In today's economic climate, government agencies need a smart strategy to meet the challenge of shrinking IT budgets. While much is uncertain, one thing is clear: the government will continue to generate data. Agencies can expect to manage up to 60 percent more storage in the coming year and to do so with smaller budgets.

Only Symantec‘s software-led, hardware neutral approach helps government agencies eliminate the hidden costs in storage environments.

Data Center Optimization - Archiving for Optimization

A recent State of the Data Center Report found that storage needs are growing fastest for e-mail, collaboration data and file archiving. With unstructured information consuming a large percentage of an organization's storage, it is important to classify data, including information from messaging, file servers and collaborative systems, onto different tiers of cost-effective storage and into an archive. Archiving is critical to storage-tiering practice allowing you to move less-frequently used information from high-cost disk and archive to lower cost storage while maintaining accessibility. Symantec's archiving solutions automate retention and storage of e-mails, files, instant messages and other unstructured content in accordance with your IT policies. Benefits include reducing your data footprint, improved performance and scalability, greener IT, and increased end-user productivity.

Data Center Optimization - Storage Management

A recent State of the Data Center Report found that many organizations' storage hardware operates at 30-40% utilization. Despite this under utilization and increasing budget cuts — the first response to resolving storage capacity issues is to purchase new storage hardware. As a result of this quick-fix approach to storage management problems, organizations are buying storage they don't need. With 50% or more available storage capacity, a little education and the right tools, organizations can optimize their existing systems and extend their useful life for a year or more without having to purchase new storage hardware.

If your organization's need for data storage is outpacing your budget and ability to optimize existing storage capacity—Symantec can help you standardize and automate the management of heterogeneous storage platforms.