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Three or four years ago keynotes and announcements at VMworld were all about cool server tricks. Today, as VMware seeks to be an infrastructure cloud platform, servers are just one layer in the infrastructure cake of the "virtual data center."

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) controls the flow of data through a system, managing it from creation, to long-term storage, to eventual destruction. Use ILM to maximize the efficiency of storage resources at the lowest cost, at every...

A Data Protection and Recovery Management (DPRM) solution provides visibility into backups that goes well beyond standard pass/fail reporting. It can be delivered stand alone but has also found its way into backup/recovery and Storage Resource...

Computer Associates BrightStor SRM is a full featured SRM product that provides all the key SRM functions of monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on storage utilization across heterogeneous storage infrastructures. This competent and competitive...

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) segments SRM into three separately deployable modules for "disk", "data", and "fabric" providing some flexibility for installation. IBM also offers a "free" limited version of TPC, TPC Limited Edition,...

Northern Parklife's Northern Storage Suite is attractive to enterprises that have identified rampant growth in unregulated unstructured files as their number one pain point in storage management. Northern is a leader in the quota management...

NTP Software will be a more attractive option for enterprises focused mainly on the quota management aspect of Storage Resource Management (SRM). A veteran player in the storage file/quota management, NTP has more recently branched out to...

With Veritas CommandCentral Storage, Symantec has a full-featured Storage Resource Management (SRM) package that covers all of the SRM bases of functionality at competitive prices. Symantec has a depth of features and breadth across...

With solid customer and revenue growth, Tek-Tools has emerged as a strong contender in the Storage Resource Management (SRM) tools market. Strengths of Tek-Tools include a modular approach and competitive pricing. Enterprises can build their SRM...

EMC ControlCenter Storage is focused on providing a single pane of glass view of all storage and storage devices to lower management costs and provide the basis for enterprise wide information lifecycle management. EMC is the leader in the...

From topology visualization and reporting through provisioning, capacity management, and quota management, HP Storage Essentials covers all the Storage Resource Management (SRM) bases. In 2005, Hewlett-Packard acquired App/IQ ? an early SRM...

Storage Resource Management (SRM) aspires to help the enterprise achieve critical storage management goals across large and complex storage infrastructures. The critical goals of any storage management solution are the efficient allocation and...

With rampant data growth and pressure for legal and regulatory compliance, failure to act on a storage management strategy exposes the enterprise to wasted investment and increased risk. The term "storage management" encompasses a number of...