Payless Shoe Source: The Challenges of Storage Management

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Payless Shoe Source The Challenges of Storage
Management

• Chapter 13
• Case 2

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Storage Management

• E-commerce and E-business applications is growing
  at a rapid rate - thus, storage management has
  become a necessary part of IT management.
• Ineffective management of storage unnecessarily
  drives up administrative costs and increasing
  storage problems.

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SAN - Storage Management

• SANs put storage on a separate network, where it
  can be centrally managed and accessed by multiple
  servers.
• SANs give you a framework for storage
  management, but they dont make storage
  management inherently easy.

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Payless ShoeSource Inc.

• Practice management controls management
  functions.
• CA - Vantage storage management software used to
  manage its mainframe, Windows NT and AIX server
  storage.
• Storage Manager used to back up its NT and AIX
  servers and storage array to the mainframe, which
  transfers it to backup tapes.
• Reduces the requirement for storage
  administrators.
• Ability to reallocate capacity among different
  applications.