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4.2.1 Business purpose of IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager
The primary business purpose of Tivoli Storage Resource Manager is to help the
storage administrator keep data available to applications.
Through monitoring and reporting, Tivoli Storage Resource Manager helps the
storage administrator prevent outages in the storage infrastructure. Armed with
timely information, the storage administrator can take action to keep storage and
data available to the application. Tivoli Storage Resource Manager also helps to
make the most efficient use of storage budgets ...