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organized by location, departments, or any other logical business unit. This
summarized information enables you to assess trends in your storage environment,
which you can then analyze to assign responsibility.
If you are a storage administrator, you can use Enterprise Reporter to identify
capacity trends, review storage inventory, and determine how much storage costs
per business unit. With this information in hand, you can promote storage
accountability and drive down costs.
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Report types and scopes
Use Enterprise Reporter to answer questions like:
■ Which applications are growing out of control?
■ What will my tier 1 storage growth look like in 2008?
■ How is capacity trending in North America versus Europe?
■ How is storage allocated in the finance department?
■ Which department is taking up the most percentage of tier 1 storage in the
Toronto data center?
Storage administrators and business users operate Enterprise Reporter with
CommandCentral Storage. Where CommandCentral Storage provides storage
reporting for a single data center and is used at an operational level, Enterprise
Reporter allows you to aggregate storage information from multiple data centers
and view storage assets by a variety of business dimensions. For example, if you
are a business information executive, you could use Enterprise Reporter to identify
the trend of unclaimed tier 1 storage in your New York and Zurich data centers.
You could then ask the storage administrators at each site to use CommandCentral
Storage to drill down to the details of which arrays or LUNs are unclaimed.
21Getting started with the CommandCentral family
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