Storage Management Software

Best Storage Management Software include:

Cisco UCS Manager, Arcserve Backup, AWS Storage Gateway, NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software, Cyberduck, SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM), IBM Storage Insights, IBM Spectrum Virtualize, IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift and OpenText Storage Manager.

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Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco UCS Manager supports the entire Cisco UCS server and Cisco HyperFlex Series hyperconverged infrastructure portfolios. It enables server, fabric, and storage provisioning as well as, device discovery, inventory, configuration, diagnostics, monitoring, fault detection, auditing,…

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AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway hybrid cloud storage connects on-premise resources to the AWS Cloud and integrates with AWS storage and archiving services to create a backup and recovery solution.

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IBM Storage Insights

IBM Storage Insights is a storage management application designed to support capacity planning, increase storage utilization, and provide performance monitoring.

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Arcserve Backup

Arcserve Backup is a storage management solution from Arcserve, formerly of CA Technologies before Arcserve's divestiture (July 2014). It utilizes magnetic tape storage backup as part of its storage management offering.

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Cyberduck

Cyberduck is an open source libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows developed by Iterate, with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox.

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NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software

NetApp's ONTAP Data Management Software is a storage and data management and protection solution. ONTAP 9 allows users to build an intelligent hybrid cloud that is the foundation of a NetApp Data Fabric that spans flash, disk, and cloud. Flexibly deploy storage on a choice of…

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SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is a data center performance monitoring solution from Austin-based company SolarWinds. It features a unified data storage management system with end-to-end monitoring and automatic capacity forecasting.

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Foglight

Foglight is a database performance management suite from Quest, with modules to perform cloud analytics, network performance monitoring and virtualization management, scaling to a broad, cloud / virtualization focused IT infrastructure monitoring solution.

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Paragon Hard Disk Manager

Paragon Software headquartered in Irvine offers Paragon Hard Disk Manager, a storage management solution for physical and virtual drives, and disaster recovery framework solution for businesses of all sizes.

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OpenText Storage Manager

User and group file system management for Open Enterprise Server networks, formerly from Micro Focus and now from OpenText. It allows automated, policy-based management of OpenTextâ„¢ Open Enterprise Server network file systems and user group storage. For Active Directory systems, Storage…

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IntelliMagic Vision for SAN

IntelliMagic Vision is multi-vendor SAN performance, capacity, and configuration analytics solution that uses domain specific artificial intelligence as well as statistical analysis to accurately assess the health of your VMware, Fabric and Storage infrastructure in order to proactively…

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Panzura CloudFS

Panzura is a cloud backup solution from the company of the same name in Campbell, California.

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Rocket Servergraph

Rocket Servergraph enables users to automate daily backups and get prioritized real-time alerts on server capacity across data environments. The vendor emphasizes Servergraph’s ability to simplify audit and compliance reporting, including customizable reporting by geography, application,…

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IBM Spectrum Control

IBM Spectrum Control supports a wide range of storage systems, software-defined storage and storage area networks (SAN) devices with monitoring, and provides a central console to manage storage infrastructure.

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Dell Storage Resource Manager

Storage Resource Manager (SRM) from Dell was built to manage the complexity of growing, heavily virtualized storage environments. With SRM, users obtain detailed relationship and topology views from the application, to the virtual or physical host, down to the LUN to identify service…

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Veritas NetBackup IT Analytics

NetBackup IT Analytics, from Veritas, delivers unified backup and storage insights for heterogeneous IT environments across on-prem and cloud services. It helps users to gain actionable insights through a single-pane of glass for enterprise data wherever it resides. It is based on…

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Hitachi Command Suite

The Hitachi Command Suite is an open source storage management option, from Hitachi Vantara.

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Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)

Hitachi Vantara offers the Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS) as a virtualization management solution.

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IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift

IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides the infrastructure foundation and storage orchestration for a full-platform on-premises hybrid multicloud environment that supports CSI. IBM now supports CSI for its block and file storage families so you can improve container…

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IBM Spectrum Virtualize

IBM Spectrum Virtualize supports provides data storage security and control across hybrid environments.

