Originally posted by: bobby_g

Optimize your storage infrastructure with data driven insights!

IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights is an analytics-driven, storage resource management solution that is delivered over the Cloud. The solution uses the #IBMCloud technology to provide visibility into on-premise storage – with the goal of helping clients optimize their storage environments in today's data-intense world.

This SaaS solution running on #IBMCloud can deploy in as little as 5 minutes and show actionable insights in 30 minutes. IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights  is now available on IBM Marketplace.

"IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights deploys very quickly from the cloud, and the browser-based tool is extremely easy to use." - - Bob Oesterlin, Senior Storage Engineer, HPC Grid, Nuance Communications

"Generating storage optimizing recommendations with Storage Insights is fast and as  simple as install, point, click, go!" - - John Sargent, Technical Support Specialist, Blue Chip Customer Engineering Ltd

Here are some features and benefits:

• Improve Capacity Planning – takes the guess work out of capacity planning with increased visibility into data growth rates and available capacity
• Increase Storage Utilization – delays future purchases by identifying and reclaiming provisioned, but unused, storage
• Optimize Data Placement – reduces costs by up to 50% by moving data to the most cost-effective storage tier with analytics-driven data management
• Enhance Performance Monitoring – eliminates service disruptions due to lack of available storage
• Simplify Reporting – deliver a consumer-oriented view of storage by reporting on storage by departments or applications

The IBM Storage Insights dashboard, provides a quick glimpse into your storage capacity trending – including block, file and object storage systems.  The dashboard also provides visibility into cost saving opportunities resulting from reclaiming idle storage and optimizing data placement by tier.

There’s a bunch of other views available within IBM Storage Insights – including performance monitoring and utilization, reporting by department and applications, device specific views, and more. Within each view you can dig as deep as needed to resolve issues and optimize efficiency.

The best part is that the initial insights that are revealed are just the beginning; Storage Insights learns more about your environment with every scan, so it continuously delivers additional budget saving recommendations.

New #cognitive capabilities available!

In the very latest update of IBM Storage Insights, you can monitor the basic health, capacity, and performance of IBM block storage systems from a single pane of glass.

And if a problem is detected, you can get help to investigate and troubleshoot the problem, and minimize the impact of hardware and software issues before they affect the performance of your critical business applications. See Simplified support through a single pane of glass in IBM Storage Insights.

See this VIDEO to learn more about IBM Storage Insights that is designed to provide an unparalleled level of visibility to help you manage today’s complex storage infrastructures.

See this VIDEO on performance monitoring for IBM Storwize V7000 storage systems that includes control time range, drill down on specific storage system, best practice comparison, performance views of internal resources like Volumes, Pools, Disks, Ports and more. Also, multiple metrics: drill down and across the system, how to export info to Excel and performance by related resources.

See the IBM Storage Insights product page for more details.

See this insight report: Evaluator Group: IBM Spectrum Control™ Storage Insights Enables Broader Use of Storage Resource Management

Checkout the documentation for IBM Storage Insights  in the  IBM Knowledge Center.

For continuing information on Storage Insights or IBM Spectrum Control, follow me, Bob Graczyk, on Twitter, @bobby_gratz or Linkedin.