Putting All Your Ducks in a Row

Storage management covers the key aspects of enterprise management of storage resources and the components involved, both on premises and in hybrid clouds and multiclouds, including functions for resource provisioning, process automation, load balancing, capacity planning and management, predictive analysis, performance monitoring, data replication, compression, deduplication, snapshots, and cloning. Other tools include services for cloud storage and container management systems such as Kubernetes and the like. In contrast, storage resource management (SRM) is a sub-aspect of enterprise storage management. From direct-attached to fabric-attached storage, SRM is typically more closely tied to deployed storage hardware, whether in the form of software-defined JBODs (just a bunch of disks) or self-contained intelligent storage arrays and subsystems. SRM also applies to hyperconverged environments and computational storage systems. Accessing Data A data-centric approach is increasingly…