Creating Your Storage Management Plan

You will have many issues to address when you create your storage management plan. Enterprise-size organizations should consider creating a storage management team to identify data storage needs and to create associated plans. Some organizations might find that the issues in this chapter are best addressed by a variety of teams, such as a backup and recovery team; a data management team; and a team handling storage issues. Each team begins by assessing the storage requirements of your organization and by creating a storage management strategy.

To help you create a storage management plan, consider using the steps shown in Figure 19.1.

Figure 19.1 Process for Developing a Storage Management Strategy