Storage Capacity Management

We’ve been posting some interesting articles on storage and storage issues from a capacity perspective on our social media this week. A link to all the articles is at the bottom of my blog if you’d like to read them for yourself.

With the advent of Cloud, Virtualization and Big Data, there’s no doubt that storage, how it performs and its capacity is becoming ever more crucial to organizations. Big Data analytics for example, depend on high performance. To be cost effective it requires commodity infrastructure provided as cheaply as possible. DAS, SAN and NAS are all viewed as costly and not quick enough. SSD and SATA will become the norm. Having enough resource but not too much for a workload that can vary dramatically over time will be critical for cost containment.
Effective capacity management has always been the way to provide adequate capacity for your company at controlled costs, both now and in the future. With the complexity of infrastructure nowadays that means looking at performance and capacity across the whole range of platforms, applications and devices. Storage becomes an ever more vital part of that picture.
At Metron we’ve long been exponents of 360°Capacity Management: looking at performance and capacity challenges from all possible angles. So it’s no surprise to us that you need to bring storage data in to your CMIS. It needs evaluating alongside all the other metrics you should be capturing, both business and technical, along the length of the application chain, across all services. 360°Capacity Management provides great ways of helping you do just that.

We’ve got an informative webinar coming up tomorrow which will look at the key storage metrics you should be capturing and why, to enable you to get that cost/service balance right.

We like to categorize it as prevention and cure. It covers what to look at to make sure storage problems rarely occur –prevention. Any medical man will tell you that prevention is never 100% guaranteed, so we’ll also cover metrics you need to watch to identify problems when they occur, so you can cure them.

http://www.metron-athene.com/services/training/webinars/index.html

Rich Fronheiser

Chief Marketing Officer

Links to articles featured on our Social media

http://www.informationweek.co.uk/storage/systems/cloud-storage-infrastructures-raise-many/232600705

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/video/Server-virtualization-issues-contribute-to-data-management-complexity

http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/converged_storage-virtualization-converged_infrastructure-virtual_machine_performance-thin_provisioning,2-242.html