Automate tasks to reduce cost and complexity
IT groups are spending more and more of their time managing the storage, protection and movement of their data. Information is expanding in quantity, variety and importance to the business – and so is the storage infrastructure.

StorageTek can help you more effectively manage data throughout its life, reducing the cost and difficulty in managing increasingly complex storage infrastructures.

Applications for managing data
Application	Primary performance measures	StorageTek offerings
Storage optimization	Storage efficiency Backup/restore success rate Available capacity Storage cost per gigabyte	Storage optimization services
Data management	Data availability Access time Average cost per gigabyte Recovery time Administrative cost	Application Storage Manager (ASM) software® Email management
Backup and recovery management	Time to backup Time to restore Capacity Asset utilization	VERITAS software Legato software
Operations management	Capacity utilization Operating cost Service level attainment Staff levels Problem resolution time	Multi-vendor product support Storage management Global Storage Manager software