No information technology (IT) infrastructure resource is as essential to ensuring business performance and productivity as storage. Processes for data access, distribution, and protection are directly impacted by the configurations of storage arrays, SAN fabrics, NAS systems, backup and disaster recover (BDR) devices, and hosted cloud storage solutions. Recognizing the importance of these resources but lacking visibility into their functional performance, most organizations overprovision storage solutions in order to ensure business requirements are continuously met. Storage Intelligence solutions provide key insights into the entire storage ecosystem, enabling informed decision making on improving service performance and reliability, the proactive identification of potential problems and identifying opportunities for reducing the cost of operations.  

In order to help organizations determine the most effective storage intelligence solution to meet their unique business requirements, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has identified the nine leading platforms and performed a side-by-side comparison to determine their product strengths and cost efficiencies. Evaluated solutions include: