Organizations today face unprecedented challenges in managing storage.

These include, but are not limited to:

• Heterogeneous storage environments and the resulting challenge of having management tools from multiple vendors.
• Proliferation in the options for networked and channel-based storage protocols.
• Centralized and decentralized physical locations and the associated operational challenges.

Today’s rapidly changing business climates are increasing the pressure on IT organizations to deliver the right information, to the right place, at the right time.
The new regulations and compliance requirements dictate more stringent guidelines for the availability of information, recovery, retention, security, and privacy of data.