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Storage Service Management (SSM) is rapidly revolutionizing storage management by enabling IT organizations to manage storage as a service. But how are SSM applications different from more traditional storage resource management (SRM) applications?
SRM applications provide a device-centric view of the storage environment. Storage Service Management (SSM) applications provide a service view of the storage environment. To accomplish a service view of the storage environment, SSM applications have a fundamentally different architecture and a different approach to the management disciplines.
The result is that the business benefits from the two approaches are actually different.
