Storage Performance Management (SPM)

Enterprise storage environments are quickly growing in size, cost, and complexity. The processes and solutions used to manage the performance of enterprise storage, however, have not matured accordingly.  

 

One symptom of this lack of storage performance management maturity is the inability to easily see how the storage hardware is performing.  Storage systems are often a "black box" that requires specialized, vendor specific tools and personnel. 

 

In order to manage the risk associated with this lack of storage system insight, organizations often over-spend on storage hardware hoping to avoid painful IO service time impacts.  Unfortunately, overspending on hardware still leaves applications vulnerable to performance impacts due to imbalance and a lack of visibility. 

 

These issues create a dependency on storage hardware vendors for both problem resolution and storage sizing.  And they create a reactive process for this mission-critical part of the IT infrastructure.

 

Many organizations use Storage Resource Management (SRM) tools, but their primary focus is to manage storage space. Any performance reporting that SRM tools include is typically at the symptom, not the root cause level, and does not include early warning or predictive modeling insight. 

 

IntelliMagic's Storage Performance Management (SPM) suite on the other hand, provides a new level of visibility to efficiently manage storage performance. This ensures that business applications receive the required performance service levels without overspending on storage hardware. Should performance problems arise, the root cause can be quickly identified and addressed.

 

This visibility into current and future I/O performance enabled by the IntelliMagic suite provides significant financial benefits. Download the IntelliMagic Suite from our Product Literature page.

 

What is a definition of SPM?  SPM is a set of processes designed to ensure that applications receive the required service levels from storage systems while storage assets are efficiently used. See more about SPM with these resources: