-We see the hardware side evolving with more of a focus on interoperability, and mass storage turning into more of a commodity item," revealed Venkat Subbarao, senior VP, South and Southeast Asia for Computer Associates
He sees storage management as part of a greater set of comprehensive e-business solutions that manages e-business, whether as an individual solution or integrated into an end-to-end product offering.
And CA differentiates itself further by offering a broad, integrated suite of management solutions that is simply called -3 x 6", addressing the areas of e-business process management, e-business information management; and e-business infrastructure management.
Across these three strategic categories are six key solution areas, which are Enterprise Management, Security, Storage, e-Business Transformation and Integration, Portal and Knowledge Management and Predictive Analysis and Visualisation.
Hence, he views storage as a critical corporate asset, where e-businesses (he meant companies) should focus more on what is stored, how to protect and manage it, and the best ways to extract value from it.
This means organisations must consider:
- How to align a storage strategy with business process, now and in the future
- Standardisation, ensuring they keep the number of storage system and device vendors to a minimum
- Consolidation, which is combining data as much as possible
- Distribution of storage where it is needed the most
- Control through policies and procedures that provide best practices for both users and the IT department
- Contingency and crisis planning
- Storage management software that lets the organisation put minimum resources to managing the storage while integrating it into the entire e-business process.
