If you are like most IT Managers, you rarely have visibility into which business units are using storage assets and how to prioritize that usage to improve the efficiency of your storage, data and back-up environment.  Often you are forced to spend countless hours extracting usage information from multiple management tools – an inefficient process that is not scalable for large deployments.  IBM Novus™ Storage Enterprise Resource Planner (SERP) software automates this process, delivers scores of customizable reports, and scales to some of the largest storage infrastructures in the world.

An IBM GTS Storage Optimization and Integration Services - global insight, powered by the IBM Novus™ Storage Enterprise Resource Planner (SERP) software brings business intelligence to the storage realm, enabling you to gain valuable insight into how your business units are using storage assets.

IBM Novus SERP software pulls data from storage resource management (SRM) tools and correlates it with your asset management systems, enabling you to determine which business units’ data can be migrated to less expensive storage and which business units would be impacted by a storage consolidation or an upgrade effort.

IBM Novus SERP software also helps you determine if there are opportunities to reclaim storage and if your storage capacity is being managed appropriately, thereby helping you to reallocate existing storage rather than incurring the capital and operational expenses of acquiring new assets.