1. 1. Be confident that your Chargeback reports are accurate and always available
1.1. Demonstrate that all storage assets have been allocated
2. Determine Backup Job Success Rate
2.1. 1.1 Determine Backup Job Success Rate
2.1.1. Identify Decommissioned Backup Clients
2.1.2. Identify Data Spikes
2.1.3. Identify False-Positive Backup Clients
2.1.4. Identify 4
2.1.5. Identify 5
2.1.6. Identify 6
2.2. 1.2 Consolidate All Backup Solutions
2.2.1. Establish Project Objective
2.2.2. Establish Project Scope
2.2.3. Map Requirements
2.2.4. Map Solution
2.2.5. Map Training Requirement
2.2.6. Review Project Scope
2.3. 1.3 Project Schedule and Budget
2.3.1. Determine Project Approach, Stages and Steps
2.3.2. Estimate Project Duration
2.3.3. Establish Resource Requirements
2.3.4. Prepare Project Schedule and Budget
2.3.5. Prepare Work breakdown structure
2.3.6. Document Success Criteria
2.3.7. Review Project Schedule
2.4. 1.4 Project Organization
2.4.1. Identify Project Resources
2.4.2. Recruit Project Steering Committee
2.4.3. Recruit Project Coordinators
2.4.4. Identify / Recruit Key Stakeholders
2.4.5. Determine Training Requirements
2.4.6. Map the Project Organization Chart
2.4.7. Review Project Organization
3. Consolidate Management of All Storage
3.1. Consolidate reports and dashboards for a unified view of heterogeneous storage.
3.1.1. Find underutilized hosts and identify reclamation opportunities to improve ongoing utilization rates.
3.1.1.1. Avoid emergency purchases by accurately predicting when additional storage will be needed.
3.1.1.2. Identify underutilized (Dark) storage
3.1.1.3. Set thresholds and receive alerts before you have an issue.
3.1.2. Identify re-tiering opportunities.
3.2. 2.3 Quality Control
3.2.1. Identify the fastest growing storage type by group, application, server, or department.
3.2.2. Find trending and manage by exception with Executive/LOB/Admin level dashboards.
3.2.3. Quickly find the root cause of storage performance issues with drill down capability.
3.2.3.1. Avoid emergency purchases by accurately predicting when additional storage will be needed.
3.3. 2.4 Progress Control
3.3.1. Update Project Schedule
3.3.2. Improve budget forecasting with easier and more accurate reporting.
3.3.3. Continuously monitor allocated and actual storage usage to quickly identify problem areas.
3.3.4. Accurately view and analyze usage by application, host, and array.
3.3.4.1. Optimize your application storage
4. Generate Audit/Compliance Reports
4.1. 3.1 Establish Folders for EOM/EOQ/EOY Static Reports
4.1.1. Prepare Product Evaluation
4.1.2. Conduct Product Evaluation
4.1.3. Initiate Maintenance Process
4.2. 3.2 Another example
4.2.1. Prepare for Project Closure Meeting
4.2.2. Conduct Project Closure Meeting
4.2.3. Follow Up Project Closure Meeting
4.3. 3.2 Process Improvement
4.3.1. Prepare Project Review
4.3.2. Conduct Project Review
4.3.3. Implement Process Improvement