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CommandCentral 4.1 Business Benefits

CommandCentral 4.1 provides a single interface for management of physical infrastructure across heterogeneous OS's and arrays, improving utilization, streamlining delivery, and aligning resources with business needs. It simplifies management processes, improves visibility and accountability, automates service delivery, and enables business alignment.

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CommandCentral 4.1 Business Benefits

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  1. CommandCentral 4.1 Business Benefits

  2. CommandCentral Value Simplify Management • Single interface for physical infrastructure management across heterogeneous OS’s & arrays Improve Utilization • Reports & monitors allocation and consumption, provides visibility from application to array Streamline Delivery • Reduces errors and inconsistencies by providing policy-based automation Align Resources with Business Needs • Enables delivery of automated services

  3. Day-to-Day Pain Points Business Application Requirements Cost/Risk of downtime & data loss Rapid data/storage growth Operational (IT) Poor utilization Limited resources Many points of failure Too many tools Inconsistency Not enough time Etc… IT Initiatives Cost Reduction Initiatives Infrastructure Inventory Reclaim Wasted Storage Tiered Storage Migration/Consolidation Financial Planning… Service Improvement Initiatives Single Point of Control Administrator Productivity Standardize Processes SLA Scorecard Pain In The…

  4. Responding to Initiatives

  5. SIMPLIFY MANAGEMENT

  6. What Do I Have? • Centralize Management • Auto discovery & inventory of environment • Wizards • Monitoring • Policies • Tools

  7. IMPROVE UTILIZATION

  8. How Is IT Running? • Visibility • View storage usage, backup/restore jobs across enterprise • Track disk, media and tape drive usage and availability • Identify consistent problems • Plan for new purchases

  9. Where Did My Money Go? • Accountability • How much spent & how using? • Track array capacity and allocation • Reporting both logical (Volume Manager) and physical (array based) storage allocation and consumption

  10. STREAMLINE PROCESSES

  11. How Is IT Automated? Service Delivery Service Definition Approval, Provisioning, Automation • Self-service request portal for storage/backup/restore services • Automatically add/remove clients from VERITAS NetBackup and provision storage to hosts • Customizable workflow approvals and notifications • Track status of requests • Optimize workflows over time

  12. BUSINESS ALIGNMENT

  13. Business Views and Alignment • “Business Views” by Line of Business, Department, Geography, etc. • Create “portals” for various business groups & present filtered service dashboard • Rate per cost center / time • Bill, trend, forecast • Measure service levels around utilization, time to provision

  14. Summary Simplify Management • Single interface for storage and backup management • Heterogeneous hardware and software support • Fewer tools to navigate and master Improve Utilization • Report and monitor storage and backup infrastructure • Visibility from application to spindle • Maximize current resources Streamline Delivery • Define services • Standardize processes • Reduce errors Align Resources with Business Needs • Assign resources to business level ‘Views’ • Define user based roles to applicable business units • Report and chargeback based on usage

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