| Storage Resource Management (SRM) is the fastest growing segment of the storage software market. In this report, ESG Lab examines the EMC SRM application, ControlCenter. Without robust SRM capability, ESG estimates the time and people required to manage storage is from 4 to 7 times more than the price of the storage hardware and software combined. SRM solutions provide storage administrators a suite of tools and applications to automate storage management functions including monitoring, reporting, managing, configuring, and provisioning storage whether in SAN, NAS or direct attach configuration |