TeraCloud Storage Analytics: The Power of Knowledge

TeraCloud Storage Analytics:
The Power of Knowledge
By Dallas Stewart - VP Product Management
TeraCloud Storage Analytics: The Power of Knowledge
Contents
TeraCloud Storage Analytics for Storage Management..............................................3
TeraCloud Storage Analytics for Strategic Outsourcing..............................................5
TeraCloud Storage Analytics for Sales Teams ...........................................................7
Sample DataSet Report ..............................................................................................9
Sample Best Practices ..............................................................................................10
Sample DFSMShsm Analysis ...................................................................................11
Sample Tape Reports ...............................................................................................12
Sample Reports.........................................................................................................13
About Us....................................................................................................................14

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TeraCloud Storage Analytics for
Storage Management Storage spawns where it is needed. This leaves IT to manage many islands of storage devices scattered across the enterprise. Compliance requirements, multimedia-rich applications, unstructured content and a proliferation of databases are pushing IT departments to increase the size and complexity of their storage networks. All of this is occurring at a time when the need for centralized storage management has never been greater.
Business Challenge The storage market is chock-full of powerful technologies provided by a number of different companies. Many of their products have been acquired by your organization during the last two years. As a result, one of the biggest problems related to storage management today is that every storage tool comes with a separate management console that needs to be mastered. This means that storage management team members are drowning in a sea of training manuals and the process of documenting simple tasks is becoming more complex and a never-ending chore.
Since the inception of the storage resource management (SRM) market, organizations have sought to identify opportunities to maximize their storage assets. What has been lacking is an efficient means to know how to optimize storage assets. Recently, the industry has refocused its interests in dealing with this shortcoming due to the critical nature of data storage.
Solution To address this gap in the storage market, TeraCloud developed the TeraCloud Storage Analytics (TSA) product to provide an analytic solution that improves decision making for storage management. With this capability, storage managers now have a reliable, cost effective, scaleable analytical tool for managing storage assets across the entire enterprise from a single view.
Within an 8-hour window following installation, TSA enables users to search, identify patterns and relationships of data usage amid massive quantities of information. Armed with this information, storage managers can now develop innovative solutions and solve strategic and operational problems.
Value Benefits our Customers experience from TeraCloud Storage Analytics (TSA):
` Utilization baseline - TSA identifies performance improvement opportunities by quickly analyzing usage at the device and data usage levels ` Operational efficiencies - TSA isolates areas where corrective action can improve throughput, offering storage managers an effective means to produce value for their customers by reducing operating costs and/or optimizing storage assets
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` Valuable insight - for meeting data growth challenges, while driving down operational expenses year over year by optimizing current storage assets ` Validation process - knowing the storage environment is operating within your storage parameters ` Reporting - The information gathered is online for quires or can be exported to an Excel spreadsheet for furth... [download for more]