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There are two basic approaches to assessing your customers' data storage growth rates, and which one gets used will depend on how big that customer is. Storage resource management tools are the path of least resistance for companies that can afford it. Manual techniques, while not as quick or foolproof, do offer benefits to service providers. Get tips for assessing historical data storage growth rates in this installment of our Hot Spot Tutorial on storage capacity planning services.
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Predicting data storage growth
If your customers have deep pockets, predicting data storage growth is a relatively easy chore using storage resource management (SRM) tools. But for smaller companies with equally small budgets, you'll need to be more...
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