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term goals such as planning for future growth and storage purchases, and implementing
appropriate policies and reporting to ensure storage use remains efficient.
2.3.1 Improving storage return on investment
Tivoli Storage Resource Manager can improve the storage return on investment by:
Delaying purchases of disk - After performing housecleaning, you can satisfy the demand
for more storage from existing (now freed-up) disk. Depending on your particular situation,
you may not need to buy more disk for 6 to 24 months.
Lowering the storage growth rate - Because you now are monitoring and keeping better
control of your storage according to policies in place, it should grow at a ...