EMC Consulting’s Business Intelligence for Storage puts in place a business intelligence system that extends your storage reporting and management systems. We add the ability to perform key performance indicator (KPI) reporting, analytics, and alerting of storage performance and capacity.

Optimizing and maintaining the right balance of equipment, planning new purchases, and determining when to consolidate, virtualize, or migrate requires the analysis of vital SAN performance and inventory data. Unfortunately, many reporting and monitoring systems that collect this data don’t provide the analytical functionality needed to make these decisions accurately and in a timely fashion.

Using Microsoft SQL Server and PerformancePoint Server, EMC Consulting integrates capacity-planning data with inventory-performance data from your SANs. We create a multi-dimensional ‘cube’ to analyze performance and capacity data over time. We add KPI-based trend analysis and forecasting capabilities that measure data collected against your business goals.

Data can be viewed in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server-based dashboard that provides the ability to identify an issue at a glance, drill down into the problem to ascertain a root cause, and spot trends.

EMC Consulting improves decision-making with real-time visibility into your infrastructure. We help you:

• Proactively identify issues.
• View combined SAN inventory with performance metrics.
• Better allocate storage to business units.
• Receive outage notifications immediately

Make faster decisions with accurate, up-to-date information.