Storage Management - a topic that engenders a lot heat in the industry but is yet to be really adopted by the SMB market.

The Fortune 500 all do storage management - not the way the would like to yet since SMI-S is still in its infancy but they do it. More on that latter …

The SMB market has yet to seriously consider the effect of doing good storage management on their business. There are a lot of tools out there to do mirroring, replication, backup & restore, lifecycle management, etc., but little in the way of comprehensive management of storage.

HP has ‘rasied the flag’ with the acquisition of AppIQ - storage management is considered to be a strategic part of the storage sale and a way to gain market share.

Microsoft is entering the fray with the VDS/VSS initiatives.

All this points to the fact that storage management needs serious consideration in your business to remain competitive.

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