Re: Potential New Storage Management Software Product

I think your question is being put to people who likely couldn't care less. This is something to be directed to sysadmins.

I, for one, couldn't care less how space is maanged as long as I get everything I want and the sysadmins stay out of my way and don't do stupid things like insisting on RAID5.

Daniel Morgan

Art wrote:

> HI...I am a research analyst, trying to understand market
> demand for a potential new product. This product would be
> targeted at system adminstrators in medium and large
> enterprises, who were maintaining storage for large databases
>
> I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SELL! THIS IS A PURE RESEARCH PROJECT!
>
> My question: Would you have interest in a software product
> that allowed you to manage ALL Networked Attached Storage
> Devices (NAS)and Direct Attached Storage (DAS)? This product
> would provide the following features:
>
> a. Single global view that spans vendors, technology, and
> geography
> b. Scale storage seamlessly with no down time through policy
> driven capacity management.
> c. Manage multiple heterogeneous systems. This includes all
> NAS and DAS storage, regardless of vendor.
> d. Enable this management via a web based console and single
> tool set.
> e. Distribute load over entire storage system through
> automatic and dynamic load balancing and tunable caching
> f. Management reporting system to insure storage allocation
> matches business priorities
> g. Automatic policy driven replication of critical information
>
> Pls post replies to this group or send mail to art_at_artclark.com
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Art
Received on Mon Feb 18 2002 - 12:00:36 CST