Eliminating Storage Head-aches through Self-management

The complexity of managing storage is growing rapidly as the storage attached to distributed computing systems gets larger. This has reached the point where the cost of managing a device is several times the purchase cost, and the planning for a medium-to-large installation can require many months. Many system managers will try just about anything to avoid adding new devices to their system because of the reconfiguration effort. We expect these trends to get worse. The introduction of