Managing Virtualized Storage Environments with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Data is designed to
provide:

1. Automated identification of the storage resources in an infrastructure and analysis of how effectively those resources are being used.

2. File-system and file-level evaluationuncovers categories of files that, if deleted or archived, can potentially represent significant reductions in the amount of data that must be stored, backed up and managed.

3. Automated control through policies that are customizable with actions that can include centralized alerting, distributed responsibility, and fully automated response.

4. Ability to predict future growth and future at-risk conditions with historical information.