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Reduce organizational and architectural complexities by implementing consolidated storage management by HEMANT KURANDE, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, STORABILITY SOFTWARE E x e c u t i v e O v e r v i e w It is an accepted fact that companies today spend significantly more money managing their storage infrastructures than they do acquiring the technology itself. The actual numbers are up for debate, with storage vendors claiming management-to-acquisition cost ratios as high as 10 to 1, while industry analysts like Gartner peg it at a more conservative 3 to 1. Regardless of which estimate is correct, there is widespread agreement that storage management costs are too high, and climbing higher. The root causes of today’s unmanageable storage environment are the architectural and organizational complexities that have naturally evolved over time as storage demands increased and storage technology grew more powerful. The Architecture