An interesting thing happened this year – an aspect of our business reversed… For years, the bulk of our discussions with customers has been about NTP Software QFS®. QFS provides a structural solution for managing file data. QFS users can set policies that govern the use of their resources. These policies can be both hard (an absolute rule) and soft (warnings, but not prohibitions). But in the majority of situations, QFS users set hard policies. Part of the value proposition for QFS is that it will automatically control what is allowed to go on in your environment.

However, these days it seems that many people have been taken by surprise by the need to manage their storage. Now, all of a sudden, they view storage management as something that has to be addressed immediately – not tomorrow, but today – but they don’t know where to start.

As a result, the character of our conversations has changed. What people want to talk about is no longer about implementing structural solutions, rather we’re talking more and more about how to gather the information necessary to decide what to manage and how to manage it.

The good news is that the applications that can show you where you stand and what your issues may be are non-invasive and easy to implement. You can gather data today, make decisions tomorrow, and start taking action the day after. If you find yourself in a storage management crisis, it only needs to last a matter of days. A non-structural, non-invasive solution is easy to implement and it will provide answers and direction in just a few days.

When it comes to storage management, there is no need to suffer. You can start making progress as soon as the day after tomorrow…

Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:39:34 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)      Comments [0]  Observations | Storage Management