Availability - Storage Management Brick

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Description

Availability - Storage Management is collecting and correlating performance, event and availability statistics to predict and, thus, avoid potential downtime for storage subsystems.

Based on information from Gartner research and NIH experiences, the ESM Domain team decided to determine strategic vendors for NIH at a future time. However, tactical deployments of vendors for SAN management, storage resource management, provisioning, hierarchical storage management and storage policy management have
been identified below.

Brick Information
Tactical (0-2 years)	Strategic (2-5 years)
Custom Shell Scripts EMC Control Center Sun Enterprise Backup System SysEdge Concord Tivoli Storage Manager
Retirement (To be eliminated)	Containment (No new development)

Baseline (Today)	Emerging (To track)
Custom Shell Scripts EMC Control Center Sun Enterprise Backup System SysEdge Concord Tivoli Storage Manager	Other leading or innovative network management products such as Veritas

Comments

Additional strategic tools will be determined after elements to be monitored are defined in the ESM process design and implementation efforts.
Tactical and strategic products were selected to leverage NIH's investment in products that are a proven fit for NIH's known future needs. Leveraging baseline products in the future will minimize the operations, maintenance, support and training costs of new products.
Some baseline products have been designated retirement and containment. These products are either not as widely or successfully deployed at NIH, or they do not provide as much functionality, value, or Total Cost of Ownership as the selected tactical and strategic products.