Symantec Delays Storage Capacity Upgrades

By Greg McNevin

December 18, 2008: In the face of exponentially expanding storage requirements, Symantec is telling its customers to “stop buying storage”, saying that its Veritas CommandCentral storage resource management (SRM) suite can help put off increasing capacity.

Taking a leaf out of Salesforce.com’s “stop buying software” marketing book, Symantec’s new slogan supports upgrades to its Veritas CommandCentra SRM software, which has seen the company add agentless and change management functionality, aimed at helping enterprises cut cost and complexity while rapidly identifying and correcting problems.

Symantec claims that its SRM suite can improve storage utilisation by up to 40 percent, which in turn cuts IT spending by up to 10 percent. Symantec says that it does this by providing a centralised, policy-driven approach to managing storage changes and configuration drifts, minimising application downtime by measuring the impact of infrastructure changes, and decreasing the time required to resolve problems, benchmarking customer environments against industry best practices to identify hidden risks, and enabling collaboration between storage and server teams to troubleshoot issues.

The software will not stop the ever-increasing need to buy storage, but Symantec says that it will help slow this problem, particularly in the short term.

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