The new service is designed to enable government CIO’s and IT departments to assess exact storage capacity in their enterprise datacenters and determine if those assets are deployed optimally.
Third party datacenters are used by many public sector enterprises as a way of outsourcing storage, and are bound by service level agreements on price, performance and availability. CreekPath said its new service will offer compliance information and tools that will help organizations monitor these agreements. It will also provide an overall assessment of an enterprise’s entire storage investment.
Most CIO’s and IT leaders can assess the performance of most business critical systems and easily ensure SLA compliance, but few have the ability to assess their storage system performance and utilization, said Michael Koclanes, chief technology officer at CreekPath. The idea of under-utilizing any IT asset would seem counter-intuitive, but many large enterprises have limited visibility into optimizing their storage allocation, so this service is designed to give them that.
