITAS is singularly well placed to provide organisations with intelligent ways of tracking and controlling the flow of information. The answer lies in providing an interface between the storage architecture and the business's requirements. To help organisations understand where technology resides and which benefits the technologies provide back to the business, VERITAS has created a unique model known as the "VERITAS Adaptive Software ArchitectureTM".

The VERITAS Adaptive Software ArchitectureTM manages what is most import to an IT environment: applications, data and storage to ensure the business drivers can adapt to every environment, every business priority, and are resilient to system failures, human error, disasters, or dramatic changes in the business environment.

At VERITAS we are constantly building new technologies to help organisations cope with the intricacies of storage management. Our new Global Operations Management Software (available during 2003) will provide the link from the technology through the management to the business objectives.

The Global Operations Manager will give senior IT management the ability to see how the technology is impacting the efficiency of the business. It will help identify and prioritise problems and give the capability to make more effective business decisions. It will also reduce hardware spend through capacity planning, utilisation of physical storage assets and performance, giving a clear view of how the global storage infrastructure components are interacting and behaving.

With VERITAS you can be confident that whatever investment you have made in VERITAS today, you have already started putting the building blocks of the Adaptive Software ArchitectureTM in place and have taken the first steps on the road to getting the most out of your environment. The future of storage today is the foundation stones offered by VERITAS in the Adaptive Software Architecture.