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American Megatrends Releases StorTrends

iDATA IT Infrastructure Assessment Tool

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dentifies Performance, Capacity and Connor, founding analyst, SSG-NOW. “Are you IT environment for seven days. Once complete, StorTrends iDATA tool quickly pointed out the
Throughput Needs to Proactively Make considering SSDs in an All-Flash or Hybrid the tool produces an analysis output file to IOPS, active data and throughput requirements
Informed Storage Decisions Storage Array? How much hot data or active data generate a report that provides important metrics within our infrastructure to be better prepared
Free Analysis Application Provides an do you have within your existing environment including capacity utilization, IOPS usage, reads to get the most of our storage investment,” said
Accurate View into IT Environments’ Pain and how much SSD or Flash space do you need? versus writes for volumes, network bandwidth Phil Blakely, Network & Systems Administrator
Points to Eliminate Bottlenecks and Avoid Over- Don’t worry, most IT Directors and IT Admins performance, server statistics and application at Restaurant Technology, Inc. “As a result we
provisioning of Costly Storage Resources
American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) announced don’t know the answer either. The StorTrends iDATA tool is a free and powerful way to answer information. The resulting metrics can be used to accurately develop a short and long-term storage are planning to implement another StorTrends SAN Array knowing that we can maximize its
the release of the StorTrends iDATA (Intelligent this question and many more. It provides the key strategy with heightened confidence.
performance and leverage the exact amount
Data Analysis Tracking Application), a free details organizations need, such as the amount StorTrends iData Identifies Customers of flash capacity we need to optimize our
software tool designed to provide an accurate of IOPS a SAN requires, the environment’s IT Infrastructure Problems for Proactive applications and support our customers. It
assessment of IT infrastructure performance, expected growth rate, and the amount of hot Resolution and Planning
removed the guesswork and gave use the
capacity and throughput requirements. By data or active data - to more accurately achieve Restaurant Technology, Inc. (RTI), a confidence that we needed to select the proper
measuring all of the necessary components of an your storage goals and eliminate the need to technology leader in restaurant food and labor SAN configuration for our requirements today
IT infrastructure, the StorTrends iDATA tool can overprovision costly storage resources.”
costs savings, StorTrends iDATA provided the and for the future.”
assess pain points in an environment before they The StorTrends iDATA software tool runs, valuable insight it needed to optimize its storage Active Data Identification/Hot Data - the
become disruptive and provide the details needed non-intrusively, in the background of an existing
capacity and performance planning. “The
StorTrends iDATA tool can identify the active
to make informed storage decisions.
or hot data within a customer’s environment. Active Data Identification/Hot Data - the StorTrends iDATA
“Our research finds that one of the key reasons This allows the customer to make an educated
storage installations fail is that IT administrators purchase of higher performance drives, such as tool can identify the active or hot data within a customer’s
lack the accurate information needed to
SSD/Flash or SAS. This allows the customer to environment. This allows the customer to make an educated
properly provision the performance, capacity avoid costly over provisioning (which is what
and throughput the environment requires to purchase of higher performance drives, such as SSD/Flash or SAS.
deliver optimum storage efficiency,” said Deni
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