To our way of thinking, tape environment management should be much more than reactive failure analysis. Proactive management can be constructed around answering a number of critical questions:
-- Can alerts that are the results of degraded performance or serious error conditions be reviewed properly so that corrective action can be taken? If not, backups may not complete correctly and critical restores could fail.
-- Can the interaction between a drive and tape cartridges be examined to determine the root cause of a problem? If so, this can resolve a major source of administrative headaches.
-- Are tape drives performing efficiently? A simple question whose answer is critical, since inefficient performance could lead to unnecessary high failure rates.
-- Are tape drives being utilized effectively? Overused tape drives can have high failure rates while underused drives result in a waste of scarce IT budget dollars.
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