Aptus Solutions can provide specialized requirement definition and implementation for a Storage Resource Management (SRM) solution, with specification of policy based events in order to reduce network storage admin. SRM ensures that storage capacity is available when and where it's needed by actively managing your storage space with powerful visualization tools.

The implementation and configuration of a SRM solution by Aptus will simplify the availability, visibility and control of information storage to hosts. This will allow companies to automate management processes and monitor all network storage events in real time, in order to enable rapid identification and diagnosis of problems. This can be supported with a Baseline Configuration capture and comparison in order to pinpoint changes which may be contributing to the impact of inappropriate changes made to Storage Area Networks (SAN).

VisualSRM software is specifically designed to provide centralized Storage Resource Management (SRM) for multi-vendor, mid-tier storage environments. With VisualSRM, you can manage utilization according to thresholds set by you and deploy active policies to meet the demands of your critical business applications including MS Exchange and SQL Server, Sybase, and Oracle databases.

The overall benefits realized with a VisualSRM solution are typically;

• Tracking of capacity utilization trends
• Shortening backup windows so that more work can be done in less time
• Improve capacity planning and chargeback capabilities
• Monitoring potential degradation of devices and error statistics
• Prevent server outages due to out-of-control disk space consumption

• Manage more storage with the same or fewer resources
• Represent the complete path, including fabrics, switches, ports, between a storage system and host.

• View device relationships and hierarchies from a host and storage-system point of view.