When a thin LUN is destroyed, its allocated capacity is automatically reclaimed to the pool.

When a thin LUN is created, physical storage is fully allocated for it

Once a thin LUN is created it cannot be destroyed until all data is deleted from it

When a thin LUN is destroyed, its allocated capacity is reserved until an administrator reclaims it

Uses APIs to integrate multivendor resources into the SDI environment

Optimizes resource usage and generates value reports about the SDI environment

Provides a control point for the entire SDI environment

Provides multitenancy that enables consumers to share resources in the SDI environment

30.12%

33.34%

58.33%

66.67%

Maintaining day-to-day contact that consumers’ needs are met

Designing, planning, managing, maintaining, and supporting the cloud infrastructure

Understanding consumers’ needs and industry trends to drive an affective product strategy

Streaming service delivery and execution, and handling early warnings for service issues

Ensure compliance to industry standards

Enable capacity and availability management

Perform market research and collect information about competitors

Collect information about cloud services and their constituent elements

Understand what consumers ' needs and industry trends to drive an effective product strategy

Creating detailed designs for the cloud infrastructure.

Streamline service delivery and execution.

Understand service needs of LOBs, determines which needs are good candidates for CSP, and also works with service managers

Enhances competitiveness

Removes dependency on IT completely

Eliminates CAPEX

Removes dependency on service provider

Increasing number of end user devices and different access points

Bypassing of internal IT and looking elsewhere for IT services

Lack of cloud extensibility inside an organization

Aging facilities, and outdated policies and technology

Encryption-based authentication

Anomaly-based intrusion detection

Multi-factor authentication

Signature-based intrusion detection

Determine if the capacity of IT services can deliver the agreed upon service levels

Identify requirements and ensure that the appropriate services are provided

Identify accurate information for all operational services

Determine what the sufficient capacity is to meet business demand