Create a smarter storage strategy

By F5 | Jun 7, 2012

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As file data continues to grow at a rapid pace, businesses are looking for more ways to cut their storage costs and lighten the management burden on IT. But where should IT departments begin? Even for those with experience in storage, the market presents an overwhelming array of choices in terms of both technologies and vendors. Instead of starting with potential solutions, it’s important to first develop an understanding of your company’s data storage requirements—not only as they are today but also in regard to how they are expected to change over time.

To achieve this level of understanding, you must monitor your company’s file storage environments over time, tracking which kinds of files are being created, why they are being created, who is creating them, how old they are, and how much storage capacity they consume. Using this information, you can create a smarter storage strategy that uses business value as the barometer by which to match your data to storage with the appropriate performance, availability, and cost. The result is a storage infrastructure that addresses your business needs, and does so at the lowest possible cost.

This paper explores why it is important to have deep insight into your file storage environment, and offers tips on how to develop a storage strategy that best meets your organization’s needs. It also considers how storage reporting and capacity forecasting tools from F5 Networks® can help you create a smarter storage strategy by automating the critically important but time-consuming process of data capture and analysis.

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