This article discusses storage analytics. It is written for IT planning and strategy professionals, as well as operations people, interested in developing storage analytics.
The article is stuctured to explain what storage analytics are, why they are important, how they are used, the business impacts of using storage analytics and advice on how to best develop storage anaytics.
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What are storage analytics?
Storage analytics defines the relationship between captured metrics and best practices in storage management that act on that data. This page is dedicated to the implementation of a world class storage reporting and analytics capability with the objective of creating a repeatable, documented process for monitoring storage infrastructure to support applications.