To effectively maintain storage related service levels and protect against disasters or outages companies must effectively predict, evaluate and control the growth of data. Storage Resource Management software such as IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC); provides a comprehensive storage infrastructure management suite in a single integrated package. TPC is an enterprise wide open system storage infrastructure management solution. Approved by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) TPC focuses on improving storage capacity utilisation, administration efficiency and reducing effort and cost.

The ability provided by TPC to manage, monitor and evaluate storage fabric, disk, data and replication operations provides an end to end, consolidated view and point of control for the entire storage infrastructure, including the advanced features of disk subsystems and SAN fabric switches. Instead of numerous vendor specific tools to manage SAN fabrics and storage subsystems, TPC reduces the number of tools storage administrators require to a single common user interface. The Topology Viewer and Data Path Explorer tools provided by TPC display at a glance analysis of attached storage and maps the paths from host server to destination storage devices (including IBM tape libraries); this provides storage administrators with a detailed graphical representation of host storage allocation and includes analytical overlays to automatically pinpoint performance bottlenecks or highlight configuration issues.

The autonomic nature of TPC reduces the time storage administrators spend diagnosing and resolving storage related problems, allowing them to pursue other strategic business objectives. When integrated with IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager based alerting and automated storage provision provide self healing and configuration capabilities maintaining application availability without manual intervention.

Reducing the amount of data a company stores in backup media and therefore reducing timescales for backup and more importantly, recovery, can be achieved automatically by integrating TPC with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. TPC initiated archives move obsolete data from disk to tape, saving costs, while TPC can report on and automatically backup files not protected by IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

Comprehensive reporting and policy violation alerts allow IT departments to “Chargeback” storage resources to other areas of the business providing much needed finances for accurately predicted future growth.

Elyzium is able to:

• Design and implement a scalable, flexible, best practice Total Storage Productivty Center solution around your company requirements.
  
  
• Provide support, maintenance, analysis and upgrades for existing Total Storage Productivity Center solutions.
  
  
• Provide health check services to ensure that your company objectives continue to be achieved.
  
  
• Develop integrated cross brand IT solutions featuring a rich portfolio of IBM \Tivoli products to provide real business benefits.