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Dell VPLEX

Dell VPLEX aims to maximize the returns on investments in all-flash infrastructure or hybrid arrays by providing continuous availability to business-critical workloads. VPLEX also creates a flexible storage architecture designed to gives IT teams the agility they need to respond…

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Weka.IO

WekaIO headquartered in San Jose offers their file system and storage management platform, for multiple storage workloads, supporting AI and computationally intensive workloads and applications.

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Lustre

The Lustre file system is an open-source, parallel file system that supports many requirements of high performance computing (HPC) simulation environments.

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Synology Active Backup Suite

Synology Active Backup Suite is software that allows users to consolidate backup tasks for physical servers, file shares, virtual machines, and SaaS applications. It also allows users to replicate and archive data to remote servers or public cloud and can rapidly restore files, entire…

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Netvault Backup

Netvault Backup is backup and recovery software from Dell, based on technology obtained via that company's acquisition of BakBone Software in 2011.

Learn More About Storage Management Software

What is Storage Management Software?

Storage Management Software (sometimes Data Storage Management Software) gives a unified overview of managed arrays to ease and facilitate control of the individual arrays and the entire data center, private cloud, or the virtualization services for which they're being used. Storage management solutions also help backup storage systems and aid in disaster recovery. As businesses use more storage solutions, a storage management solution becomes necessary for supporting all of them from a single software for visibility and management.


A common use of storage management software is to optimize storage usage, so less important data, or data that doesn’t need high performance storage can be moved to cheaper storage options. In this way, storage management software options help businesses make their storage solutions more affordable over a long period of time.

Storage Management Software Features & Capabilities

Storage Management solutions provide a variety of features, some of the most common are as follows:

  • Data management

  • Storage Provisioning

  • Storage Solution backup

  • Storage Solution Visibility

  • Virtualization and replication

Storage Management Software Comparison

When purchasing a storage management software, you should consider the following aspects of each option:

  1. Supported Storage Systems: Some storage management software options are built to support vendor specific storage tools. If all of your storage solutions are provided by one vendor, you should see if that vendor also offers a storage management solution. In contrast, if your storage architecture is highly varied, be sure to select a tool that can support your architecture.

  2. Analytics features: Many storage management software options provide visibility into your storage solutions and analytics on their performance, while others focus more exclusively on storage optimization. If your business values analytics and visibility, be sure to choose a storage management software that provides sophisticated analytics options.

  3. Virtualization options: Most storage management tools offer support for virtual drives, but many are specialized in that area. If your business virtualizes a large amount of storage, you should choose a storage management software that specializes in virtual drives.

Storage Management Software Pricing

Storage management software pricing is highly dependent on what features are included in the product. Additionally, many storage management tools are included in larger suites of products that either provide storage, or support monitoring systems. Despite this variance, businesses should expect to pay at least $300 per year for a storage management tool.


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Frequently Asked Questions

What businesses benefit the most from storage management software?

Storage management solutions are most popular with mid-sized businesses and larger enterprises, but storage management solutions are beneficial for any business using multiple storage solutions, particularly virtualized storage. The more complex the storage architecture, the more a business can benefit from a storage management tool.

What are the best storage management tools?

Some of the highest rated storage management software options are as follows:

  1. Arcserve Backup
  2. Cisco UCS Manager
  3. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

Do all storage management solutions support all storage options?

Most storage management options offer support for the most common storage types, including physical and virtual drives. Some storage management solutions specialize in supporting specific tools, for example, some focus exclusively on managing virtualized storage. Some options also support only storage options from a particular vendor.

Do storage management solutions replace the need for a disaster recovery tool?

There are a few management solutions that provide sophisticated disaster recovery features and may be able to replace a dedicated disaster recovery tool. For most storage management solutions, a disaster recovery tool should still be used to secure valuable data.